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You are here: Home / News / Saturn Satellite Networks to Launch Their NationSats via Northrop Grumman’s OmegA Launch Vehicle

Saturn Satellite Networks to Launch Their NationSats via Northrop Grumman’s OmegA Launch Vehicle

December 12, 2019 by editorial

Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) announced that Saturn Satellite Networks (SSN) has selected the OmegA space launch vehicle to launch up to two satellites on the rocket’s inaugural flight scheduled for spring 2021.

OmegA will launch from Kennedy Space Center’s Pad 39B and insert the SSN satellites into a geosynchronous transfer orbit. Northrop Grumman Signs Customer for First Flight of OmegA™. Last October, the U.S. Air Force awarded Northrop Grumman a $792 million Launch Services Agreement to complete detailed design and verification of the OmegA launch vehicle and launch sites.


Northrop Grumman’s OmegA rocket will launch up to two satellites manufactured by Saturn Satellite Networks in the spring of 2021.

Image is courtesy of Northrop Grumman.

Northrop Grumman has a distinguished heritage in space launch. In 1990, the company developed Pegasus™, the world’s first privately developed space launch system. The company’s Minotaur launch vehicle has achieved 100 percent success on its 18 space missions and nine suborbital missions. Northrop Grumman’s Antares™ rocket has launched more than 70,000 pounds of food, equipment and supplies to the astronauts aboard the International Space Station.

Scott Lehr, VP and GM, flight systems, Northrop Grumman, said the OmegA rocket expands Northrop Grumman’s launch capabilities beyond our small and medium class rockets, which have successfully launched nearly 80 missions. Expanding the company’s launch capabilities to the intermediate/heavy class with OmegA complements our national security satellite portfolio and enables us to better support customers.”

Jim Simpson, CEO of Saturn, said the company is excited to launch Saturn’s NationSat on Northrop Grumman’s OmegA launch vehicle’s inaugural mission. OmegA’s performance, payload accommodations, and rigorous certification program assures us it is a great fit for NationSats and the firm’s customers.

Charlie Precourt, VP, propulsion systems, Northrop Grumman, added that the first flight of OmegA is a key step in the company’s certification process for the U.S. Air Force National Security Space Launch program. Having Saturn’s NationSat on board for this mission further demonstrates the versatility of OmegA to serve other markets, including commercial and civil government. Northrop Grumman designed OmegA to use the most reliable propulsion available—solid propulsion for the boost stages and flight proven RL10 engines for the upper stage—to ensure exceptional mission assurance for the firm’s customers. Northrop Grumman’s technical expertise is both broad and deep, and the company brings unmatched experience, stability and a strong customer focus to every partnership.

 

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