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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.
Northrop Grumman incorporated patented technology to avoid electrostatic discharges on orbit into MEV-1 after delaying its launch from 2018 to 2019.
Northrop Grumman designed the MEV servicing spacecraft by combining its GEOStar communications satellite bus with elements of the Cygnus cargo tug.
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.
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.
Northrop Grumman is investing in people and facilities to meet the Air Force schedule of fielding GBSD in 2029.
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.
Space Norway competed its Arctic Satellite Broadband Mission among European and American manufacturers before selecting Northrop Grumman to build two satellites.
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.
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.
Northrop Grumman used technicians who work on other vehicles at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California to accelerate preparations for the NG-13 launch.
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.
Northrop Grumman developed the AEHF payloads under contract to Lockheed Martin, the AEHF prime contractor.
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.
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.
L3Harris Space and Airborne Systems, based in Melbourne, Florida, will build NTS-3 using a Northrop Grumman ESPAStar bus.
Northrop Grumman’s Mission Extension Vehicle 1 will dock with Intelsat-901 in a graveyard orbit 300 km above the geosynchronous arc.
GMV received a contract from Northrop Grumman to provide the flight control system for Space Norway’s two highly elliptical orbit satellites.
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.
NASA intends to award a sole-source contract to Northrop Grumman to build the HALO module.