Join us at Southampton University to hear how researchers are helping to reach space, explore space and change the world with satellite data.
Human Spaceflight and Logistics
Since 2014, Northrop Grumman has provided vital supplies to the astronauts aboard the International Space Station with our Cygnus spacecraft launched aboard our Antares rocket.
NASA’s Artemis Program
Northrop Grumman supports Artemis by providing the solid rocket boosters for the NASA Space Launch System and the abort motor and attitude control motor for the Orion spacecraft’s Launch Abort System.
James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) is the closest thing we have to time travel, capturing images that offer a glimpse to the origins of the universe
Advanced Technology and Innovation
The result of constantly questioning and problem solving? A shared purpose that puts Northrop Grumman on the forefront of innovation and advanced technology development, everywhere from below the waves to above the atmosphere.
The Women of Artemis
The program is focused on establishing a sustainable human presence in deep space, including ultimately landing the first woman on the Moon. Here at Northrop Grumman, women are leading the way to help achieve this history-making first.
Northrop Grumman in Arizona
Situated in the innovation and technology hub of the Southwest, Northrop Grumman Arizona employees are pushing the boundaries of space exploration, launch systems and missile defense.
The Coolest Technology: Cryocoolers
Cryocoolers are machines that keep sensors extremely cold so that satellites and space telescopes can take pictures on long-term missions. Whether we're looking back toward Earth or outward into deep space, the sensors that capture images require extremely low temperatures.
Spacecraft Design: The Art and Science of Breaking Barriers
Iterative systems engineering produces barrier-breaking spacecraft design. But what does this look like in practice? How do engineering teams combine the science of spaceflight with the art of design to help customers break barriers — and balance budgets?
Advanced Technology and Innovation
The result of constantly questioning and problem solving? A shared purpose that puts Northrop Grumman on the forefront of innovation and advanced technology development, everywhere from below the waves to above the atmosphere.
Technical Details for the James Webb Space Telescope
The James Webb Space Telescope is peering into the past to unlock the mysteries of our universe. Learn about the technical details of this ambitious mission.
James Webb Space Telescope
As the prime contractor, Northrop Grumman led the industry team for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, the largest, most complex and powerful space telescope ever built.
Space Symposium 2024
Northrop Grumman is a premier provider of space, ground and launch systems with deep mission expertise and end-to-end capabilities in national security, civil, and commercial systems.
Navigating the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
The team behind Northrop Grumman's Scalable Space Inertial Reference Unit navigation system is working to make sure the Roman Space Telescope can stabilize and point in the right direction, even when it's extremely far from home for many years.
Space
Northrop Grumman solves the toughest problems in space.
SLS FSB-1 Mission Page
The Space Launch System (SLS) solid rocket booster is based on three decades of knowledge and experience gained with the space shuttle booster, and improved with the latest technology.
DAWN Spacecraft: Uncovering the Relics of the Early Solar System
NASA's DAWN spacecraft, designed and built by Northrop Grumman, captured more than 100,000 images of the two different proto-planets, allowing scientists to catalog their previously unknown history.
Head in the Clouds
Even the most advanced military technology and missions need help to withstand the elements and at Northrop Grumman, our atmospheric scientists are the in-house experts on weather and its potential impact on the U.S. military.
Northrop Grumman in Northern Virginia
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Civil and Commercial Space
Northrop Grumman's depth and breadth of mission experience in developing leading-edge space technologies allows us to play vital roles in the quest to answer compelling questions about the origins of our universe, to explore beyond our own planet, and pioneer new technologies.
Chandra X-Ray Observatory
Over the past 20 years, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has made extraordinary discoveries to further our curiosity about the universe.
Game Changer Part III: Triumph
In the Spring of 2018, questions from the media, Congress and the science community swirled around NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope program. The headlines weren’t kind.
A Career in Orbit
On Jan. 31, 2023, Vice President Kamala Harris awarded Doug and Bob the Congressional Space Medal of Honor for their meritorious efforts and contributions to America’s space programs throughout their NASA careers, including their roles in the Demo-2 mission. [...]Read More...
Careers in Digital Engineering
Embark on a digital engineering career putting innovative, reliable, and agile products and ideas into the air, undersea, on land into orbit or across multiple domains at Northrop Grumman.
The Great Observatories
When it comes to solving the mysteries of the universe, Northrop Grumman has pioneered groundbreaking technologies from the very beginning of the Space Age. Our engineering and innovation have made possible a decades-long list of historic space missions to help humanity peer farther into the cosmos than ever before, including most recently with the James Webb Space Telescope (Webb).
Cosmic Game Changer: Northrop Grumman and NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope
The story of how NASA, together with an industry team led by Northrop Grumman, achieved the unprecedented: a tool for exploration of the deepest mysteries of our existence.
Water on Mars
Water on Mars? Thanks to innovative space deployable structures made by Astro Aerospace, we are learning more about the Red Planet every day.
Why the Webb Spacecraft Bus Is in a League of Its Own
While the payload of a space launch garners the most attention, it's the spacecraft bus that carries and supports every aspect of the mission for the life of that craft.
Cryocoolers
Northrop Grumman’s cryocoolers offer high reliability for critical space missions, including missile defense, climate science, astronomy, and weather tracking and prediction.
The Sound of Future Applications for Field-Induced Forces
A field-induced force is what the name implies: a wave creates a force that moves an object without touching it. Using frequencies beyond what humans can hear, the Northrop Grumman team creates can move tiny particle using sound.
Northrop Grumman in Huntsville, Alabama
Explore Northrop Grumman opportunities in Huntsville, Alabama and start Defining Possible today.
Game Changer Part II: Northrop Grumman and the James Webb Space Telescope’s Confounding Sunshield
From day one, everyone involved in the program knew that when NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope arrived on orbit it would change humanity’s understanding of our cosmic origins. If it worked...