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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.
Northrop Grumman's Space Solar Power Incremental Demonstrations and Research (SSPIDR) Project is working towards transmitting solar energy from space to Earth.
In the interim during the Antares hiatus, Northrop Grumman will launch Cygnus missions on SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets from Florida.
Wallops currently hosts two Northrop Grumman Antares launches per year and an occasional Minotaur launch by Northrop Grumman.
Northrop Grumman agreed to buy at least three Falcon 9 launches to fly Cygnus cargo spacecraft as a stopgap between Antares retirement and a new version developed with Firefly Aerospace.
Northrop Grumman supplied twin solid rocket boosters that provided more than 75% of thrust at SLS launch and provided the abort motor and attitude control motor for Orion’s Launch Abort System.
York Space Systems, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman are each building 42 satellites projected to launch in September 2024 for Transport Layer Tranche 1.
Northrop Grumman built the EPS-R payloads at its Space Park campus in Redondo Beach, California.
Boeing’s and Northrop Grumman’s prototype PTS payloads will operate in geosynchronous Earth orbit to be compatible with military terminals that use stationary antennas pointed at GEO satellites.
Boeing and Northrop Grumman won separate 2020 contracts worth $191,000,000 and $253 million, respectively, to design PTS payloads.
Northrop Grumman’s Mission Extension Vehicles are extending the lives of two Intelsat satellites, IS-901 and IS-10-02, under five-year agreements that began in 2020 and 2021, respectively.
SpaceLogistics, Northrop Grumman’s satellite-servicing subsidiary, plans to send a Mission Robotic Vehicle to an Optus satellite in 2024 to install propulsion jet packs using a robotic arm.
DARPA partnered with SpaceLogistics, a Northrop Grumman company, in 2020 so SpaceLogistics would provide the spacecraft bus, launch, and operations in exchange for commercial use of the robotic payload on-orbit.
Northrop Grumman's NG-18 Cygnus spacecraft, launched 2022-11-07, failed to deploy one of its two solar arrays after reaching orbit.
Northrop Grumman provided hardware and software platforms on USSF-44 to deliver multiple missions for customers including highly complex payloads from multiple industry partners.
Northrop Grumman built JPSS-2 and holds contracts to build JPSS-3 and JPSS-4 to provide continuity for the JPSS program into the 2030s.
The LDPE-2 spacecraft on USSF-44 consists of an ESPAStar satellite built in Northrop Grumman’s Gilbert, Arizona satellite facility.
LDPE-2 was built using a Northrop Grumman ESPAStar bus which serves as a rideshare service for a variety of payloads.
The USSF-44 mission is one of several Northrop Grumman payloads set to launch through the end of 2022 supporting customer missions that span human exploration, scientific discovery, communications, and national security.
The JPSS satellites use the latest version of Northrop Grumman’s LEOStar-3 spacecraft bus with upgraded avionics, sensors, reaction wheels, and star trackers.