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The LDPE-2 spacecraft on USSF-44 consists of an ESPAStar satellite built in Northrop Grumman’s Gilbert, Arizona satellite facility.
The Space Development Agency selected Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and York Space to each produce 42 satellites for the Transport Layer.
A Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo spacecraft arrived at the International Space Station on 2022-11-09 with only one of its two solar arrays deployed.
DARPA selected Northrop Grumman’s subsidiary SpaceLogistics as its RSGS partner in 2020.
A robotic arm developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency completed key tests and is on track to be integrated with a Northrop Grumman spacecraft and launch to geosynchronous Earth orbit in 2024.
Northrop Grumman increased the payload performance of the Antares launching the Cygnus by about 70 kg, which increased the cargo capacity of Cygnus by 20 kg.
A Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo spacecraft launched on 2022-11-07 on the next-to-last flight of the Antares 230+ rocket.
Northrop Grumman reported that Cygnus has sufficient power to rendezvous with the International Space Station on 2022-11-09, to complete its primary mission.
Northrop Grumman’s 18th cargo flight is the seventh mission performed under the company’s Commercial Resupply Services 2 contract with NASA.
NASA is evaluating whether it is safe for the Northrop Grumman Cygnus NG-18 cargo spacecraft to approach the International Space Station after one of two solar arrays failed to deploy hours after launch on 2022-11-07.
Northrop Grumman is working with Firefly Aerospace on the Antares 330, a new version of the vehicle that will replace the existing first stage with one developed by Firefly using new engines.
Northrop Grumman’s NG-18 mission will launch from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
Madison Square Garden Entertainment Corp. partnered with Nanoracks, LLC to send immersive camera equipment to the International Space Station on Northrop Grumman’s NG-18 Commercial Resupply Services mission.
Northrop Grumman launched an Antares 230+ rocket carrying the Cygnus spacecraft from Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Pad-0A at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on 2022-11-07.
After NG-19, Northrop Grumman plans to launch three Cygnus missions on SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets until the Antares 330 is ready.
The launch was originally scheduled for 2022-11-06 but was scrubbed about 15 minutes before liftoff because of a fire alarm at Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus mission control center in Dulles, Virginia, which was evacuated and could not support the launch.
Northrop Grumman achieved the Antares performance increase without changing hardware by refining vehicle performance models using data from six previous Antares 230+ launches.
Northrop Grumman assessed that the Cygnus had sufficient power to rendezvous with the ISS as planned early on 2022-11-09 to allow the station’s robotic arm to capture and berth it.
As Chief Operating Officer, Dan Fermon will execute the A330 stage 1 supply agreement and the MLV partnership with Northrup Grumman.
Firefly Aerospace announced a joint partnership with Northrop Grumman Corporation to provide an American-built first-stage upgrade for the Antares rocket and to develop a new medium launch vehicle (MLV) for commercial, civil, and national security space launch markets.