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Northrop Grumman

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Falls Church, Virginia, United States
www.northropgrumman.com/
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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.

Mentioned as: northrop grumman corporationTechnical ProductNov 3, 2022Firefly Aerospace Names Former GE Senior Executive Dan Fermon as Chief Operating Officer

Under the contract with Northrop Grumman, Leidos will develop and build the sensor payload for a proliferated constellation of low Earth orbit satellites for the Tranche 1 Tracking Layer.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanOrg RelationshipNov 1, 2022Leidos selected by Northrop Grumman to supply sensor payloads for U.S. missile-tracking satellites

The LDPE-2 is the Long Duration Propulsive EELV Secondary Payload Adapter, a satellite bus manufactured by Northrop Grumman.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanOrg RelationshipNov 1, 2022SpaceX Falcon Heavy launches first U.S. national security mission

Northrop Grumman selected Leidos to supply infrared sensor payloads for the U.S. Space Development Agency’s missile-tracking satellite constellation in low Earth orbit.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanTechnical ProductNov 1, 2022Leidos selected by Northrop Grumman to supply sensor payloads for U.S. missile-tracking satellites

Leidos was one of four companies that competed in 2020 for a Missile Defense Agency contract to design a hypersonic and ballistic missile-defense satellite and lost the contract to L3Harris and Northrop Grumman.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanNarrative GeneralNov 1, 2022Leidos selected by Northrop Grumman to supply sensor payloads for U.S. missile-tracking satellites

Northrop Grumman won a $617,000,000 contract in July to produce 14 infrared-sensing satellites for Tracking Layer Tranche 1, a network of 28 missile-detecting satellites to be deployed by the U.S. Space Force’s Space Development Agency.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanOrg RelationshipNov 1, 2022Leidos selected by Northrop Grumman to supply sensor payloads for U.S. missile-tracking satellites

JPSS-2 is the first of three JPSS satellites built by Northrop Grumman under a contract awarded in 2015.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanOrg RelationshipOct 29, 2022Centaur issue delays JPSS-2 launch

The JPSS satellites use the latest version of Northrop Grumman’s LEOStar-3 spacecraft bus with a new avionics suite, new sensors, reaction wheels, and star trackers.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanOrg RelationshipOct 29, 2022Centaur issue delays JPSS-2 launch

Orbit Fab had previously raised a total of $17 million, including more than $10,000,000 in a September 2021 funding round that included Lockheed Martin Ventures and Northrop Grumman.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanOrg RelationshipOct 25, 2022Orbit Fab secures new investor to support satellite refueling efforts

Firefly Aerospace and Northrop Grumman Corporation entered a joint partnership to provide an American-built first-stage upgrade for the Antares rocket and to develop a new medium launch vehicle for commercial, civil, and national security space launch markets.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanNarrative GeneralOct 24, 2022Firefly Aerospace Adds Former NASA Administrator James Bridenstine to its Advisory Board

Northrop Grumman Corporation delivered the first two 63-inch-diameter extended length Graphite Epoxy Motors (GEM 63XL) to Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

Mentioned as: Northrop Grumman CorporationTechnical ProductOct 23, 2022Northrop Grumman delivers GEM 63XL solid rocket boosters for Vulcan’s first flight

Firefly and Northrop Grumman Corporation joined forces to provide an American-built first-stage upgrade for the Antares rocket and to develop a new medium launch vehicle for commercial, civil, and national security space launch markets.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanNarrative GeneralOct 20, 2022Firefly Aerospace Adds Chris Emerson, Longtime Aerospace Industry Leader and Former Airbus Executive, to its Board of Directors

Andrei Mitran, director of strategy and business development at Northrop Grumman, uses the term 'competimates' to describe other companies pursuing commercial space stations and advocates expanding the overall market to enable multiple companies to succeed.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanTechnical ProductOct 19, 2022Foust Forward | Hard choices facing commercial space stations

Mynaric will provide Northrop Grumman with optical communications terminals for 14 satellites as part of the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 1 Tracking Layer program.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanOrg RelationshipOct 18, 2022Mynaric’s optical communications terminals will provide Northrop Grumman with part of the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 1 tracking layer program

Mynaric will supply 42 CONDOR Mk3 optical communication terminals to Northrop Grumman for the Tranche 1 Tracking Layer program.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanOrg RelationshipOct 18, 2022Mynaric’s optical communications terminals will provide Northrop Grumman with part of the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 1 tracking layer program

Northrop Grumman and L3Harris Technologies are each building 14 prototype missile warning and missile tracking satellites for the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 1 Tracking Layer.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanOrg RelationshipOct 18, 2022SDA slide reveals Tranche 0 optical terminal manufacturers

The Space Development Agency selected Northrop Grumman as one of two prime contractors for the Tranche 1 Tracking Layer in July.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanTechnical ProductOct 18, 2022Mynaric’s optical communications terminals will provide Northrop Grumman with part of the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 1 tracking layer program

Northrop Grumman is integrating the Tranche 1 Tracking Layer with its Tranche 1 Transport Layer program.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanTechnical ProductOct 18, 2022Mynaric’s optical communications terminals will provide Northrop Grumman with part of the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 1 tracking layer program

Mynaric revealed plans on 2022-10-18 to provide optical terminals for the satellites that Northrop Grumman is building for the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 1 Tracking Layer.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanOrg RelationshipOct 18, 2022SDA slide reveals Tranche 0 optical terminal manufacturers

Parallax Labs leverages Northrop Grumman’s 60-year space heritage of designing, developing, delivering, and operating mission-specific space systems.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanNarrative GeneralOct 12, 2022Northrop Grumman Australia integrates end-to-end control segment into Parallax Labs
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