Northrop Grumman Aiming to Nearly Double Solid-Rocket Motor Production Rate by 2029

Northrop Grumman aiming to nearly double solid-rocket motor production rate by 2029

ELKTON, MD -- Northrop Grumman plans to double its solid-rocket motor production from 13,000 per year, as of 2024, to 25,000 in 2029. To aid that effort, the company is building its new 57,000-square-foot Propulsion Innovation Center here, which is part of a $100 million investment to meet the Pentagon’s increasing needs for solid-rocket motor propulsion and hypersonic airbreathing propulsion. Construction on the Propulsion Innovation Center is …

Northrop Grumman celebrates construction milestone

ELKTON — Northrop Grumman held a special ceremony Monday to lay the final steel beam on their Propulsion Innovation Center at the campus on Nottingham Road in Elkton.

Northrop Grumman to invest $50 million into Antares 330 to be launched from Wallops

By Linda Cicoira Northrop Grumman is investing $50 million into Firefly Aerospace to speed their joint production of the Antares 330 rocket and the newly named Eclipse medium launch vehicle that will be launched from Wallops Island, “as early as 2026. The two companies see the rocket as a contender for Space Force’s National Security Space Launch Program or NSSL, ...