A Falcon 9 launched a Cygnus cargo spacecraft April 11 as Northrop Grumman continues its dependence on a competitor to fly resupply missions to the International Space Station.

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Northrop Grumman tested a solid rocket motor Dec. 4 as part of an internal program to advance solid rocket propulsion technologies.

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NASA has selected Northrop Grumman to provide cargo delivery services to the International Space Station once a spacecraft designed to deorbit the station is installed.

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A startup with a NASA contract to raise the decaying orbit of an astronomy satellite has selected the rarely used Pegasus rocket for the mission.

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SES is adding another servicer to what is already the broadest and busiest satellite life-extension roster in the commercial geostationary orbit market, with five missions now scheduled between 2026 and 2029.

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Launch companies are reiterating plans to sharply increase flight rates to meet growing government and commercial demand, even as some fall short of earlier projections.

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A Falcon 9 launched an upgraded version of a Cygnus cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station Sept. 14.

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A new version of the solid rocket booster being developed for the Space Launch System experienced an anomaly during a test firing in Utah June 26.

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Northrop Grumman is investing $50 million into Firefly Aerospace to further development of a medium-lift launch vehicle with a new name.

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The U.S. space industry is several years away from having the capacity for continuous satellite production, according to prime contractors speaking April 8 during a Space Symposium panel in Colorado Springs.

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Satellites are increasingly vulnerable to cyberattack, damage caused by laser weapons and jamming.

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Parallels with aviation and maritime industries offer important insights for managing increasingly congested orbits, according to a Feb. 6 panel of space technology executives at the SmallSat Symposium in Silicon Valley.

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NASA has extended three contracts with companies to continue providing transportation of cargo to and from the International Space Station through the projected end of the station’s life in 2030.

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SAN FRANCISCO — Firefly Aerospace won a contract to launch Quicksounder, a prototype for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s next-generation of environmental satellites in low-Earth orbit. The value of […]

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The three-year contract is part of the Defense Experimentation Using Commercial Space Internet (DEUCSI) program that leverages commercial space internet constellations for military communications.

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The Deep Space Advanced Radar Capability program aims to create a global network of ground-based radar systems to enhance space domain awareness by detecting and tracking objects in geosynchronous orbit

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A Falcon 9 launched a Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station Aug. 4, but the spacecraft suffered problems that have delayed maneuvers needed to reach the station.

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Companies selected by NASA to study alternative approaches to Mars Sample Return (MSR) have offered glimpses of their work that range from tweaking one component to overhauling the entire architecture.

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ASBM-1 and ASBM-2 host payloads from the U.S. military, the Norwegian Ministry of Defense and the commercial satellite operator Viasat

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NASA has selected seven companies to conduct studies of “out of the box” concepts for the agency’s Mars Sample Return (MSR) program that can deliver samples faster and cheaper than current plans.

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After conducting market research, the Space Systems Command said ‘limiting competition to the Boeing Company and Northrop Grumman is justified’

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Intelsat has signed a deal to use the MEV-2 servicer currently docked with its 10-02 satellite to extend the aging spacecraft’s life by four more years to 2030.

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The Evolved Strategic Satcom satellites are for command and control of U.S. nuclear forces

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The companies are working under the Defense Experimentation Using Commercial Space Internet (DEUCSI) program

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