Tag: ISPCS 2015

  • Virgin Galactic in transition one year after fatal accident

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    Virgin Galactic’s second SpaceShipTwo vehicle goes “weight on wheels” in Mojave in May. Credit: Virgin Galactic Last year’s fatal crash of Virgin Galactic’s suborbital rocket plane has delayed the start of the company’s commercial operations at least a year, prompting a change in mindset from a “period of euphoria to a period of real, measurable,…

  • ULA selects launch pads for new Vulcan rocket

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    ULA chief executive Tory Bruno tweeted this image illustrating the Vulcan rocket’s evolution from the Atlas rocket family. The Vulcan will use the Atlas 5’s current launch pads in Florida and California, according to a senior ULA official. Credit: ULA United Launch Alliance’s next-generation Vulcan rocket will lift off from the company’s existing Atlas 5…

  • Sierra Nevada on watch for critical cargo award

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    Sierra Nevada Corp. technicians prepare the Dream Chaser engineering test article for another round of atmospheric flight tests. Credit: Sierra Nevada A prototype of Sierra Nevada’s Dream Chaser space plane is nearing shipment to California’s Mojave Desert to resume runway landing tests as officials wait for word from NASA whether the company will win a…

  • Cygnus supply ship takes weather satellite’s slot in Atlas manifest

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    Updating Cygnus processing location. The service module for Orbital ATK’s next Cygnus cargo craft will be shipped to the launch site at Cape Canaveral from Virginia later this month. It features upgrades such as fan-shaped solar arrays and a lengthened cargo module. Credit: Orbital ATK. Orbital ATK plans to launch its next two commercial resupply…