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Cygnus NG-18 was the seventh Cygnus mission under the Commercial Resupply Services-2 contract. Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems confirmed on 23 February 2021 that Thales Alenia Space of Turin, Italy, will fabricate two additional Pressurized Cargo Modules (PCMs) for a pair of forthcoming Commercial Resupply Services-2 missions.
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The contract to develop HACM further was awarded to Raytheon in September 2022. [10] HACM will use a Northrop Grumman scramjet. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] It is designed to be smaller than the AGM-183 ARRW and able to fly along “vastly different trajectories” than the boost-glide ARRW.
Cygnus NG-19 was the eighth Cygnus mission under the Commercial Resupply Services-2 contract. Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems confirmed on 23 February 2021 that Thales Alenia Space of Turin, Italy, will fabricate two additional Pressurized Cargo Modules (PCMs) for a pair of forthcoming Commercial Resupply Services-2 missions.
The Air Force subsequently halted funding for the Boeing project, leaving Northrop Grumman as the sole bidder for the contract by October 2019. [19] In December 2019, it was announced that Northrop Grumman won the competition to build the future ICBM. Northrop won by default, as their bid was the only one left to be considered for the GBSD program.
As a result Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Northrop Grumman was left with only two remaining Antares 230+ launch vehicles which were used for the CRS NG-18 and CRS NG-19 missions. Northrop Grumman acquired three flights from SpaceX with the Falcon 9 rocket while a replacement first stage and its engine are developed for its Antares 330 rocket. [50]
On 27 October 2015, the Defense Department awarded the development contract to Northrop Grumman. [71] The initial value of the contract is $21.4 billion, but the deal could eventually be worth up to $80 billion. [72] [73] [74] The deciding factor in the selection of the Northrop design was cost. [75]
At the same time contracts were also awarded to Raytheon, Northrop Grumman and BAE Systems. [ 11 ] After having existing jamming platforms thinly stretched over three wars during Operation Odyssey Dawn , the Navy accelerated the NGJ program and anticipated a vendor selection in 2013 instead of 2015 as previously planned.