All verified mentions of this organization in source documents.
United Launch Alliance selected Orbital ATK as its exclusive supplier of solid boosters for the Atlas 5 rocket and for the Vulcan launch vehicle in 2015.
Northrop Grumman is the dominant player in the solid rocket market and is currently the only bidder for the $63,000,000,000 Ground Based Strategic Deterrent program.
Northrop Grumman’s Mission Extension Vehicle 1 launched in October and docked with the Intelsat-901 communications satellite in February, enabling a five-year extended lease on life for Intelsat-901.
Airbus Defence and Space planned to launch a satellite servicer shortly after Northrop Grumman launched MEV-1 but backed away from those plans two years earlier because of uncertainty about the commercial market.
SpaceX won one of three CRS-2 contracts in January 2016 alongside Orbital ATK (now Northrop Grumman) and Sierra Nevada Corporation to continue cargo deliveries to the International Space Station.
The 2021 budget includes $560,000,000 to continue funding public-private Launch Service Agreement partnerships signed in 2018 with United Launch Alliance, Blue Origin and Northrop Grumman.
United Launch Alliance, Blue Origin and Northrop Grumman are competing with SpaceX for Launch Service Procurement five-year contracts to be awarded in mid-2020 to two companies.
Northrop Grumman was the first company selected to build a Protected Tactical Service payload.
Lynk Global is testing a communications payload on the Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo tug that received FCC permission to remain in orbit until 2020-04-02.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency selected Northrop Grumman as its commercial partner for the Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites program on 2020-03-04.
The FCC approved Northrop Grumman’s license amendment request on 2020-03-03, and the NG-12 mission was extended through 2020-04-02 according to the request.
The NG-11 post-departure operations in 2019 included tests that demonstrated Northrop Grumman could operate two Cygnus spacecraft successfully after the November 2019 launch of NG-12.
Northrop Grumman’s SpaceLogistics division will provide the bus technologies it developed for the Mission Extension Vehicle.
Northrop Grumman’s Mission Extension Vehicle 1 launched in October 2019 and docked in orbit with an Intelsat communications satellite to extend the spacecraft's operation by five years.
Northrop Grumman was awarded a $253,000,000 contract for Protected Tactical Satcom payload development in the month before 2020-03-03.
DARPA selected SSL as its commercial partner for the RSGS program in February 2017 over competitor Orbital ATK.
Northrop Grumman completed a static fire test of the second stage of its OmegA rocket on 2020-02-27.
In October 2018, the U.S. Air Force awarded Northrop Grumman a $792,000,000 Launch Services Agreement to complete detailed design and verification of the OmegA space launch vehicle and launch sites.
United Launch Alliance, Blue Origin, and Northrop Grumman are pitching newly designed launch vehicles projected to fly for the first time in 2021 as part of the U.S. NSSL competition.
Northrop Grumman incorporated patented technology to avoid electrostatic discharges on orbit into MEV-1 after delaying its launch from 2018 to 2019.