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Northrop Grumman

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Falls Church, Virginia, United States
www.northropgrumman.com/
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Stratolaunch reached an agreement with Orbital ATK in 2016 to use the Pegasus rocket on its carrier aircraft with the ability to launch as many as three Pegasus rockets on a single flight.

Mentioned as: orbital atkTechnical ProductAug 21, 2018Stratolaunch confirms launch vehicle development plans

Carlos Niederstrasser of Northrop Grumman identified 101 small launch vehicles that are or have been under development in the last four years based on open-source information in a presentation on 2018-08-08.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanTechnical ProductAug 17, 2018Small launch industry growing, but with growing pains

The Space and Missile Systems Center is using expedited procurement authorities to buy five missile-warning satellites from Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanOrg RelationshipAug 14, 2018Lockheed Martin awarded $2.9 billion Air Force contract for three missile-warning satellites

NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate awarded Made In Space and partners Northrop Grumman and Oceaneering Space Systems a two-year $20,000,000 contract in 2016 to develop Archinaut.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanOrg RelationshipAug 8, 2018Made In Space proposes printing large solar arrays for small satellites

The report assumes cargo transportation costs at $20,000 per kilogram, while current contracts with Northrop Grumman and SpaceX charge approximately three times that amount.

Mentioned as: northrop grummanOrg RelationshipJul 31, 2018NASA Inspector General skeptical of ISS commercialization plans

Northrop Grumman stated that no employees responsible for the human errors that led to JWST delays lost their jobs.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanNarrative GeneralJul 26, 2018Northrop CEO offers to link JWST profit to mission success

Wes Bush declined to state Northrop Grumman's profit for the prior year during the hearing and offered to provide that information for the record.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanTechnical ProductJul 26, 2018Northrop CEO offers to link JWST profit to mission success

Northrop Grumman's 10-K filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in January 2018 shows net earnings of just over $2,000,000,000 in 2017.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanNarrative FinancialJul 26, 2018Northrop CEO offers to link JWST profit to mission success

Northrop Grumman declined to accept responsibility for paying the $800,000,000 overrun above the JWST mission's $8,000,000,000 cost cap on the grounds that doing so would create a more fixed-price relationship with NASA.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanOrg RelationshipJul 26, 2018Northrop CEO offers to link JWST profit to mission success

Northrop Grumman accepted and was implementing the recommendations of an independent review board that released its final report a month before the 2018-07-26 hearing.

Mentioned as: northrop grummanTechnical ProductJul 26, 2018Northrop CEO offers to link JWST profit to mission success

Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems was chosen to build Intelsat’s Galaxy-30 GEO satellite.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanOrg RelationshipJul 24, 2018Maxar considering exiting GEO satellite manufacturing business

The Air Force awarded a $328,000,000 contract to Northrop Grumman in August 2017 to mature GBSD designs after a three-way competition.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanOrg RelationshipJul 22, 2018Air Force gets first real look at future ICBM designs

Orbital ATK’s first Mission Extension Vehicle, MEV-1, is slated to launch in early next year to dock with Intelsat-901 and take over orbital station-keeping duties, extending the satellite’s service life by several years.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanOrg RelationshipJul 11, 2018Why Intelsat’s going with life extension over refueling

Orbital ATK completed successful compatibility assessments between MEV-1 and Intelsat-901.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanNarrative GeneralJul 11, 2018Why Intelsat’s going with life extension over refueling

United Launch Alliance and Northrop Grumman purchase RD-180 and RD-181 engines from RD Amross, a Florida-based joint venture of Energomash and Pratt & Whitney.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanOrg RelationshipJul 10, 2018Energomash raises alarm over U.S. ban on Russian rocket engines

Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems uses the RD-181 to power Antares rockets that launch Cygnus cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station for NASA.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanOrg RelationshipJul 10, 2018Energomash raises alarm over U.S. ban on Russian rocket engines

In May 2017 DARPA selected Boeing to develop the XS-1 program, with Masten Space Systems and Northrop Grumman having received earlier study contracts.

Mentioned as: northrop grummanOrg RelationshipJul 3, 2018Engine tests underway for DARPA spaceplane program

Orbital ATK-produced space shuttle-derived solid rocket boosters will be built under Northrop Grumman for NASA’s Space Launch System heavy-lift rocket.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanOrg RelationshipJun 27, 2018In the wake of Northrop-Orbital merger, Aerojet’s solid rocket engine business teetering on the brink

NASA chartered an independent review board in March that completed a review offering about 30 recommendations which NASA accepted to revise JWST development and oversight of work at prime contractor Northrop Grumman.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanNarrative GeneralJun 27, 2018JWST suffers another launch delay, breaches cost cap

Northrop Grumman operates Orbital ATK’s four solid rocket motor facilities: two in Utah that make large SRMs, one in West Virginia that produces tactical rocket motors, and one in Maryland that specializes in solid rockets for anti-missile interceptors.

Mentioned as: Orbital ATKTechnical ProductJun 27, 2018In the wake of Northrop-Orbital merger, Aerojet’s solid rocket engine business teetering on the brink
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