Rocket Design Team Helps Launch New Space Opportunities

Northrop Grumman’s rocket design team is always working to design more reliable, better priced and more innovative rockets for customers and for emerging opportunities. […]

Launch a career in systems or software engineering in space

Launch a systems or software engineering career in space with Northrop Grumman […]

Virtual Reality Brings Engineers to the Moon

Northrop Grumman engineers use virtual reality and 3D-printed models to step into astronauts’ shoes and test the feasibility of procedures in the lunar module. […]

Digital Engineering and Human Factors Designing HALO

Northrop Grumman engineers are using digital engineering methods to design and test the Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO). […]

Made It Possible: Robert Romero and Empowering Future Rocket Scientists

If you would have told me when I was a young boy growing up on a Colorado dairy farm that I would get the opportunity to design, build and test rocket motors for a living, I never would have believed you. My father was a dairyman who left school when he was in sixth grade […]

SharkSat Scales Up to Deliver Advanced Technology Demonstration

Northrop Grumman’s SharkSat program scales up speed and specificity to deliver an advanced technology demonstration. […]

Satellite Services in Space

Northrop Grumman developed three mission extension technologies that extend satellite services. […]

Digital Engineering Triumph MEV Revitalizes Satellites in Space

Northrop Grumman is reimagining satellite services, creating a line of industrious spacecraft that refuel and repair satellites. […]

Space Symposium

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Beyond the Boneyard

Northrop Grumman finds creative solutions to end-of-life management. From STEM education to technician training and public display, Northrop Grumman is demonstrating that there is still plenty of life in end-of-life technology. […]

Preparing to Launch Landsat 9

Northrop Grumman fault management engineers consider all scenarios for Landsat 9, the next satellite in a 49-year history of documenting the Earth’s surface. […]

Launch a career in space with Northrop Grumman

Northrop Grumman has job opportunities that play a vital role in human space exploration, national defense, and scientific discovery, supporting multiple programs across the universe. […]

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. […]

Propelling Space and Defense Missions: Solid Rocket Motor Expertise

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Minotaur NROL111

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Lessons from Dawn

I’ve touched the Apollo 14 vehicle, witnessed the first flight of the C-2A cargo aircraft and watched Dawn leave the Earth – Life at Northrop Grumman […]

Cosmic Outfitters: Dressing Spacecraft for Mission Success

Before launching onto the celestial stage, Northrop Grumman experts dress spacecraft to protect it from extreme space temperatures. […]

Commercial Communications Satellites

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Launching Solutions into Space: The Innovation Technology Paradox

Dr. Ed Silverman Northrop Grumman Fellow […]

Engineering Marvel: The JWST Mega Sunshield Takes its Shape

Imagine having to squeeze an enormous mirror and a sunshield that’s the size of a tennis court into a rocket ship. This is the reality of an intricate deployment process engineers have incorporated into the construction of the James Webb Space Telescope. […]

Civil and Commercial Space

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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. […]

Propulsion Systems

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NASA Commercial Resupply Mission-NG-15

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NASA Commercial Resupply Mission Update

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Commercial Rocket Motors

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Ground-based Midcourse System

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Spacecraft Components

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Minotaur Rocket

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Pegasus Rocket

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Rising to the Occasion: Northrop Grumman and the GBSD Program

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Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder

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A New Space Paradigm Calls for Purpose-Built Spacecraft

Northrop Grumman is accelerating the pace of new space technology development, deploying DARPA’s R3D2 with extreme speed and incredible innovation. […]

Next Generation Interceptor

Building on decades of experience as a prime contractor for major defense programs, Northrop Grumman will provide a comprehensive NGI solution that supports operational deployment to urgent national security needs. […]

Communications Satellites

Counter Hypersonics

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James Webb Space Telescope

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DAWN Spacecraft: Uncovering the Relics of the Early Solar System

NASA’s DAWN spacecraft, designed and built by Northrop Grumman, captured over 100,000 images of the two different proto-planets, allowing scientists to catalog their previously unknown history. […]

An Ingenious Device: The Pinch Polarizer Is Used All Over Space

The pinch polarizer is an invention by Northrop Grumman aerospace engineers. It’s a big deal in the space industry because, for relatively little cost and little production effort, it plays a big role in ensuring the transmission of satellite radio signals. […]

Navigating Mars and Beyond with LN-200 Inertial Measurement Units

When NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover lands on the Red Planet in February 2021 and begins exploring the Jezero Crater for signs of microbial life, it will be guided by a tried and trusted navigator, Northrop Grumman’s LN-200S Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU). […]