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Northrop Grumman

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

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanOrg RelationshipFeb 26, 202020 space industry predictions for 2020

Northrop Grumman incorporated patented technology to avoid electrostatic discharges on orbit into MEV-1 after delaying its launch from 2018 to 2019.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanOrg RelationshipFeb 26, 2020Northrop Grumman’s MEV-1 servicer docks with Intelsat satellite

Northrop Grumman designed the MEV servicing spacecraft by combining its GEOStar communications satellite bus with elements of the Cygnus cargo tug.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanTechnical ProductFeb 26, 2020Northrop Grumman’s MEV-1 servicer docks with Intelsat satellite

Northrop Grumman’s Mission Extension Vehicle-1, launched in October 2019, is scheduled to dock with Intelsat-901 in early 2020 to extend the satellite’s life.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanOrg RelationshipFeb 26, 202020 space industry predictions for 2020

Northrop Grumman plans to move the MEV-1/Intelsat-901 stack into the geostationary arc so Intelsat-901 can resume service in late March 2020.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanOrg RelationshipFeb 26, 2020Northrop Grumman’s MEV-1 servicer docks with Intelsat satellite

Northrop Grumman is investing in people and facilities to meet the Air Force schedule of fielding GBSD in 2029.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanOrg RelationshipFeb 25, 2020Kratos, Bechtel join Northrop Grumman’s bid to develop future ICBM for U.S. Air Force

Northrop Grumman projected 15 to 20 GEO satellites could be ordered in 2020 because of replacement needs and influences from the U.S. C-band spectrum debate.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanOrg RelationshipFeb 21, 2020Geostationary satellite orders bouncing back

Space Norway competed its Arctic Satellite Broadband Mission among European and American manufacturers before selecting Northrop Grumman to build two satellites.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanNarrative GeneralFeb 21, 2020Geostationary satellite orders bouncing back

Intelsat is budgeting for five new satellites through 2022, including the already-ordered Galaxy-30 being built by Northrop Grumman and the Intelsat-40e under construction at Maxar Technologies.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanOrg RelationshipFeb 20, 2020Intelsat to FCC: C-Band Alliance is dead, we deserve more money

A Northrop Grumman Antares rocket launched a Cygnus cargo spacecraft on 2020-02-15 from Pad 0-A at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at 3:21 p.m. Eastern.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanOrg RelationshipFeb 15, 2020Cygnus launches to space station

Northrop Grumman used technicians who work on other vehicles at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California to accelerate preparations for the NG-13 launch.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanOrg RelationshipFeb 15, 2020Cygnus launches to space station

On 2020-02-12, the U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center selected Northrop Grumman as the first vendor to build a prototype payload under the Protected Tactical Satellite Communications (PTS) program.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanOrg RelationshipFeb 13, 2020Northrop Grumman to develop jam-resistant payload for U.S. military communications satellites

Northrop Grumman developed the AEHF payloads under contract to Lockheed Martin, the AEHF prime contractor.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanOrg RelationshipFeb 13, 2020Northrop Grumman to develop jam-resistant payload for U.S. military communications satellites

Northrop Grumman was awarded a $253,500,000 contract by the U.S. Space Force to develop a cyber-secure communications payload that could be deployed on a military or commercial satellite.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanOrg RelationshipFeb 13, 2020Northrop Grumman to develop jam-resistant payload for U.S. military communications satellites

A Northrop Grumman Antares rocket was scheduled to launch the NG-13 Cygnus mission from Pad 0-A at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Wallops Island, Virginia at 5:39 p.m. Eastern on 2020-02-09.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanNarrative GeneralFeb 9, 2020Cygnus launch to ISS scrubbed as NASA considers schedule changes for future cargo missions

L3Harris Space and Airborne Systems, based in Melbourne, Florida, will build NTS-3 using a Northrop Grumman ESPAStar bus.

Mentioned as: northrop grummanTechnical ProductFeb 5, 2020Air Force gives nod to L3Harris to continue development of NTS-3 navigation satellite

Northrop Grumman’s Mission Extension Vehicle 1 will dock with Intelsat-901 in a graveyard orbit 300 km above the geosynchronous arc.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanTechnical ProductFeb 5, 2020Ariane 6 launch site gets ready • BulgariaSat-1 capacity sales at 15% • U.K. to study MEV-1 docking

GMV received a contract from Northrop Grumman to provide the flight control system for Space Norway’s two highly elliptical orbit satellites.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanOrg RelationshipJan 29, 2020GMV providing ground infrastructure for Space Norway satellites • AAC Clyde wins cubesat order

Greg Robinson, JWST program director at NASA Headquarters, and Scott Willoughby, vice president and JWST program manager at Northrop Grumman, believed the mission was on track to complete a final set of environmental and deployment tests and be shipped to the launch site at Kourou, French Guiana, by the end of 2020.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanOrg RelationshipJan 28, 2020GAO warns of more JWST delays

NASA intends to award a sole-source contract to Northrop Grumman to build the HALO module.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanNarrative GeneralJan 27, 2020Japan seeks to finalize agreement with the U.S. on lunar exploration cooperation
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