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...
Space Systems Additive Manufacturing
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Northrop Grumman has been defining possible with space additive manufacturing for more than 20 years, leveraging diverse processes and metallic materials, offering significant advantages.
LR-450 Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU)
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The LR-450 incorporates Northrop Grumman’s milli-HRG™ (mHRG™) Precision Space Gyroscope, which uses the same critical quartz components — high-Q resonator and inner electrode assembly — employed in Northrop Grumman’s proven hemispherical resonator gyroscope (HRG) technology. The HRG has achieved more than 70 million error-free hours in space missions.
Advanced Composite Structures
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Focused on performance, reduced cost and lead time, our advanced manufacturing processes produce the highest quality of aerostructures.
Space
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Northrop Grumman solves the toughest problems in space.