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Northrop Grumman

US
commercial
Falls Church, Virginia, United States
www.northropgrumman.com/
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Northrop Grumman expects to hire a large number of new employees at its facilities to support OmegA development.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanTechnical ProductOct 11, 2018Air Force funding three new rockets to compete with SpaceX but only intends to buy launch services from two providers

The Air Force has committed through 2024 a total of $792,000,000 in OTA funds for Northrop Grumman.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanOrg RelationshipOct 10, 2018Air Force awards launch vehicle development contracts to Blue Origin, Northrop Grumman, ULA

The U.S. Air Force awarded three contracts collectively worth about $2,000,000,000 to Blue Origin, Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems, and United Launch Alliance to develop launch system prototypes.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanOrg RelationshipOct 10, 2018Air Force awards launch vehicle development contracts to Blue Origin, Northrop Grumman, ULA

Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems uses the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island to launch Antares rockets to the International Space Station.

Mentioned as: Northrop Grumman Innovation SystemsOrg RelationshipOct 9, 2018UP Aerospace targets government customers with $1 million dedicated smallsat launches

Intelsat ordered the Galaxy-30 satellite from Orbital ATK (now Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems) in January.

Mentioned as: Northrop Grumman Innovation SystemsOrg RelationshipOct 8, 2018Intelsat: losing 200 or more megahertz of C-band will require new satellites

Maxar Technologies’ SSL, Sierra Nevada Corp., and Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems were selected to compete for future small satellite development contracts that could be worth up to $750,000,000.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanNarrative FinancialOct 5, 2018Big money in small satellites: Space RCO selects three companies to compete for future contracts

Northrop Grumman was awarded a contract to build two polar-orbit satellites as part of the next-generation OPIR program.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanNarrative GeneralOct 4, 2018Lockheed Martin selects payload providers for next-generation missile warning satellites

Lockheed Martin selected Raytheon and a Northrop Grumman/Ball Aerospace team to compete for the mission payloads of the U.S. Air Force’s next-generation Overhead Persistent Infrared Block 0 missile warning satellites.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanTechnical ProductOct 4, 2018Lockheed Martin selects payload providers for next-generation missile warning satellites

The selected Raytheon and Northrop Grumman/Ball Aerospace teams are tasked to develop detailed designs and compete their solutions for potential use on the next-generation OPIR Block 0 GEO satellites.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanTechnical ProductOct 4, 2018Lockheed Martin selects payload providers for next-generation missile warning satellites

Shea Ferring has held engineering and leadership roles at NASA Launch Services Program, ECAPS, Vencore, and Orbital ATK.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanNarrative GeneralSep 27, 2018Firefly Aerospace Welcomes Shea Ferring as Vice President of Mission Assurance

Blue Origin joins an industry team for Vulcan that includes Aerojet Rocketdyne providing the RL10 engine for the rocket's upper stage, Northrop Grumman supplying solid-fuel strap-on boosters, L-3 Avionics Systems providing the rocket's avionics, and Ruag supplying the rocket's payload fairing.

Mentioned as: northrop grummanTechnical ProductSep 27, 2018ULA selects Blue Origin to provide Vulcan main engine

Stratolaunch plans to use the Pegasus XL rocket from Northrop Grumman for some missions.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanOrg RelationshipSep 27, 2018Stratolaunch releases new details about rocket engine work

Northrop Grumman has developed a maintenance and upgrade plan to continue operating its L-1011 aircraft for the next 10 years.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanNarrative GeneralSep 24, 2018Northrop Grumman seeking to cut costs on small launch vehicles

Northrop Grumman has worked in recent years to reduce Pegasus vehicle costs by 20 to 30 percent.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanOrg RelationshipSep 24, 2018Northrop Grumman seeking to cut costs on small launch vehicles

Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Air Force collectively invested more than $200,000,000 in the Omega launch vehicle between 2015 and 2017.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanOrg RelationshipSep 20, 2018Northrop Grumman confident Air Force will continue to fund the company’s new rocket

Northrop Grumman unveiled the Omega rocket in April at the National Space Symposium a few months after acquiring Orbital ATK.

Mentioned as: Orbital ATKOrg RelationshipSep 20, 2018Northrop Grumman confident Air Force will continue to fund the company’s new rocket

Northrop Grumman plans to seek customers for the two Omega certification flights in 2021 and aims to be certified to fly government payloads in 2022.

Mentioned as: northrop grummanOrg RelationshipSep 20, 2018Northrop Grumman confident Air Force will continue to fund the company’s new rocket

Northrop Grumman developed ESPASat, a geostationary satellite bus designed to fly from the ESPAStar platform, based on the AFRL Automated Navigation and Guidance Experiment for Local Space (ANGELS) program launched in 2014.

Mentioned as: northrop grummanTechnical ProductSep 17, 2018Government agencies prepare for piggyback flights, secondary payloads

Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems and Thales Alenia Space each won one of the 2018 normal commercial GEO contracts.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanTechnical ProductSep 14, 2018Airbus forecasts 15 to 18 commercial GEO orders as new annual norm

The Pegasus XL rocket provided by Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems will be the small-end option of Stratolaunch’s vehicle family, with launches beginning in 2020.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanNarrative PlanAug 21, 2018Stratolaunch confirms launch vehicle development plans
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