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MOJAVE, Calif. – July 17, 2015 – The first privately-funded vehicle to reach space and one of the most innovative crafts ever flown is part of space history again. A three-inch piece of SpaceShipOne was selected by the Johns Hopkins University ...

Devens, Mass. – June 11, 2015 – Designed to significantly advance the science and technology supporting exoplanet research, the PICTURE B mission by the Center for Atmospheric Research at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, reached a major ...

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 ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – June 4, 2015 – This year marks the 50th anniversary of SYNOPTICS, a Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) company and the world leader in the manufacture of synthetic crystals, primarily used in solid-state lasers. Founded in ...

CARPINTERIA, Calif. – May 26, 2015 – NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has declared the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) spacecraft fully operational, officially beginning the satellite's three-year mission to provide global measurements of soil ...

REDONDO BEACH, Calif. – May 15, 2015 – Northrop Grumman Corp. (NYSE:NOC) formed a scientific advisory board to guide its efforts to develop a lighter-than-air vehicle to explore Venus's environment. The company's Venus Atmospheric Maneuverable ...

WOODLAND HILLS, Calif. – April 28, 2015 – Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) has been selected by prime contractor Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT) to provide the space inertial reference system for the U.S. Air Force's sixth Space Based Infrared ...

REDONDO BEACH, Calif. – April 27, 2015 – Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) joined Griffith Observatory April 24-26 with daily events to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope. Griffith Observatory, in Los ...

PASADENA, Calif. – April 20, 2015 – Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) has signed a sponsored research agreement with the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) for the development of the Space Solar Power Initiative (SSPI). Under the terms ...

REDONDO BEACH, Calif. -- April 15, 2015 -- Northrop Grumman (NYSE:NOC) has successfully demonstrated a space-design protected tactical waveform (PTW) processor that enhances user data rates up to a factor of 20, improves spectral efficiency up to a ...