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Northrop Grumman Receives Contract for Low-Cost, Rapid Deployment of Small Satellites

Northrop Grumman Receives Contract for Low-Cost, Rapid Deployment of Small Satellites
Northrop Grumman's ESPAStar Platform is to help provide satellite technology maturation and low-cost and rapid launch of small satellites for national security purposes (Northrop Grumman Photo)

Northrop Grumman [NOC] has won a sole source, $22 million cost-plus-fixed-fee undefinitized contract through February, 2026 from U.S. Space Force's Space Systems Command for the Rapid On-orbit Space Technology Evaluation Ring (ROOSTER) effort, which is to provide low-cost and frequent deployment of small satellites to geostationary orbit for national security missions. The contract award said that ROOSTER is to be "a multi-manifest rideshare satellite supporting operational and prototype missions in a geostationary orbit and maturing technology needed to conduct on-orbit…

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