Our industry leadership is based on more than fifty years of innovation and excellence, advancing yesterday's imagination of the possibilities of aerospace to today's technological advances in numerous fields.

Northrop Grumman Space Technology was formed in 1953, when Simon Ramo and Dean Wooldridge formed a new company, Ramo-Wooldridge, and received a contract to oversee the U.S. Air Force ICBM program. In 1958, the company provided NASA with the first satellite ever built by private industry, Pioneer 1.

The company has built more than 195 communications, defense and scientific spacecraft; produced, integrated, and tested more than 130 communications payloads and subsystems; developed more than 200 advanced space instruments, and integrated more than 550 experiments into their host spacecraft. It has also defined the state of the art in several emerging technologies, including microelectronics and high-energy lasers.

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