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EO & GEOINT · OPERATOR PROFILE · DATA AS OF 2026-06-05

Northrop Grumman

Active NOC EO & GEOINT Public HQ: Falls Church, Virginia Founded 1939

Major defense prime. SDA satellites, MEV in-space servicing, launch vehicles, NASA HALO lunar gateway module.

78.1
ARI Composite
Very Low Risk
#2 of 40
Peer Rank
Defense cohort
71
Total Launches
As lead operator
NOC
Market cap
NYSE

FINANCIAL HEALTH

78.1
ARI composite · Very Low Risk
Peer rank#2 of 40
Peer groupDefense
Data coverage100%
Tracked gov contracts$25.58B across 177 awards

FLEET COMPOSITION

Every vehicle this operator has flown. Linked profiles carry the full reliability + reuse + subsystem record.

Vehicle Class Launches Success rate Reuse
Pegasus XL Micro 34 90.9% Expendable Profile →
Antares 230 13 100.0%
Pegasus Xl Haps 6 100.0%
Minotaur Iv 5 100.0%
Pegasus H 4 100.0%
Pegasus Haps 2 50.0%
Antares 120 2 100.0%
Antares 110 2 100.0%
Minotaur I 1 100.0%
Minotaur C 3210 1 100.0%
Antares 130 1 0.0%

RECENT LAUNCHES

Date Mission Vehicle Orbit Outcome
Jun 30, 2026 Swift Rescue Mission Pegasus XL LEO Delayed
Apr 07, 2026 STP-S29A Minotaur Iv LEO Success
Apr 07, 2026 ASTRA-HyRAX Minotaur Iv Success
Apr 16, 2025 [NRO Unk Smallsat 15] Minotaur Iv Success
Aug 02, 2023 Cygnus NG-19 Antares 230 Success
Nov 07, 2022 Cygnus NG-18 Antares 230 Success
Feb 19, 2022 Cygnus NG-17 Antares 230 Success
Aug 10, 2021 Cygnus NG-16 Antares 230 Success
Jun 15, 2021 [NRO Unk Smallsat 9] Minotaur I Success
Jun 13, 2021 Odyssey Pegasus XL Success

RECENT DEALS & CONTRACTS

Date Type Amount Counterparty Significance
May 11, 2026 Contract Award $8.4M National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION Medium
May 08, 2026 Contract Award $30.0M NASA, Katalyst Space Technologies Medium
Oct 01, 2024 Contract Award $87.2M National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION Medium
Sep 15, 2024 Contract Award $2.7M National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION Medium
Dec 25, 2022 Contract Award $25.8M National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION Medium

Full deal history →

SECTOR POSITION

Primary sectorEO & GEOINT
Rank within sector#2 of 40
Tracked peers40
Secondary sectors

RECENT COVERAGE

Date Source Headline
May 24, 2026 NASASpaceFlight Vehicle arrivals, science experiments, and maintenance keep Expedition 74 busy through April
May 14, 2026 Spaceflight Now ULA confirms successful solid rocket booster test as Vulcan anomaly investigation continues
May 12, 2026 Spaceflight Now For a second time, poor weather scrubs Cargo Dragon mission launch to the space station
May 12, 2026 NextSpaceflight Falcon 9 Block 5 | NROL-172
May 11, 2026 NASASpaceFlight Launch Preview: SpaceX and Chinese missions fill busy launch manifest

REGISTRY DATA

Legal nameNorthrop Grumman Corporation
Ticker / ExchangeNOC (NYSE)
OwnershipPublic
HeadquartersFalls Church, Virginia
CountryUS
Founded1939
CEOKathy Warden
AliasesNorthrop Grumman, NOC, NGC
SubsidiariesOrbital ATK
Key programsPegasus, Minotaur, MEV, SDA satellites, HALO module
Gov customersDoD, NASA, Space Force, NRO, SDA
IPO statusPublic

Source: space_company_registry.json · Operator homepage → · Northrop Grumman corporate homepage — confirms Space Systems sector operations (NYSE: NOC).

METHODOLOGY

Launch history and subsystem outcomes aggregate from AstraVeris's launch_events table with Wilson 95% lower bounds on success rates. ARI scores come from the 11-factor composite (/finance/methodology/). Constellation counts derive from the live CelesTrak/GCAT object catalog. Gov contracts from USAspending.gov awards; private deals from deduplicated pipeline deal extraction. Absence of a row means "not tracked" — we never fabricate. See /methodology/ for the full data model and /data-licensing/ for licensing terms.

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