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Robert Smith, a senior staff systems engineer at Northrop Grumman, noted that private industry has rapidly implemented ground enterprise capabilities in response to market forces.
Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems purchased the patent for extending the life of spacecraft in geosynchronous orbit from Dennis Wingo.
Northrop Grumman’s manufacturing facility at the Allegany Ballistics Laboratory uses lean manufacturing and digital engineering techniques.
Northrop Grumman anticipates launching a prototype in 2025 to demonstrate beaming radio frequency energy down to the planet.
On 2022-12-15, Northrop Grumman completed a successful demonstration of the ability to beam radio frequency energy toward various antennas by steering the beam.
Northrop Grumman completed ground-based tests to demonstrate critical technology required for a 2025 demonstration of space-based solar power.
Lockheed Martin selected Terran Orbital as its satellite-bus supplier for the Transport Layer Tranche 1, a much larger constellation being built by Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and York Space.
Northrop Grumman is developing the milli-Hemispherical Resonator Gyroscope (mHRG) to be featured in the new LR-450 Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) for smaller platforms requiring a lower-weight, lower-cost solution.
NASA’s Cassini mission to Saturn, launched in 1997, relied on Northrop Grumman SSIRU navigation to explore Saturn and several of its moons, including flybys of Titan and Enceladus.
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory awarded Northrop Grumman a $100,000,000 contract in 2018 to develop a payload to demonstrate key components of a prototype space solar power system.
Northrop Grumman’s hemispherical resonator gyros (HRGs) performed for more than 65 million hours in space in 2022 without a single mission failure.
James Webb Space Telescope’s sunshield was deployed and tensioned by testing teams at Northrop Grumman in Redondo Beach, California where final deployment tests were completed.
Northrop Grumman is manufacturing flight hardware to assemble a system that will be launched on the Northrop Grumman ESPAStar platform.
A Northrop Grumman SSIRU was on board NASA’s MESSENGER mission that launched in 2004 to fly by and photograph Mercury and later fly around Venus in 2006.
Northrop Grumman’s SSIRU will be carried aboard NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which is set to launch in May 2027 and will observe explosions caused by the collisions of dense, massive stars.
Northrop Grumman provided the twin five-segment solid rocket boosters for the Artemis I SLS rocket that delivered more than 75 percent of the rocket’s thrust at launch.
Northrop Grumman's SSPIDR team demonstrated the transmission of directed RF energy to a ground-based rectifying antenna (rectenna) in a test chamber in Baltimore.
Northrop Grumman’s Space Solar Power Incremental Demonstrations and Research (SSPIDR) Project is working on transmitting solar energy from space to Earth.
Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation will provide products and services required to monitor and maintain Webb spacecraft systems including the spacecraft bus, optics/telescope, and sunshield.
Work on the James Webb Space Telescope Phase E – Operations and Sustainment contract will be performed at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, and at Northrop Grumman’s facility.