Tag: International Space Station
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Orbital ATK’s Antares rocket sends Cygnus cargo ship to space station with a ‘nation’
Orbital ATK’s Antares rocket lifts off from Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. (Orbital ATK Photo / Thom Baur) Orbital ATK’s Antares rocket today sent a Cygnus cargo spacecraft on the first step of its journey to the International Space Station with 7,400 pounds of supplies and experiments, including a nanosatellite that its backers say will…
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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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Startups win another $500,000 from Boeing and CASIS for zero-gravity tech
The International Space Station serves as an orbiting laboratory. (NASA photo) The Boeing Co. and a nonprofit group called the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space, or CASIS, have teamed up for the fourth year in a row to provide financial support for orbital entrepreneurship through the MassChallenge startup accelerator program. This year’s…
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SpaceX to restore damaged Cape Canaveral launch pad to service in December
A view of rocket hardware inside SpaceX’s hangar at 39A as a Falcon 9 rocket (center) rolled out Sunday for launch with the Koreasat 5A satellite. The rocket stages visible here include hardware for the Falcon Heavy demonstration flight. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX is set to resume launches from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral in December…
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Astronauts wrap up spacewalk, accomplishing all primary tasks
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 3 p.m. EDT (1900 GMT) after spacewalk’s conclusion. STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Astronaut Joe Acaba works outside the International Space Station during a spacewalk Friday. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now Staging NASA’s third spacewalk in 15 days, two astronauts floated outside the International Space Station Friday and installed a…
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Progress supply ship completes space station delivery
Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now A Russian Progress resupply freighter docked with the International Space Station on Monday, delivering fuel, food and supplies to the orbiting research lab’s six-person crew. Docking with the space station’s Pirs module occurred at 1104 GMT (7:04 a.m. EDT) with nearly three tons of cargo, completing a two-day pursuit that began…