As a guidance, navigation and control analyst and design engineer, Yesha solves critical problems for the warfighter at Northrop Grumman.
Solving Critical Problems for the Warfighter: Meet Yesha
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As a guidance, navigation and control analyst and design engineer, Yesha solves critical problems for the warfighter at Northrop Grumman.
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By Amanda Collins When something doesn’t go as planned after launch, you can’t pull a spacecraft back into the shop, take it apart and fix it. Often, you can’t even get a glimpse of what’s wrong. For most people — and companies — the story would stop there. But giving up isn’t an option for [...]Read More...
By Leigh McLeod Why go big when you can go small? For Radio Frequency (RF) Engineer Tim, that’s his modus operandi. Tim joined Northrop Grumman in May 2021 to work on a classified program in Aurora, Colorado, but quickly realized he missed working on RF, which he’d spent most of his career on. When he [...]Read More...
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After immigrating from war-torn Afghanistan, Sabawon eventually saw his hard work pay off when he joined Northrop Grumman.
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By Suzanne Kubler Electrical Engineer Larsha is a single mom. And for her, it’s the single most important role of her life — a life that was changed by a simple question from her son, Noah. When Noah was 11, he came home from school and asked if he could attend robotics camp. At the [...]Read More...
Northrop Grumman aerospace engineer Edwin Morales was born in East Los Angeles, California, but spent much of his childhood in Mexico.
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By Michelle A. Monroe Engineer Skylor is right at home in the cockpit of the sleek, red-and-white airplane he built with his father, Jim. “It was my father’s idea to build a plane, and I ran with it,” said Skylor, who spent nearly every weekend from 2003 to 2010 taking the project from concept to [...]Read More...
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Couple Celebrates Their Projects Colliding as Northrop Grumman Helps NASA Retrieve Spacecraft After Splashdown By Michelle A. Monroe Two aerospace engineers fall in love, get married and spend years in each other’s professional orbits before they finally collide. It’s a story practically written in the stars. Debra and Joe, who work for Northrop Grumman and [...]Read More...
Claire is a field engineer for Northrop Grumman’s Ionospheric Ground Sensors program – installing and maintaining 100-foot towers around the world.
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A manufacturing design engineer by training, the first time Jasmine saw a 3D-printed airplane part, she felt like she was starting an adventure.
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After giving birth to her daughter in 2013, Tina's perspective on her job changed and she sought a more even work-life balance at Northrop Grumman.
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At Northrop Grumman, internship programs and rotational training help prepare employees to achieve their career goals.
Building on the legacy of the Apollo and Space Shuttle programs, Northrop Grumman is pushing the limits of possible with the Artemis program, which will land the first woman and first person of color on the moon. The Artemis missions, fueled by the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, will establish the first long-term presence on and around the moon before taking the next giant leap: Mars.
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James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) is the closest thing we have to time travel, capturing images that offer a glimpse to the origins of the universe
Engineering Manager CJ used a Northrop Grumman perk to discover what was inside the World War II footlocker he inherited from his grandfather.
The program is focused on establishing a sustainable human presence in deep space, including ultimately landing the first woman on the Moon. Here at Northrop Grumman, women are leading the way to help achieve this history-making first.
Mei-Li considers engineering just one part of her identity. The nonprofit she co-founded, Atwero provides assistive devices to persons with disabilities in Uganda.
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The Missile Defense Agency’s (MDA) Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system is our country’s top defense against these types of threats; GMD uses a network of land, sea and space-based early warning sensors and fields of ground-based interceptor (GBI) missiles in Alaska and California to protect the United States from long-range ballistic missiles. The interceptors hit the enemy ICBMs in space, destroying them before they can do harm.
We are people – with careers across domains: air, cyber, land, sea and space. We work as one to defend and define the future through science, technology and engineering.
The aerodynamics textbook definition of “hypersonic” is travel at Mach 5 or greater — more than five times the speed of sound, almost a mile each second. Long-range hypersonic vehicles often utilize a scramjet engine, which leverages the vehicle’s high speed to compress incoming air through a special inlet into a combustion chamber.
While the payload of a space launch garners the most attention, it's the spacecraft bus that carries and supports every aspect of the mission for the life of that craft.
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Inside Northrop Grumman’s metallography lab in Redondo Beach, California, Engineer Kate Nabours and her colleagues uncover mission-critical details that are imperceptible to most people. Harnessing ultra-powerful microscopes, the close-knit team of technicians and engineers hunts for potential flaws in the microstructures — grain-like patterns visible only when magnified — of metals, alloys and other materials used in engine components, spacecraft and other products.
The Cygnus system is a flight proven design incorporating elements drawn from Northrop Grumman and its partners’ existing, flight-proven spacecraft technologies.
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