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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...

LONDON – July 20, 2017 – Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) highlighted NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) programme to audiences around the U.K. in a series of special screenings of the documentary film Into the Unknown as part of the company’s science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education outreach efforts

CARPINTERIA, Calif. – June 26, 2017 – Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) reached another major milestone for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, with the delivery of the mid-boom assemblies. The graphite-epoxy assemblies were designed, built, and...

REDONDO BEACH, Calif. – Nov. 2, 2016 – Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) received a Program Excellence award from Aviation Week for leading the industry team building NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. The award honors program teams for...

REDONDO BEACH, Calif. – Oct. 31, 2016 – The last of the five sunshield layers responsible for protecting the optics and instruments of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is now complete.   Designed by Northrop Grumman in Redondo Beach, the Webb...

REDONDO BEACH, Calif., June 13, 2016 -- Timothy Martin, director of engineering for Northrop Grumman Corporation's (NYSE:NOC) Aerospace Systems sector was recognized with the Robert H. Goddard Exceptional Achievement Award for Engineering by NASA's ...

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 ...