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Space station cargo shipment blasts off aboard Antares rocket
Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls An Orbital ATK Cygnus supply ship packed with 3.7 tons of cargo, supplies and experiments rode an Antares rocket into orbit from Virginia’s Eastern Shore on Sunday, setting course on a two-day pursuit of the International Space Station. Running a day late after an airplane strayed into restricted airspace, scrubbing a launch…
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Photos: Antares rocket stands atop Virginia launch pad
Orbital ATK’s seventh Antares rocket stands ready for launch with a Cygnus supply ship Saturday on a two-day flight to the International Space Station. The two-stage Antares rocket, standing 139 feet (42.5 meters) tall, is set for liftoff at 7:37 a.m. EST (1237 GMT) Saturday from pad 0A at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops…
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Antares launch to resupply space station halted by wayward airplane
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 4 p.m. EST (2100 GMT) with details on the aircraft. Launch was aborted for 7:37am ET today due to an aircraft in the launch zone. Watch: https://t.co/mzKW5uDsTi pic.twitter.com/ltpdPInYtL — NASA (@NASA) November 11, 2017 Managers aborted liftoff of a commercial Antares cargo launcher Saturday when an aircraft strayed into restricted airspace…
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Antares rocket’s launch timeline on the OA-8 cargo mission
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 8:30 a.m. EST (1330 GMT) Nov. 11 after scrubbed launch attempt. Credit: Orbital ATK Orbital ATK’s Antares rocket will deliver the commercial Cygnus supply ship to an orbit with an altitude between 117 miles (189 kilometers) and 184 miles (296 kilometers) within about nine minutes of liftoff Saturday from Virginia’s Eastern…
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Antares rocket rolled to Virginia launch pad for station cargo run
An Antares rocket rolls out to pad 0A at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on Thursday morning. Credit: Orbital ATK A commercial Antares rocket rolled out of a hangar on a one-mile trip to its launch pad on Virginia’s Eastern Shore on Thursday, ready for final countdown preparations ahead of liftoff Saturday morning on…
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Photos: Rollout of Orbital ATK’s Antares rocket
Riding a self-propelled transporter, an Orbital ATK Antares rocket rolled out to it launch pad Thursday on Virginia’s Eastern Shore for final preparations to send a Cygnus supply ship to the International Space Station. The two-stage rocket was stood up at pad 0A at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility after a predawn rollout from Orbital ATK’s…
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Wallops launch base receives final hardware delivery for next Cygnus mission
The Cygnus spacecraft’s service module was packed up at Orbital ATK’s facility in Dulles, Virginia, before shipment to its launch base on Virginia’s Eastern Shore last week. Credit: Orbital ATK Orbital ATK shipped the final major piece of hardware for the next Cygnus space station resupply mission to a launch base on Virginia’s Eastern Shore…
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Antares rocket back in action with successful launch of upgraded booster
The Antares rocket lifted off from Virginia’s Eastern Shore at 7:45 p.m. EDT (2345 GMT) Monday. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls A commercial Antares cargo booster powered by new kerosene-fueled rocket engines streaked into orbit from a launch pad on the Virginia coastline Monday, returning to service to resupply the International Space Station after a two-year grounding…
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Live coverage: Cygnus supply ship captured by space station robot arm
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of an Antares rocket from Virginia with Orbital ATK’s sixth operational Cygnus resupply flight to the International Space Station. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.
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Photos: Antares rolls out for first time since 2014
An Antares rocket is being prepared for launch for the first time in two years after emerging from the Horizontal Integration Facility at Wallops Island, Virginia, on Thursday evening for a one-mile trip to the launch pad. The rocket started its journey on a self-propelled transporter around 5:12 p.m. EDT (2112 GMT) Thursday and rolled…