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DULLES, Va. – Aug. 22, 2019 – Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) provided the rocket boosters for today’s successful launch and deployment of the U.S. Air Force’s second Global Positioning System III-series satellite (GPS III SV02) on a United...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – July 2, 2019 – Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) provided major support for the booster and two additional motors for today’s successful test of the NASA Orion crew spacecraft’s abort system. The Ascent Abort-2 (AA-2) test...

MAGNA, Utah – June 4, 2019 – Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) shipped the inert abort motor for NASA’s Orion spacecraft Launch Abort System (LAS) from the Northrop Grumman facility in Magna, Utah, to Kennedy Space Center, Florida. It will...

Tucked into the hillside off a quiet Utah highway, bunker-like buildings go relatively unnoticed among the brush. Deep inside one of these shed-like structures rests the work of dozens of the country’s best rocket scientists. Soon, years of development...

Dulles, Va. – April 4, 2019 – Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) conducted its second ground test of a 63-inch diameter Graphite Epoxy Motor (GEM 63) today in Promontory, Utah. The company developed this new side-mounted rocket motor to add power...

DULLES, Va. – March 15, 2019 – Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) provided a wide array of innovative technologies for today’s successful launch and deployment of the 10th Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS-10) on a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV...

ROCKET CENTER, W.Va. – March 5, 2019 – Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) announced that rocket motor production operations have begun at its new modernized tactical motor manufacturing facility located at the Allegany Ballistics Laboratory (ABL)...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Oct. 17, 2019 – The fourth Lockheed Martin-built Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) protected military communications satellite was successfully launched today aboard a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket. In support...

Dulles, Va. – Jan. 17, 2019 – Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) has been awarded a follow-on contract valued up to $86 million from the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center, Launch Systems Enterprise, Small Launch and Targets Division...

PROMONTORY, Utah – Dec. 13, 2018 – Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) along with NASA and Lockheed Martin successfully performed a ground firing test of the abort motor for NASA’s Orion spacecraft Launch Abort System (LAS) at Northrop Grumman’s...