24 August 2020
NASA receives full-sized lunar lander mock-up from Blue Origin
... Integrated Lander Vehicle (ILV) – a three-stage lander to be launched on Jeff Bezos’s own New Glenn Rocket System. Northrop Grumman will be providing the “Transfer Element”; a vehicle that brings the landing systems into position in lunar orbit...
28 March 2018
Woes for Webb as the space telescope is delayed again
... for the operation of the Observatory, such as propulsion and communications and tucked in with it is the sunshield. Designed by Northrop Grumman, the spacecraft’s five-layered sunshield, which acts like a giant parasol, is the size of a tennis court...
May 2019
Cold comfort for astronauts
... Soyuz capsules for crew and cargo, and the US Dragon and Cygnus capsules from SpaceX and Northrop Grumman for cargo. Analogues Humans are motivated by a desire to explore the world around them, and humancentred design...
July 2020
The four horsemen of space finance
...-national enterprises. These are of course the larger strategic firms such as Lockheed Martin, Airbus, Boeing and Northrop Grumman. While this can be a good source of capital for companies, it also puts them on a path of less independence in the...
July 2020
Covid-19 infects global space community
..., supply chain disruptions and delays Most space infrastructure players (such as Airbus, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Thales) are aerospace & defence companies, and are therefore considered “essential” and exempt from closure...
October 2020
Superconductors - key to unlocking high power space missions
...to the large increase in mass and difficulty in stowing the panels for launch. Although new developments such as Northrop Grumman’s Megaflex arrays could potentially provide up to 300kW of power, these remain far away from flight. Artist’s impression...
