antwhat, 2 months ago to Trains

I made a meme.
#Rail #Railroads #Railroad #moon #lunar #Northrop #NorthropGrumman

https://m.universetoday.com/@fraser/112123560891276110

spaceflight, 2 months ago to SpaceX

• #SpaceX $175 billion 💰
• #Airbus $125 bn
• #Boeing $125 bn
• #LockheedMartin $102 bn
• #Safran $85 bn
• #NorthropGrumman $67.51 bn
• #MitsubishiHeavy $24.7 bn
• #Leonardo $11.85 bn
• #SierraSpace $5.3 bn
• #RelativitySpace $4.2 bn
• #IHI $3.21 bn
• #RocketLab $2.73 bn
• #EchoStar $1.79 bn
• #Firefly $1.5 bn
• #AxiomSpace $1 bn
• #VirginGalactic $767 million
• #ispace $680 mn
• #PlanetLabs $610 mn
• #VardaSpace $500 mn
• #AST SpaceMobile $435 mn 💵
https://www.insidermonkey.com/blog/20-most-valuable-space-companies-in-the-world-1259496/

#SpaceCompany

itnewsbot, 3 months ago to SpaceX

Rocket Report: SpaceX at the service of a rival; Endeavour goes vertical - Enlarge / Space shuttle Endeavour, seen here in protective wrapping, wa... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2000721 #internationalspacestation #humanspaceflight #northropgrumman #rocketreport #spaceshuttle #starship #cygnus #spacex #space #iran

itnewsbot, 7 months ago to science

Northrop Grumman likely to end its bid for a commercial space station - Enlarge / Northrop Grumman proposed a free-flying space station based o... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1972504 #northropgrumman #science #space #nasa

spaceflight, 9 months ago to progress

#NorthropGrumman’s #Cygnus is to maneuver the #ISS several times over its 90-day stay as part of a certification process to augment the ISS altitude raising and #orbital debris avoidance capabilities currently provided by Russian #Soyuz and #Progress vehicles. https://aviationweek.com/defense-space/space/northrop-grumman-demos-space-station-reboost-capability

itnewsbot, 9 months ago to science

A flawless Cygnus launch brings eras to a close - Enlarge (credit: NASA)

WALLOPS ISLAND, Va.—I had been told tha... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1958346 #northropgrumman #spaceflight #science #antares #wallops #cygnus #space #iss

spaceflight, 9 months ago to languagelearning

#NorthropGrumman's final #Antares* launch tonight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0PQdwLySAQ

• Powered by two #Russian 🇷🇺 -made engines affixed to the bottom of a first-stage #booster built in #Ukraine 🇺🇦 https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/07/end-of-the-line-for-russia-and-ukraines-partnership-in-rocketry/

#Cygnus #ISS #SpaceLogistics

itnewsbot, 9 months ago to science

End of the line for Russia and Ukraine’s partnership in rocketry - Enlarge / Northrop Grumman's Antares rocket rolls out of its hangar at ... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1957889 #internationalspacestation #northropgrumman #science #antares #ukraine #wallops #cygnus #russia #space

itnewsbot, 10 months ago to space

Viasat’s new broadband satellite could be a total loss - Enlarge / This artist's illustration of the ViaSat-3 Americas satellite... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1954185 #northropgrumman #broadband #satellite #boeing #viasat #space

spaceflight, 11 months ago to space

#Weirdly, a #NASA official says fixed-price contracts do the agency “no good” 🤦‍♂️ https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/06/weirdly-a-nasa-official-says-fixed-price-contracts-do-the-agency-no-good

DoomsdaysCW, 1 year ago to random

@opensecrets "The Department of Defense’s five biggest contractors — #LockheedMartin, #Boeing, #Raytheon, #GeneralDynamics and #NorthropGrumman — all reported 'strong' first quarters, even as all but Boeing spent less on federal lobbying in the first quarter of 2023 than in recent years."
https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2023/05/revolving-door-lobbyists-help-defense-contractors-get-off-to-strong-start-in-2023
#RevolvingDoor #Lobbyists #NoWar #EndlessWar

spaceflight, 1 year ago to Ukraine

🇺🇸 #NorthropGrumman's #Antares, the purpose-built launcher of the Station’s #Cygnus cargo resupply #spacecraft, is nearing a #pause in launches. The #rocket’s 🚀 first stages have been manufactured by #Pivdenmash in #Ukraine 🇺🇦. Each first stage featured two #Russian-made 🇷🇺 RD-181 #engines https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2022/12/iss-2022-roundup/

#SpaceCompany #SpacePolitics #RocketEngine #ISS #cargo

spaceflight, 1 year ago to space

#NASA's #OSAM-1 (On-#orbit Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing) #satellite servicing and refueling ⛽ scheduled after 📆 2025 https://nexis.gsfc.nasa.gov/OSAM-1.html

#SmithsonianMagazine 📆 March 2, 2022 in 📆 2020, the aerospace company #NorthropGrumman successfully launched two “mission extension vehicles,” equipped with their own engines and fuel, that attached themselves to two commercial satellites 🛰️ and boosted them into new #orbits. #Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites by #DARPA is scheduled for 📆 2024 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/robots-may-soon-fix-fuel-satellites-in-space-180979659

#AeroSpace #robot companies in #OpenStreetMap : https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/aerospace%3Aproduct=robot

#SpaceRobot #SpaceMaintenance

spaceflight, 1 year ago to instagramreality

📆 1956 #SpaceStation vision about to become #reality https://youtu.be/5JJL8CUfF-o

#OrbitalAssembly https://orbitalassembly.com/voyager

#HumanSpaceflight #SpaceTourism #SpaceHotel