Northrop Grumman Corporation has received the first test terminal for the Department of Defense’s next-generation Advanced Extremely High Frequencies (EHF) satellite system from Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Lincoln Laboratory. Northrop […]
Harvesting Mars
A NASA-supported scientist is learning how to use carbon dioxide–the main gas in Mars’ atmosphere–to harvest rocket fuel and water from the red planet. August 20, 2003: When astronauts first […]
NASA Announces Microgravity Combustion Science Grants
NASA selected 21 researchers to receive grants totaling approximately $9.4 million to conduct ground-based microgravity combustion research. The researchers will have access to NASA’s microgravity facilities including drop-tubes, drop-towers, and […]
Sea Launch Receives 2003 ISCe Innovation Award
Sea Launch received the 2003 ISCe Innovation Award during the International Satellite & Communications exchange annual Awards Dinner and Reception on Wednesday, August 20. The event was held as part […]
DART Spacecraft Demonstrator Completes Design Certification
The Demonstration for Autonomous Rendezvous Technology (DART) spacecraft, recently completed design certification review for the Orbital Space Plane (OSP) program. The OSP is a NASA initiative to develop a crew […]
Loral and Mitsubishi electric complete in-orbit testing of Optus C1
Multi-band Military and Commercial Satellite Begins Service Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), a subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications (OTCBB: LRLSQ), today announced that the Optus C1 communications satellite, built by SS/L […]
Protecting America’s Spacecraft
KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, NM. — Since Sputnik first circled the earth nearly half a century ago, aerospace engineers have searched for better ways to protect spacecraft from the violent […]
MDA Signs $2.1 Monitoring and Mapping Order
MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. announced today that the company’s Geographic Information Products Group has been awarded a $2.1 million (CDN) order by an Asian customer for information products from […]
Northrop Grumman Announces Share Repurchase Program and Declares Quarterly Dividends
Northrop Grumman Corporation’s board of directors today approved a share repurchase program of up to $700 million of its outstanding common stock and declared quarterly dividends on its common and […]
U.S. Army Selects Northrop Grumman Design Concept for Mobile High-Energy Laser Weapon for Tactical Missile Defense
The U.S. Army and the Israeli Ministry of Defense (IMoD) have selected a Northrop Grumman Corporation design concept for the Mobile Tactical High-Energy Laser (MTHEL) prototype, a laser weapon capable […]