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  • Northrop Integrates Webb Space Telescope Sunshield Layers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Integrates Webb Space Telescope Sunshield Layers

    Northrop Grumman has integrated the last defense layers of a sun shield system built to protect optics and instruments of the James Webb Space Telescope from heat. The company said Monday its aerospace systems business designed the sun shield layers that will work to help reduce the temperatures between cold and hot JWST components. Huntsville, Alabama-based NeXolve manufactured the […] More

  • Northrop Receives Final NeXolve-Built Sunshield Layer for Webb Space Observatory - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Receives Final NeXolve-Built Sunshield Layer for Webb Space Observatory

    NeXolve has built and delivered the fifth sunshield layer for NASA‘s James Webb Space Telescope to Northrop Grumman‘s aerospace campus in Redondo Beach, California. NASA said Tuesday Northrop will integrate final flight layers into the telescope’s sunshield subsystem to support folding and deployment tests as part of the final system validation process. Northrop designed the telescope’s, optics and spacecraft bus as the […] More

  • ManTech Subsidiary Hands James Webb Telescope Sunshield to Northrop; Jim Flynn Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ManTech Subsidiary Hands James Webb Telescope Sunshield to Northrop; Jim Flynn Comments

    Northrop Grumman has received the first of the five sunshield membranes a ManTech International subsidiary produced for NASA‘s James Webb space telescope. Huntsville, Alabama-based NeXolve Corp. designed and manufactured the sunshield layers to help capture images of star and galaxy formation, Northrop said Wednesday. “We are thrilled to receive the first flight layer from NeXolve […] More