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Northrop Grumman LN-200
The Northrop Grumman LN-200 is a solid-state inertial measurement unit using fiber-optic gyros and silicon accelerometers, the first FOG-based IMU, flown on NASA's Mars rovers since 2004.
Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Triton
The Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Triton is a high-altitude, long-endurance Navy drone derived from the RQ-4 Global Hawk, providing persistent maritime surveillance alongside the P-8A Poseidon.
Northrop Grumman MQ-8 Fire Scout
The Northrop Grumman MQ-8 Fire Scout, originally designated RQ-8A, is an unmanned autonomous helicopter built for the United States Navy, with MQ-8B and larger MQ-8C variants.
Northrop Grumman Pegasus
The Northrop Grumman Pegasus, also known as the Pegasus XL, is an American three-stage, solid-propellant, winged orbital rocket carried aloft under an airplane, first reaching orbit in 1990.
Northrop Grumman RQ-180
The Northrop Grumman RQ-180 is a highly classified, high-altitude stealth unmanned aircraft designed by Northrop Grumman for complex intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance missions.
Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk
The Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk is an unarmed, high-altitude surveillance drone that flies ISR missions for the United States Air Force and allied operators.
Northrop Grumman X-47A Pegasus
The Northrop Grumman X-47A Pegasus was a company-funded, tailless experimental unmanned air vehicle that first flew in 2003 at China Lake, California, demonstrating the autonomous carrier-style landings needed for a naval unmanned combat aircraft.
Northrop Grumman X-47B
The Northrop Grumman X-47B is a tailless, stealthy unmanned combat air vehicle demonstrator built for the US Navy, first to land autonomously on an aircraft carrier.
Northrop Grumman YFQ-48 Talon Blue
The Northrop Grumman YFQ-48 Talon Blue is a semi-autonomous uncrewed combat aircraft built by Scaled Composites as a candidate for the Air Force's Collaborative Combat Aircraft program.
Northrop P-61 Black Widow
The Northrop P-61 Black Widow, a twin-boom night fighter built by Northrop, was the first American aircraft designed around an airborne radar, flying in World War II.
Northrop T-38 Talon
The Northrop T-38 Talon is a twin-engine supersonic jet trainer, the world's first supersonic trainer, serving as the United States Air Force's advanced pilot trainer since 1961.
Northrop XP-56 Black Bullet
The Northrop XP-56 Black Bullet was an experimental tailless pusher fighter-interceptor built by Northrop for the United States Army Air Forces, with two prototypes flown in 1943 and 1944.
Northrop YA-9
The Northrop YA-9 was a twin-engine prototype close air support attack aircraft built for the Air Force A-X program, which it lost to the Fairchild Republic YA-10 in 1972.
Northrop YB-35
The Northrop YB-35, also known as the XB-35, was an American four-engine flying-wing heavy bomber whose first aircraft flew in May 1948 before the program was canceled in 1949.
Northrop YB-49
The Northrop YB-49 was an American prototype jet-powered flying wing heavy bomber built by Northrop for the US Air Force, first flown in 1947 and canceled in 1949.
Northrop YF-17
The Northrop YF-17, nicknamed Cobra, was a twin-engine prototype fighter that lost the 1975 Air Force competition to the YF-16 but was developed into the F/A-18 Hornet.
Northrop YF-23
The Northrop YF-23, unofficially Black Widow II, was a twin-engine stealth fighter prototype Northrop built with McDonnell Douglas, losing the Air Force's ATF competition to the YF-22 in 1991.
NorthSea Therapeutics B.V.
NorthSea Therapeutics B.V. is a private Dutch biopharmaceutical company founded in 2017 and based in Amsterdam, developing structurally engineered fatty acids for metabolic and rare liver diseases.
Northside Health Careers High School
Northside Health Careers High School (HCHS), a 1984-founded public magnet high school of Northside ISD in San Antonio, Texas, prepares grades 9-12 students for health careers through pathways, clinical rotations, and dual credit.
Northside Independent School District
Northside Independent School District (NISD) is a public school district in northwest San Antonio, Texas, founded in 1949 and the city's largest, with about 98,000 students.
Northstar engine series
The Northstar engine series, also called the Cadillac Northstar, is a family of all-aluminum 32-valve DOHC V8 engines built by GM for Cadillac from 1993 to 2010.
Northstar gas field
Northstar is an offshore oil and gas field in the Alaskan Beaufort Sea, produced since 2001 from an artificial gravel island near Prudhoe Bay and now operated by Hilcorp Alaska.
Northstar Line
The Northstar Line, also called the Northstar Commuter Line, was Minnesota's first commuter rail service, running 40 miles from Big Lake to Minneapolis from 2009 to 2026.
NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes
NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes, LLC is an American radiopharmaceutical company founded in 2006 in Beloit, Wisconsin, which in 2018 became the first US company in nearly 30 years to produce molybdenum-99 domestically.
Northstar Mezzanine Partners
Northstar Mezzanine Partners is a series of mezzanine private credit funds managed by Northstar Capital, a Minneapolis firm founded in 1993 that lends to lower-middle-market companies.
Northumberland
Northumberland is the northernmost historic county and unitary authority area of England, bordering Scotland, with Hadrian's Wall, Alnwick Castle, and a visitor economy worth £1.582 billion in 2025.
Northumberland Development Project
The Northumberland Development Project is Tottenham Hotspur Football Club's mixed-use redevelopment of North Tottenham, London, which replaced White Hart Lane with a larger stadium opened in 2019.
Northumberland Strait
The Northumberland Strait is an arm of the Gulf of St. Lawrence separating Prince Edward Island from New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, with Canada's warmest ocean waters.
Northumbria
Northumbria (Norþanhymbre) was an Anglo-Saxon kingdom from the Humber to the Forth, formed from Bernicia and Deira, unified under Æthelfrith and Edwin; the name now labels the North East of England.
Northumbria University
Northumbria University, a research-intensive university in Newcastle upon Tyne with a London campus, formed from Rutherford College and Newcastle Polytechnic, gained university status in 1992 and ranks 23rd in UK research power (REF 2021).