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Northrop Grumman and its heritage companies are well-known for manufacturing the solid rocket motors that boosted the space shuttle into space for 30 years. The company makes a variety of solid rocket motors for various uses, and for different purposes....

With approximately 7,400 pounds of science experiments, tools and food tightly packed inside, Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus spacecraft was launched aboard an Antares rocket and began its journey to the International Space Station on Monday, May 21. Just...

Since 1998, the Northrop Grumman Mission Systems sector has provided hands-on vocational training to rising Maryland students through the Northrop Grumman High School Involvement Partnership (HIP) program. HIP gives students real-life experiences that...

Northrop Grumman’s Battlefield Airborne Communications Node (BACN) has been one of the Defense Department’s most enduring capabilities, delivering interoperable voice and data communications between boots on the ground and pilots in the sky since...

As the average age of aircraft inventories rises, military services worldwide are increasingly embracing the cost-effective solution of modernizing existing platforms as an alternative to purchasing brand new aircraft.

GySgt. Jonathan E. Thornton Named Aviation Ground Marine of the Year DULLES, Va.May 22, 2018-- Orbital ATK (NYSE: OA), a global leader in aerospace and defense technologies, congratulates GySgt. Jonathon E. Thornton of the Marine Wing Support Squadron ...

Orbital ATK further revealed details of its all-American OmegA™ launch vehicle supporting the Evolved, Expandable Launch Vehicle (EEVLV) program for the U.S. Air Force this week at the Space Symposium in Colorado Springs. As one of the company’s ...

Under a contract awarded by NASA in 2013, Orbital ATK designed, manufactured, integrated and tested the space agency’s next planet hunter: the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). The spacecraft began its two-year mission on Wednesday, April 18,...

The HYLAS 4 commercial communications satellite launched aboard an Arianespace Ariane 5 rocket from Kourou, French Guiana on April 5, 2018 at 5:34 p.m. ET.

Orbital ATK successfully tested an SR 118 rocket motor at the company’s Promontory, Utah, facility on March 29. This ground test produced just the right amount of smoke and fire – it’s always exciting to witness a rocket test or launch, and this one ...