The Litening ATP (advanced targeting pod) has completed its first test flights on the U.S. Navy F/A-18F Super Hornet, Northrop Grumman announced on Sept. 7, 2022. The pod is an electro-optical infrared sensor system, already used for targeting and surveillance purposes by several operators all around the world. It has logged more than 3 million operational hours and over 1 million hours in combat enabling aircrews to detect, acquire, identify and track targets at long ranges with an availability rate greater than 95%.
Earlier this year the U.S. Navy has selected the combat proven Litening as the replacement of the legacy targeting pods used by the Super Hornet fleet. The latter have so far used the AN/ASQ-228 ATFLIR (Advanced Tactical Forward Looking Infrared) but in 2019 the naval service started evaluating different options, including the improvement or replacement of the EO/IR pods, over concerns about the hardware’s readiness state and sustainment cost. ull report at TheAviationist.com (link in bio, direct link to article in IG story) #theaviationist#f18superhornet#usnavy#liteningpod#atflirpod#superhornet#northropgrumman#northrop
Drone RQ-4 RangeHawk buatan Northrop Grumman akan mendukung uji terbang rudal hipersonik AS dalam program SkyRange dari fasilitas Grand Sky di dekat Grand Forks, North Dakota.
SkyRange adalah sistem uji penerbangan seluler tak berawak ketinggian tinggi, berumur panjang, dan responsif dari Pusat Manajemen Sumber Daya Uji Departemen Pertahanan (TRMC)
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https://www.airspace-review.com/2022/08/31/drone-rq-4-rangehawk-akan-dukung-uji-rudal-hipersonik-as/
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International Space Station Configuration: Five spaceships are parked at the space station including the SpaceX Crew Dragon Freedom; the Northrop Grumman Cygnus space freighter; and Russia's Soyuz MS-21 crew ship and the Progress 80 and 81 resupply ships.
On Monday at 10:20 a.m. Central time, Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus NG CRS-17 engine was scheduled to fire for 5 minutes, 1 second to test the cargo craft’s ability to reboost the International Space Station in the future. The engine firing was aborted after five seconds. Cygnus’ Mission Director at Dulles, Virginia reported the cause for the abort is under review.
NASA and Northrop Grumman flight controllers are reviewing data from today’s attempt and will develop a plan for the next steps needed to continue development of this enhanced capability as a standard service for NASA.
The Expedition 67 crew, which was never in any danger, is continuing its regular regime of work aboard the complex, which is orbiting around 260 miles above the Earth.
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Northrop Grummans's Cygnus space freighter, with its prominent cymbal-shaped UltraFlex solar arrays, is pictured approaching the International Space Station on Feb. 21, 2022, carrying 8,300 pounds of new science experiments, crew supplies, and station hardware
Astronauts Bob Hines, Kjell Lindgren, Jessica Watkins, and Samantha Cristoforetti have been loading the Cygnus resupply ship with trash and discarded gear ahead of its departure on Thursday, June 23.
On Saturday, June 18, the Cygnus spacecraft will perform its first limited reboost of the space station. Cygnus’ gimbaled delta velocity engine will be used to adjust the station’s orbit through a reboost of the altitude of the space station.
This Cygnus mission is the first to feature this enhanced capability as a standard service for NASA, following a test of the maneuver which was performed in 2018 during Cygnus’s ninth resupply mission.
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