Feature Stories

Launch operations at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility have taken on a higher tempo - of agility, innovation and speed - as the Antares team prepares the rocket to take on a new capability. Soon a specialized removable nose cone called a “pop-top” and a...

Six months after launch, NASA’s newest Mars explorer, InSight, made its dramatic entrance to the red planet on Monday, Nov. 26, 2018 at 2:52 p.m. EST. InSight, short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, will...

With approximately 7,400 pounds of science experiments, tools and food, tightly packed inside, Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus spacecraft launched aboard the company’s Antares rocket and began its journey to the International Space Station on Saturday, Nov....

The latest addition to the U.S. Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) fleet will be commissioned at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland on Saturday, Nov. 17, 2018.   LCS is a flexible, reconfigurable class of ship designed to patrol close to...

Northrop Grumman, George Mason University (GMU), Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA) and Virginia Governor Ralph Northam recently celebrated the first class enrolled in the schools’ ADVANCE program. GMU’s ADVANCE program is a partnership with...

As a part of a long-standing tradition, employees in Northrop Grumman’s Innovation Systems sector spent last month giving back to local communities through United Way. Here are a few snapshots from across the country. Frye Elementary School, Chandler...

On Nov. 3, Northrop Grumman sponsored the 18th annual Expanding Your Horizons (EYH) conference in Northern Utah. This conference focuses on familiarizing young women with the fields of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). Approximately 400...

The Northrop Grumman OmegA program team recently celebrated as the OmegA rocket was one of the three vehicles chosen by the U.S. Air Force to move forward in development of a system that will assure access to space for the nation’s most critical...

For more than 75 years, members of the U.S. Armed Forces and its allies have depended on the quality and reliability of small-caliber ammunition manufactured at the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant (LCAAP) in Independence, Missouri, to defend freedom...

Human spaceflight is inherently risky, which is why we have tremendous safeguards in place to protect our astronauts. When NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion spacecraft fly in 2020, a Launch Abort System (LAS) will be incorporated into the...