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DEVENS, Mass., June 28, 2016 -- The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) has awarded AOA Xinetics, a Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) company, funding to continue supporting the telescope's Narrow Field Infrared Adaptive Optics System. The AOA Xinetics ...

REDONDO BEACH, Calif., May 24, 2016 -- Northrop Grumman Corporation's (NYSE: NOC) delivery of the fully integrated Optical Telescope Element (OTE) for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope marks another major milestone toward the October 2018 launch of ...

REDONDO BEACH, Calif., Feb. 19, 2016 -- The public is invited to witness remarkable never before seen views of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope in the new Discovery Channel documentary film "TELESCOPE," by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Nathaniel Kahn. ...

CARPINTERIA, Calif., Oct. 30, 2015 -- The NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) announced its selection of Astro Aerospace, a Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) company, to design and manufacture the radar antenna for its NASA-ISRO Synthetic ...

REDONDO BEACH, Calif., Oct. 8, 2015 -- Manufacturing and assembly of the spacecraft structure that will take NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to its ultimate destination 1 million miles from Earth was successfully completed July 1 at Northrop Grumman ...

REDONDO BEACH, Calif. – Sept. 1, 2015 –Northrop Grumman (NYSE:NOC) engineers and astronomers demonstrated the ability of a petal-shaped starshade to clearly see celestial objects during two, weeklong series of engineering tests on Kitt Peak at the ...

REDONDO BEACH, Calif. – Aug. 26, 2015 – Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) delivered on schedule the telescope structure for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Aug. 24 to Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, paving the way for ...

REDONDO BEACH, Calif. – Aug.12, 2015 – The first of the five sunshield layers that will make it possible for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to image the formation of stars and galaxies created more than 13.5 billion years ago, was delivered to ...

DEVENS, Mass. – July 30, 2015 – The world's largest ground-based solar telescope is one step closer to operation with the acceptance of the deformable mirror engineered by AOA Xinetics, a Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) company. The Daniel K. ...

MOJAVE, Calif. – July 17, 2015 – The first privately-funded vehicle to reach space and one of the most innovative crafts ever flown is part of space history again. A three-inch piece of SpaceShipOne was selected by the Johns Hopkins University ...