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Amer Khouri, head of Northrop Grumman’s commercial satellite division, estimated that 20 to 30 GEO satellites will retire over the next five years.
In July NASA announced its intent to award a sole-source contract to Northrop Grumman for the Habitation and Logistics Outpost after determining that company was the only one that could have a module ready in time to support a 2024 landing mission.
The Air Force awarded $2,200,000,000 in Launch Service Agreement funding to Blue Origin, Northrop Grumman, and United Launch Alliance in 2018.
Both NASA and Northrop Grumman listed the James Webb Space Telescope launch date as 2021.
The spacecraft element of the James Webb Space Telescope was built at Northrop Grumman and recently completed its environmental tests.
On 2019-08-28, engineers at a Northrop Grumman facility in California mated the observatory’s telescope element with the spacecraft bus and sunshield.
The Delta 4 Medium’s final mission used two solid-fueled strap-on boosters supplied by Northrop Grumman and a cryogenic RS-68A first-stage engine from Aerojet Rocketdyne.
After opening subsequent GPS-3 satellites to competition, the Air Force selected Lockheed Martin again in 2018 for up to 22 follow-on satellites valued at $7,200,000,000 after Boeing and Northrop Grumman declined to bid.
NASA announced an intent in July to award a sole-source contract to Northrop Grumman to build a mini-hab module for the Gateway that will serve as an initial habitation module.
Northrop Grumman was one of six companies working on habitation module designs under the Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships 2 program and was the only company NASA concluded could deliver a module in time to support a 2024 human mission to the lunar surface.
Northrop Grumman was awarded four OSP-3 task-order missions—NROL-111, NROL-129, NROL-174, and AFMC-1—that will launch over the next two years.
Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems will launch a National Reconnaissance Office payload later 2019 using a Minotaur launch vehicle.
The Air Force selected contractors for OSP-3 in 2012: SpaceX, Orbital Sciences Corp (later Orbital ATK, then Northrop Grumman), and Lockheed Martin.
The Air Force awarded a Launch Service Agreement in 2018 to Blue Origin, United Launch Alliance, and Northrop Grumman to help pay for rocket development and infrastructure.
United Launch Alliance, SpaceX, Northrop Grumman, and Blue Origin are developing new rockets and upgrading existing vehicles for the Phase 2 competition.
NASA planned to award a sole-source contract for the lunar Gateway habitation module to Northrop Grumman to support the agency’s goal of a human lunar landing in 2024.
The Aerospace Corporation's two-satellite AeroCube 10 mission was released from the Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft on August 7, 2023.
In 1962, 11 firms were invited to submit proposals for the Apollo lunar module, nine companies responded, and Grumman Aircraft was awarded the lunar module contract two months later.
Northrop Grumman is developing and building on-orbit servicing vehicles such as the Mission Extension Vehicle.
The Air Force awarded Boeing and Northrop Grumman contracts to develop preliminary GBSD designs under the Technology Maturation and Risk Reduction phase.