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The solar arrays provided by Northrop Grumman will power Airbus OneSat communication satellites operating in geostationary orbit (GEO).
Frank Slazer has held engineering and business development roles at Northrop Grumman, United Launch Alliance, and Boeing.
The Northrop Grumman solar arrays for OneSat are a 20 kW-class system that deploys over 18 m to provide spacecraft power.
Northrop Grumman will supply heat pipes for payload thermal management for the OneSat satellites.
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) was awarded a contract by Airbus Defence and Space to design, develop, and produce 24 ship sets of solar arrays for the OneSat satellite product line.
Northrop Grumman manufactured the propellant tank for the Delta IV upper stage roll control system at its Commerce, California facility.
Northrop Grumman produced 11 large composite structures for the ULA Delta IV Heavy, including three thermal shields, three centerbody structures, the payload fairing, the composite interstage on the center common booster core, the nose cones on the two strap-on boosters, and one set of X-panel structures.
Northrop Grumman designed and produced the nozzles for the three Aerojet Rocketdyne RS-68 engines and the nozzles’ thermal protection material and manufactured the nozzles at its Promontory, Utah facility.
Northrop Grumman manufactured the large-scale composite structures for the Delta IV Heavy at its facility in Iuka, Mississippi, using advanced hand layup, machining, and inspection techniques.
Northrop Grumman completed the preliminary design peer review of its PTS prototype in December 2020.
Northrop Grumman received the initial award for the Protected Tactical SATCOM program in February 2020 through the Space Enterprise Consortium.
A flight demonstration of Northrop Grumman’s Protected Tactical SATCOM payload is planned for 2024.
Boeing’s and Northrop Grumman’s payloads will be launched to space in 2024 on a military or commercial satellite for on-orbit demonstration.
The program office selected Boeing and Northrop Grumman to complete design, build, test, and ultimately launch two payloads for on-orbit demonstrations and residual operations.
The Space and Missile Systems Center on 2021-04-22 identified Boeing and Northrop Grumman as the only contractors advancing to the next phase of the PTS program.
The Space and Missile Systems Center awarded Boeing a $191,000,000 contract, Lockheed Martin a $240,000,000 contract, and Northrop Grumman a $253,000,000 contract in February and March 2020 to design prototype payloads for the PTS program.
Northrop Grumman is developing Mission Extension Pods (MEPs) using model-based systems engineering to provide life extension services to aging satellites.
Northrop Grumman Corporation and its wholly-owned subsidiary SpaceLogistics LLC completed docking of the Mission Extension Vehicle-2 (MEV-2) to the Intelsat 10-02 (IS-10-02) commercial communications satellite on 2021-04-12 at 1:34 p.m. EDT.
Northrop Grumman plans for the MRV to launch in 2024 to carry out repairs, provide in-orbit services, and relocate satellites.
Northrop Grumman released an image of Intelsat 10-02 taken by MEV-2’s infrared wide field of view camera from 15 m away.