Space Science
Northrop Grumman spacecraft have supported NASA's quest for knowledge for more than four decades, exploring the space environment, mapping the skies and discovering deep space phenomena
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NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory (formerly called the Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility) is giving astronomers a new, clearer view of the universe.
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When launched early in the next decade, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will peer into the past and image galaxies and clusters of galaxies at greater distances than ever before.
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LCROSS will impact the moon's South Pole to search for water ice beneath its permanently-shadowed craters. NASA's next mission to the moon won't involve astronauts or merely orbit its surface. Prior to a human return to the moon, a mission is now underway to buld a satellite that will impact the moon's South Pole to search for water ice beneath its permanently-shadowed craters.
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A revolutionary spacecraft housing a high-precision optical interferometer will give astronomers the ability to precisely map the location and motion of stellar objects, and search for signs of earth-sized planets around stars close to the sun.
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