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While most Cygnus missions have been launched atop Northrop Grumman's Antares rocket from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, NG-21 was the second of three missions planned to launch atop the Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Northrop Grumman exhausted the supply of its Antares 230+ rocket after the NG-19 ...
NG-21 PCM Lift to Work Stand, SSPF Image title The Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft’s pressurized cargo module for the company’s 21st commercial resupply mission is lifted and moved by a crane inside the Space Systems Processing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday, June 1, 2024, as prelaunch processing ...
Northrop received a $935-million fixed price contract to build the module in 2021 and took a $42-million charge in last year's fourth quarter because of higher expenses, raising its 2023 program ...
As an interim solution, Northrup Grumman contracted with its CRS competitor SpaceX to launch NG-20, 21 and 22 using its Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket. With the launch of NG-20, Cygnus becomes only cargo freighter to launch on four different orbital launchers, that is, Antares rocket (100 series), Atlas V , Antares 200 series and Falcon 9.
That sounds good, until you realize that at a $73.9 billion market capitalization, it means Northrop Grumman stock currently costs nearly 30 times this year's free cash flow -- which seems quite a ...
In August 2023, Northrop Grumman announced a further enlarged Mission B version of Cygnus, with a 1.5 m (4.9 ft) stretch to the payload module and payload mass increased to 5,000 kg (11,000 lb). This version is expected to enter service with the NG-23 mission in 2025 (the first to use the new Antares 330 launch vehicle).
Northrop Grumman NASA (CRS) Success Cygnus NG-12 is the first mission under the NASA Commercial Resupply Services-2 contract. NG-12 is also the first to use upgraded launcher, Antares 230+. 12 February 15, 2020 20:21 Antares 230+ MARS, LP-0A Cygnus (enhanced) CRS NG-13 Robert Lawrence, Jr. 3,377 kg (7,445 lbs) LEO (ISS) Northrop Grumman NASA (CRS)
Defense contractor Northrop Grumman told its employees that about 1,000 jobs could be cut in Southern California after lost a big satellite contract.