• Northrop Grumman won a Department of War Innovation Unit award to deliver a prototype satellite for the GHOST-R mission.
• Program targets space domain awareness in geosynchronous orbit, expanding the company’s role in lower-cost, proliferated space systems.
• Prototype to use the ESPASat-L bus with a commercially supplied optical sensor, delivery targeted within 24 months.
• Work to be carried out at satellite manufacturing sites in Dulles, Virginia, and Gilbert, Arizona, for delivery to the U.S. Space Force.

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