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Dulles, Va. – Aug. 2, 2018 – Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) announced that NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has successfully reached its desired stable orbit and begun science operations. The spacecraft was built and operated...

REDONDO BEACH, Calif. – June 20, 2018 – Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) has successfully powered up the two main parts of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, a significant event in the test and integration phase of the program.   The Webb...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope will peer into the past to measure and capture images of stars and galaxies that began to form billions of years ago. The Northrop Grumman Foundation, in conjunction with filmmaker Nathaniel Kahn, developed a...

REDONDO BEACH, Calif. – March 12, 2018 – All the major elements of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope now reside in a giant clean room at Northrop Grumman Corporation’s (NYSE: NOC) Redondo Beach facility, setting the stage for final assembly and testing...

REDONDO BEACH, Calif. – Feb. 5, 2018 – The two halves of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope now reside at Northrop Grumman (NYSE:NOC) in Redondo Beach, Calif., where they will come together to form the complete observatory.  

TOKYO, KYOTO, KOBE, U.S. – Nov. 8, 2017 – Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) is highlighting NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) program to audiences around Japan in a series of lectures and special screenings of the documentary film Into the...

SEOUL – Nov. 5, 2017 – Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) is highlighting NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) program to audiences in South Korea in a series of special screenings of the documentary film Into the Unknown as part of the...

REDONDO BEACH, Calif. – Oct. 26, 2017 – Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC), which designed NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) optics, spacecraft bus, and sunshield for NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, has deployed the sunshield subsystem...

OSLO – Oct. 4, 2017 – Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) is highlighting NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) programme to audiences in Norway in a series of special screenings of the documentary film Into the Unknown as part of the company’s...

REDONDO BEACH, Calif. – Aug. 7, 2017 – The five sunshield layers responsible for protecting the optics and instruments of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope are now fully installed. Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC), which designed the Webb...