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Northrop Grumman Opens Purpose-Built Hypersonics Engine Facility

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Northrop Grumman Opens Purpose-Built Hypersonics Engine Facility
Northrop Grumman’s Hypersonic Capability Center in Elkton, Md. will manufacture ramjet and scramjet engines for hypersonic weapons. Photo: Northrop Grumman

Northrop Grumman [NOC] has opened a first-of-its-kind facility that integrates research, development, testing and production of hypersonic air-breathing propulsion systems to meet planned and future demand at scale, the company said on Thursday. Construction of the 60,000 square-foot Hypersonics Capability Center (HCC) in Elkton, Md., began in July 2021 and brings together digital engineering, modern manufacturing equipment, and the engineers and production teams “on the floor” to understand the impact of design decisions on manufacturing and on affordability, reliability and…

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