Northrop Grumman has opened a two-building, launch and missile defense development campus in Huntsville, Alabama, to expand its research and development capability in support of defense, intelligence and government customers. The new Northrop Grumman Redstone Gateway will house more than a thousand employees working on space technologies for missile defense, the aerospace and defense company […] More

Northrop Grumman and Firefly Aerospace have teamed up to build the first-stage Antares rocket upgrade and a medium launch vehicle to support customers in national security, civilian and commercial space launch markets. “Through our collaboration, we will first develop a fully domestic version of our Antares rocket, the Antares 330, for Cygnus space station commercial […] More

Northrop Grumman has conducted static fire testing for the OmegA launch vehicle’s first stage at the company’s location in Promontory, Utah, ahead of the rocket’s launching slated for 2021.

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Northrop Grumman has begun preparations for the OmegA launch vehicle’s static fire test on May 30 in preparation for the rocket’s first launch slated for 2021. OmegA is designed to support the U.S. Air Force’s national security missions and carry payload for other non-military customers, Northrop said Monday.

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Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus spacecraft established communications with ground engineers and deployed its solar arrays after it took off Wednesday as part of the company’s 11th and final cargo delivery mission to the International Space Station under the Commercial Resupply Services-1 contract with NASA.

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Orbital ATK has conducted a structural acceptance test on a motor composite case built to support the company’s Next Generation Launch family of space launch vehicles. The company said Tuesday the test demonstrated the structural loads’ capacity to generate more than 110 percent of the anticipated maximum motor operating pressure as well as operational, flight and […] More

Orbital ATK has started production work on development hardware for its large- and intermediate-class family of space launch vehicles. Orbital ATK said Monday its Next Generation Launch family of rockets is designed to launch commercial, national security and scientific satellites that are too huge to fly aboard the company’s Antares, Pegasus and Minotaur space vehicles. The […] More