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Terrain Vehicle

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Highly specialized team to design vehicle for sustainable lunar
surface mobility operations
Space * NASA
November 16, 2021
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DULLES, Va. - Nov. 16, 2021 - Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:
NOC), is teaming up with AVL, Intuitive Machines, Lunar Outpost, and
Michelin to design a Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTV) to transport NASA's
Artemis astronauts around the lunar surface. This team provides
multi-disciplinary expertise that is ready to deliver an innovative
solution to NASA for lunar surface mobility.

"Together with our teammates, we will provide NASA with an agile and
affordable vehicle design to greatly enhance human and robotic
exploration of the lunar surface to further enable a sustainable
human presence on the Moon and, ultimately, Mars," said Steve Krein,
vice president, civil and commercial space, tactical space systems
division, Northrop Grumman.

Northrop Grumman Announces Team for NASAs Next-Generation Lunar
Terrain Vehicle
The Northrop Grumman-led team will provide NASA with an affordable
and sustainable vehicle design that will expand human and robotic
exploration of the lunar surface.

As prime, Northrop Grumman will lead systems integration, bridging
its own flight-proven experience with spacecraft design to include
cargo storage, energy management, avionics, navigation, sensors,
controls, mission planning, operations and training, with the
following teammate capabilities:

  * AVL, an industry-leader for the development, simulation, and
    testing of vehicle systems, will bring its expertise in the
    advancement of battery electric vehicles, autonomous driving, and
    propulsion solutions to make lunar surface mobility a reality.
  * Intuitive Machines will build on its capability developed through
    NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative to
    meet NASA and commercial demand for larger lunar surface payload
    delivery. Their Nova-D spacecraft utilizes four liquid methane/
    oxygen engines from the mature Nova-C program for precision
    landing on the Moon.
  * Lunar Outpost, a leader in lunar mobility platforms, will
    leverage its expertise in rapid innovation, dust mitigation and
    thermal technologies from the development of its MAPP rover to
    help deliver a robust, cutting-edge LTV solution.
  * Michelin will leverage the experience gained from previous
    collaborations with NASA to build lunar rovers, its expertise in
    high-tech materials, and the know-how acquired in the development
    of airless solutions for extreme applications to design an
    airless tire solution for the LTV.

In addition to the proven expertise brought by the teammates,
Northrop Grumman has engaged Apollo astronauts Dr. Harrison (Jack)
Schmitt and Charles Duke, to incorporate their hands-on experiences
into the design for the LTV-allowing the team to optimize the vehicle
for the needs of NASA researchers and Artemis astronauts.

Watch the video introducing the Lunar Terrain Vehicle Team here.

To learn more about Northrop Grumman's Lunar Terrain Vehicle and the
contributions from each partner, click here.

Northrop Grumman is a technology company, focused on global security
and human discovery. Our pioneering solutions equip our customers
with capabilities they need to connect, advance and protect the U.S.
and its allies. Driven by a shared purpose to solve our customers'
toughest problems, our 90,000 employees define possible every day.

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