News Releases

DULLES, Va. – July 1, 2021 – Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) announced today the successful delivery of an ESPAStar-D spacecraft bus from Gilbert, Ariz., to L3Harris in Melbourne, Fl. The platform supports the Navigation Technology Satellite-3 (NTS-3) mission for the...

REDONDO BEACH, Calif. – Sept. 17, 2020 – Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Space Force for the rapid prototyping phase of the Evolved Strategic SATCOM (ESS) program to develop a modernized strategic...

AZUSA, Calif. – June 24, 2020 – Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) and Ball Aerospace’s competitive payload design has successfully passed its preliminary design review (PDR) for the U.S. Space Force’s Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared (Next-Gen OPIR) Geosynchronous (GEO) Block 0...

DULLES, Va. – June 23, 2020 – Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) has been selected by SES to build two C-band satellites that will operate in the upper portion of the spectrum. This award supports the Federal Communication Commission’s order to...

DULLES, Va. – June 15, 2020 – Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) has been selected by Intelsat to build two C-band satellites that will operate in the upper portion of the C-band spectrum, a range of wireless radio frequencies that is used for...

REDONDO BEACH, Calif. – June 2, 2020 – Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) has been awarded a not-to-exceed $2.37 billion undefinitized contract modification for Phase 1 of the Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared (Next-Gen OPIR) Polar...

GILBERT, Ariz. – Jan. 31, 2020 – Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) held a groundbreaking ceremony yesterday to highlight its expansion of the company’s satellite engineering and manufacturing operations in Arizona. The expansion includes a 100,000...

REDONDO BEACH, Calif. – Oct. 14, 2019 – The Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS) satellites built by Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) for the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) have far surpassed their four-year on-orbit design life,...

Dulles, Va. – Oct. 10, 2019 – Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) announced its Pegasus® XL rocket successfully launched the company-built Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) satellite for NASA. The launch marked the 44th overall flight of the ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – Aug. 2, 2019 – Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) will be showcasing its robust portfolio of multi-domain air, space and missile defense solutions at next week’s Space and Missile Defense (SMD) Symposium. Located at Von Braun...