A Northrop Grumman cargo resupply spacecraft departed the International Space Station on Tuesday after a four-month stay to deploy five miniature satellites for the vehicle’s secondary mission. The company said Tuesday it expects the NG-15 Cygnus, nicknamed S.S. Katherine Johnson, to perform cubesat deployments while in orbit over a three-day period before the spacecraft returns […] More

Frank DeMauro, Orbital ATK’s vice president of human space systems for the civil and defense division of the space systems group, has received the Public Service Medal from NASA. The space agency honored DeMauro’s aerospace career and contribution to two commercial resupply missions for the International Space Station, Orbital ATK said Wednesday. Frank Culbertson, president of Orbital […] More

Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus cargo ship has arrived at the International Space Station along with scientific research payload for the company’s NG-13 resupply mission for NASA, NASA Spaceflight reported Tuesday.

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Northrop Grumman broke ground Thursday on the site of a planned expansion for the company’s Arizona-based satellite engineering and manufacturing facility.

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Space Norway, a government-owned Norwegian space firm, has selected Northrop Grumman to design, develop, integrate and test two broadband satellites intended to handle communications across the north polar region.

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Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus docked at the International Space Station on Friday carrying around 7.6K pounds of supplies and experiments under the company’s 11th cargo delivery mission to the laboratory.

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Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus spacecraft docked at the International Space Station tested on Tuesday its reboost capability through a 50-second engine firing activity, Spaceflight Now reported Wednesday. Ground controllers at Northrop’s Dulles, Va.-based mission operations facility transmitted commands to the spacecraft to fire its IHI Aerospace-supplied BT-4 main engine, which generated approximately 100 pounds of thrust […] More

Orbital ATK plans to use its Cygnus spacecraft to perform two cargo delivery missions this year to the International Space Station under the first Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA, NASASpaceflight.com reported Friday. The ninth ISS cargo supply mission, dubbed OA-9, is set to take off in May aboard the Orbital ATK-built Antares rocket from […] More

NASA wants to send an Orbital ATK-built Cygnus cargo ship to the International Space Station in spring 2017 using United Launch Alliance‘s Atlas V rocket, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. Andy Pasztor writes NASA’s plan to use the Atlas V for its next ISS cargo delivery mission with Orbital ATK is part of efforts to ensure that ISS crews will have adequate […] More