NASA

Jet Propulsion Laboratories

Expanding Frontiers, Supporting Exploration
Over the course of our 20-year partnership, Northrop Grumman and NASA have expanded the frontiers of science and space, working together to overcome the formidable technical challenges of space exploration. Our scientists and engineers have contributed to many of NASA's most important programs - from the Hubble Space Telescope to the International Space Station to developing the technologies needed for tomorrow's "spacecraft on a chip." In addition, we supply the complete range of operations, engineering, and logistics services needed to support NASA's many facilities.

JPL - Unmanned Space Exploration
Northrop Grumman has provided groundbreaking engineering design and analysis capabilities to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California since 1983. One of the world's premier research centers, JPL is NASA's lead organization for the unmanned exploration of the solar system. Our solutions verify the soundness of construction and design. And, they enable spacecraft and payloads to endure and perform in the hostile environments experienced during launch and in space - through extremes of temperature, pressure, shock and vibration, and radiation.

Our services to JPL include:

• System engineering
• Reliability engineering
• Quality assurance
• System safety
• Environmental test
• System integration
• Space environments
• Technical standards
• Engineering practices
• IT software development
• Micro-Code for Mars Rovers

Manned Space Flight
For the Flight Simulation Laboratory, at the NASA Ames Research Center, Northrop Grumman designs, develops, integrates, tests, and operates advanced flight simulators, including the world's largest vertical amplitude, six-degree-of-freedom, motion-base simulator. At the NASA Glenn Research Center, we're helping to design and build the microgravity research facilities that astronauts will operate aboard the International Space Station.

Sounding Rockets
Our project teams provide total operation and maintenance for NASA's Sounding Rocket Program at Wallops Island, White Sands Missile Range, and other launch sites. NASA launches 30 sounding rockets every year for scientific exploration, research, and testing. The program has a distinguished history of providing important data to the scientific community, NASA's orbital space programs, the Department of Defense (DOD), other government agencies, and the international space community.

In support of this program, Northrop Grumman provides:

• Mission and vehicle systems design
• Manufacturing and fabrication
• Integration of launch vehicle and payload
• Qualification testing of launch vehicles and payloads
• Launch services
• Operation and maintenance of launch facilities and ground stations
• Payload recovery planning
• Post-flight operations and reports