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Officials at the American space agency announce that three new contracts have been awarded to corporations in the United States, all of them for the development of technologies related to the boosters that will power up NASA's new rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS).
The new grants total about $137.3 million,... |
2 October 2012
04:12 GMT |
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Officials from NASA recently released a new image of a Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), one of the two such aircraft that the space agency operates. This particular one was imaged on September 7, in Virginia.
Usually based at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, in California, the UAV is seen here insid... |
27 September 2012
02:55 GMT |
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Officials with the Boulder, Colorado-based Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation announced yesterday, September 19, that the first batch of the mirrors that NASA ordered for the James Webb Space Telescope has been shipped to the American space agency.
The event represents a significant milestone in the observato... |
20 September 2012
05:57 GMT |
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Officials at the Northrop Grumman Corporation announce that the communications support structure for the next-generation NASA James Webb Space Telescope has just passed a Critical Design Review.
The milestone maintains the development of the telescope, sunshield and spacecraft on track for a 2018 launch date. Northr... |
21 August 2012
05:35 GMT |
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Officials at the North Grumman Corporation (NGC) announce that the United States Navy conducted the first-ever flight test of the X-47B Autonomous Unmanned Aircraft over the US East Coast.
The flight mission took place on July 29, at 11:36 am EDT (1536 GMT), and saw the vehicle soar into the sky above the Naval Air ... |
30 July 2012
09:03 GMT |
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Officials at the Northrop Grumman Corporation (NGC) are pleased to announce that their next-generation design for the Modular Space Vehicle (MSV) has just been approved, based on the conclusions of a two-day Spacecraft Baseline Interim Design Review. The assessment completed the Spacecraft Bus Critical Design Review... |
28 June 2012
11:49 GMT |
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In 2018, the American space agency plans to launch the next-generation James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Over the past year or so, things have begun moving along efficiently, as demonstrated by a new, successful test conducted on the large observatory's massive sunshield.
This component is of critical importa... |
28 June 2012
05:53 GMT |
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Officials at the Northrop Grumman Corporation presented the first MQ-4C Triton Broad Area Maritime Surveillance Unmanned Aircraft System (BAMS UAS) to the US Navy, during a ceremony held in Palmdale, California, on Thursday, June 14.
According to the company, the autonomous flying vehicle is an important strategic ... |
15 June 2012
09:22 GMT |
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Officials at the Northrop Grumman Corporation and the United States Air Force (USAF) announce that the second X-47B drone will be moved to the East Coast, after successfully completing its airworthiness test phase in California.
The X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) demonstrator aircraft was developed under t... |
14 June 2012
10:04 GMT |
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The primary mirrors on the NASA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) contain 18 hexagonal parts, which are oriented in respect to each other by individual actuators located underneath. All of them are attached to a hardware component called a tower, which was recently completed by engineers.
The Northrop Grumman Corpor... |
8 May 2012
10:55 GMT |
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Officials at Northrop Grumman Corporation, one of two main contractors on NASA's next-generation James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), announce that yet another critical component for the future spacecraft has been completed, and passed an important design review.
Scientists at the company recently completed engi... |
18 April 2012
05:44 GMT |
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Officials at the Northrop Grumman Corporation announce that they have just received the first flight recorder that will go on the NASA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The instrument was built by Centennial, Colorado-based SEAKR Engineering, Inc.
The flight recorder is a solid-state electronics unit that will capt... |
3 April 2012
10:47 GMT |
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The X-47B Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) developed by Northrop Grumman is about to attempt to conduct a mid-air refueling, a process through which fuel is transferred from a tanker aircraft to the robotic aircraft. If this is successful, then the UAV may gain global coverage.
Northrop developed this aircraft especia... |
27 January 2012
10:55 GMT |
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The NASA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) development program has reached a new milestone recently, when both the primary and secondary mirrors that will go on the massive observatory successfully completed cryogenic testing. This phase is absolutely essential for the good functioning of the JWST, which will be th... |
22 December 2011
03:31 GMT |
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Engineers with the Northrop Grumman Corporation announced that the 14 tubes, which would make up half of the Mid Boom Assembly on the NASA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), had just been completed. This marks an important milestone in the observatory's development.
The MBA is made up of 14 graphite composite ... |
12 December 2011
10:36 GMT |
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About a week ago, the second X-47B unmanned aerial vehicle took off from the Edwards Air Force Base (EAFB), in California, at around 12:43 pm PST (2043 GMT). This was the second prototype of the new drone that flew successfully from California. As a result, the US Navy and Northrop Grumman – the company behind ... |
28 November 2011
11:03 GMT |
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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) construction process can now continue at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). Recently, an impressive steel structure was delivered to a clean room at the Center, on which the telescope's components will be mounted.
The steel frame is called the optical assembly sta... |
18 November 2011
03:58 GMT |
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The X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System, which was developed by the Northrop Grumman Corporation and the United States Navy, has just been awarded the 2011 Best of What's New (BOWN) award in the Aviation & Space category of Popular Science magazine.
Officials at Northrop are very pleased about getting this nod, si... |
16 November 2011
10:48 GMT |
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Officials at the West Falls Church, Virginia-based Northrop Grumman Corporation, announce that their Modular Space Vehicle (MSV) project managed to pass its preliminary design review (PDR) test with flying colors. This allows the company to start focusing on further developing the spacecraft.
At this point, the Nor... |
14 November 2011
15:01 GMT |
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Officials at Northrop Grumman say that the Space Tracking and Surveillance System Demonstration Satellites (STSS) they built have already successfully completed their mission, ahead of schedule.
The spacecraft celebrated their 2-year anniversary on September 25. The main purpose of the STSS network is to track miss... |
10 November 2011
04:53 GMT |
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On Wednesday, October 26, a permanent exhibit dedicated to the NASA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was inaugurated at the Maryland Science Center, in Baltimore, Maryland. The ceremony was attended by US Senator Barbara Mikulski (D.-Md) and NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver.
Most of the exhibits to be displaye... |
27 October 2011
14:01 GMT |
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A group of officials from NASA, the US Senate and a number of universities and museums can be seen in this October 26 image posing in front of a full-scale model of the NASA James Webb Space Telescope. The model is currently exhibited at the Maryland Science Center, in Baltimore.
Former NASA astronaut and Deputy Di... |
27 October 2011
03:00 GMT |
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The National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Preparatory Project (NPP) spacecraft is scheduled to launch later this month. Already stowed aboard is another CERES instrument, built by the Northrop Grumman Corporation.CERES, which stands for Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy ... |
19 October 2011
10:15 GMT |
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Officials at the Northrop Grumman Corporation announce that their X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System Demonstration aircraft took its first flight in a cruise configuration on September 30.
The achievement marks an important milestone for the program, which is developed for the US Navy. Now that the aircraft is prove... |
10 October 2011
09:54 GMT |
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Engineers working for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) development program at major contractor Northrop Grumman have recently began the first rounds of tests on the massive observatory's solar shield material.
The JWST is the largest, most advanced space telescope ever built, and as such sports its own ... |
19 September 2011
16:31 GMT |
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NASA and the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have just awarded a new contract to Azusa, California-based Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, for the development of an advanced instrument that will go on the first Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS-1) satellite.
Northrop now benefits fr... |
15 September 2011
04:57 GMT |
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Engineers from the leading military contractor Northrop Grumman and the United States Navy announce the successful completion of a series of tests, meant to prove that the newly-developed X-47B Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle (UCAV) can be operated from aircraft carriers. The X-47B – developed from the X-47A Peg... |
6 July 2011
03:01 GMT |
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Officials at the American space agency announce that the remaining 12 mirror segments for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have finally been polished. This marks the completion of this leg of the construction efforts, which was deemed to be one of the most complex. The completion of mirror polishing represents o... |
1 July 2011
04:30 GMT |
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Northrop Grumman, the second largest U.S. government contractor, has abruptly suspended remote access to its network last week, raising suspicions of a cyber attack.Fox News quotes a confidential source inside the company who claims the suspension came without any advance notice on May 26."We went through a domain na... |
2 June 2011
06:55 GMT |
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Officials from the United States Air Force (USAF) finally authorized the funding of the Defense Weather Satellite System (DWSS). The contract was awarded to the Northrop Grumman Corporation.The authorization came from USAF commanders at the Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC), which is based at the Los Angeles Air... |
25 May 2011
19:01 GMT |
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This week marks an important milestone for the James Webb Space Telescope project, say mission managers at NASA. The first six of 18 mirror segments on the future observatory are scheduled to begin non-stop cryogenic tests.JWST will feature a large primary mirror assembly, which will have a diameter of 6.5 meters (21... |
15 April 2011
03:24 GMT |
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Scientists with the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) announce that they have just received two brand-new mirrors at their facility. The devices are unique, and their role is to enable the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to see farther into the cosmic past than possible before. The observatory is currently sc... |
14 April 2011
10:31 GMT |
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The effort to construct the massive James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has reached a critical mission milestone on April 6. Engineers managed to complete the construction of a giant structural steel frame, that will act as a stand for the components of the flight optics system. What the huge assembly will do is it wil... |
7 April 2011
04:49 GMT |
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On February 4, officials from the United States Navy and Northrop Grumman witnessed the maiden flight of a new airborne system. The aircraft was developed to meet the Navy's requirements for the new war zones it's currently engaged in.People who saw the X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System Demonstration (UCAS-D... |
8 February 2011
05:41 GMT |
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The American space agency announces the awarding of two new research contracts, which deal with the design and development of concepts that will holds relevant for the aeronautics industry of tomorrow.NASA is looking for ideas on how to go about constructing the next generation of advanced airliners, crafts that woul... |
24 November 2010
17:01 GMT |
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When completed, the James Webb Space Telescope will be the most complex space observatory ever built, and ensuring that this will happen on time is a new Mission Systems Engineering team.The group is made up of experts at Northrop Grumman, the main contractor the American space agency selected for this project, and t... |
19 October 2010
09:20 GMT |
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Experts working on constructing the next-generation NASA space telescope say that the spacecraft's sunshield, an essential component in the mission, has just passed another series of critical review tests. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is planned as a replacement for the Hubble Space Telescope, and it is... |
9 October 2010
06:57 GMT |
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Officials say that the first of the primary mirror segments to go on NASA's future James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has just completed the final stage of the manufacturing process. This means that the first of several mirror segments is now ready to be installed on the bus that will eventually form the massive ... |
31 August 2010
10:22 GMT |
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Recently, experts at Northrop Grumman needed only four days to install a full-scale model of NASA's future James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), in New York. Unlike a model, designing, developing, building and commissioning a “real” space telescope takes years of hard work, until all systems are integra... |
25 August 2010
08:48 GMT |
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Even though the famous Hubble Space Telescope was repaired and upgraded in May 2009, it is clear that the technology on it cannot help the machine keep its dominant position for much longer. NASA is already working on a replacement for it, the massive James Webb Space Telescope, which will truly be a sight to behold ... |
3 March 2010
06:00 GMT |
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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will be the largest observation instrument ever delivered into space during a single rocket launch. Only the International Space Station (ISS) will exceed it in size, but it will come nowhere near its capabilities of observing the early Universe in infrared wavelengths. But, in a... |
3 February 2010
06:38 GMT |
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The 2009 Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander X Prize Challenge (LLC) has finally come to an end last week, as the final two teams tried their best to complete the first and second stages of the match-up. Already in the cards was Rockwall, Texas-based Armadillo Aerospace, a company that managed to complete both stages of th... |
3 November 2009
11:02 GMT |
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Scientists from two teams have until this Saturday, October 31, to prevent the top prize of the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge, valued at $1 million, to go to Rockwall, Texas-based Armadillo Aerospace. Throughout this week, the two groups will compete back-to-back, in order to demonstrate that their vehicles... |
26 October 2009
11:38 GMT |
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Journalism students from University of British Columbia (UBC), who were investigating e-waste dumping in underdeveloped countries, have uncovered a serious data breach. They have found U.S. government contracts marked sensitive on a scrapped HDD acquired from an open-air market in Ghana. UBC Associate Professor Pete... |
26 June 2009
05:48 GMT |
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The Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) observation system is one of NASA's ongoing projects that is related to understanding the role of clouds in the atmosphere and the energy cycle in a global climate change. The satellite is part of the agency's Earth Observing System (EOS), alongs... |
4 May 2009
14:01 GMT |
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I have recently told you about the Microsoft's Surface or the Rosie Coffee Table's capabilities of creating real interactivity with their users. I mentioned back then that the only difference between the two of them was given by the target customers.This time, it's Northrop Grumman's turn to launc... |
7 September 2007
07:09 GMT |
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