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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 ...

REDONDO BEACH, Calif., Feb. 19, 2016 -- The public is invited to witness remarkable never before seen views of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope in the new Discovery Channel documentary film "TELESCOPE," by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Nathaniel Kahn. ...

REDONDO BEACH, Calif., Oct. 8, 2015 -- Manufacturing and assembly of the spacecraft structure that will take NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to its ultimate destination 1 million miles from Earth was successfully completed July 1 at Northrop Grumman ...

REDONDO BEACH, Calif. – Aug. 26, 2015 – Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) delivered on schedule the telescope structure for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Aug. 24 to Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, paving the way for ...

REDONDO BEACH, Calif. – Aug.12, 2015 – The first of the five sunshield layers that will make it possible for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to image the formation of stars and galaxies created more than 13.5 billion years ago, was delivered to ...

REDONDO BEACH, Calif. – June 8, 2015 – NASA Administrator Charles Bolden visited Northrop Grumman Corporation's (NYSE:NOC) Redondo Beach facility May 28 to see the progress on the agency's James Webb Space Telescope. Northrop Grumman is under ...

REDONDO BEACH, Calif. – April 14, 2015 – Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) reached another major milestone for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope this week, with the delivery of the Deployable Tower Assembly (DTA). Following successful ambient ...