Northrop Grumman opens Astro Aerospace facility in California

Celebrating the opening of the new Astro Aerospace facility were (left to right) Chris Yamada, vice president and general manager, aerospace products, Northrop Grumman; Rep. Julia Brownley (D-Calif.); Carmen Ramirez, Oxnard mayor pro tem; and Michael Cross, general manager, Astro Aerospace.

Northrop Grumman Corp. has opened a new Astro Aerospace facility in Oxnard, Calif. The 140,000-sq.-ft. manufacturing center enables concurrent manufacturing of large satellite reflectors and other space hardware and deployable structures.

Since 1958 Astro Aerospace has helped enable complex missions to Earth orbit, Mars, and beyond with its deployable space structures and mechanisms.