Northrop Grumman has completed the initial preliminary design review (PDR) for the Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO), the company reported on Wednesday. The module will support NASA’s Lunar Gateway by working as a crew habitat and docking hub for vehicles. “Maturing HALO through its preliminary design marks a major milestone in the module’s production,” said Steve Krein, vice president of civil and commercial satellites at Northrop Grumman.

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Northrop Grumman’s Pegasus XL rocket has carried a satellite designed to help NASA study the border between terrestrial and space weather as well as its potential impact on communications systems, people and technologies.

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A Northrop Grumman-built satellite has discovered over 20 planets and conducted observations over Earth’s southern hemisphere after being launched into orbit last year as part of a NASA mission.

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Orbital ATK has completed the spacecraft preliminary design review for National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s three Joint Polar Satellite Systems. The company collaborated with representatives from NOAA and NASA to subject JPSS-2, JPSS-3 and JPSS-4 to the four-day PDR that kicked off Aug. 29 at Orbital ATK’s Gilbert, Arizona-based facility, Orbital ATK said Monday. The […] More

Voyager Space and Northrop Grumman have unveiled plans to collaborate to enhance the capabilities of the Starlab space station and Cygnus spacecraft. The teaming agreement involves developing a fully autonomous rendezvous docking system to upgrade Cygnus and use it in Starlab missions.

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A Northrop Grumman-built cargo spacecraft has reboosted the International Space Station to its desired altitude on orbit in preparation for future space operations. The company said Monday Cygnus used its main onboard engine to conduct station orbit adjustment several months after the spacecraft docked to the ISS to deliver equipment and supplies to the astronauts […] More

Northrop Grumman-built Cygnus spacecraft has left the International Space Station after delivering research, supplies and equipment to astronauts onboard the orbiting laboratory and is now scheduled to spend four weeks in orbit to conduct the second phase of its ISS resupply mission. Among the studies S.S. Ellison Onizuka will perform as part of the NG-16 […] More

A satellite that Orbital ATK built for NASA’s Astrophysics Explorer mission lifted off Wednesday aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite is designed to identify planets nearby host stars to facilitate characterizations of those planets and their atmospheres through the use of four wide-field cameras, […] More

Orbital ATK has received the green light to begin development work on NASA’s land remote sensing satellite designed to gather space-based images and data that can support agriculture, disaster relief and land use mapping research efforts. The company said Thursday the approval came after it completed a critical design review, which showed that the Landsat […] More

Orbital ATK and NASA have conducted a preliminary design review of a land surface mapping satellite the company is building for the space agency and the U.S. Geological Survey. The review occurred at Orbital ATK’s Gilbert, Arizona, facility in July and showed that the Landsat 9 satellite meets system and schedule requirements, the company said Tuesday. NASA awarded […] More