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Northrop Grumman Delivers Spacecraft Bus to L3Harris for NTS-3 Air Force Vanguard Program

Frank Wolfe

Thursday, July 1st, 2021

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Northrop Grumman Delivers Spacecraft Bus to L3Harris for NTS-3 Air Force Vanguard Program

Northrop Grumman said it has delivered its ESPAStar-D spacecraft bus to L3Harris Technologies for the NTS-3 experiment (Northrop Grumman Photo)

Northrop Grumman [NOC] has delivered its ESPAStar-D spacecraft bus to L3Harris Technologies [LHX] in Palm Bay, Fla. in preparation for the planned fall 2023 launch of the National Technology Satellite-3 (NTS-3)--one of four Department of the Air Force Vanguard programs to push the technology envelope. The geosynchronous orbit NTS-3, which the Air Force named a Vanguard in 2019, aims to alleviate interference to satellite position, navigation and timing, including for the U.S. Space Force's GPS satellites. Northrop Grumman said that…

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