Tag: Orbital ATK

  • Cargo manifest for the OA-5 station resupply mission

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    A view inside the pressurized cargo module of Orbital ATK’s Cygnus spacecraft after technicians loaded the final supplies heading for the International Space Station. Credit: Orbital ATK The sixth commercial cargo delivery by Orbital ATK’s Cygnus spacecraft, and the first using an Antares rocket since a launch failure in 2014, will carry more than 5,000…

  • Faulty cable delays Antares launch 24 hours

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    The Antares rocket sits on launch pad 0A at Wallops Island, Virginia. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls Orbital ATK launch managers have pushed back liftoff of an Antares rocket until Monday to replace a faulty cable on the booster’s launch pad in Virginia. The delay means the International Space Station crew will not receive the Cygnus supply…

  • Video: Antares/Cygnus pre-launch news conference

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    Officials from NASA, Orbital ATK, Wallops Flight Facility and the Commonwealth of Virginia preview Sunday night’s flight of the Antares rocket during the pre-launch news conference held on the eve of liftoff. The launch is planned for Sunday evening at 8:03 p.m. EDT (0003 GMT) to send the cargo-laden Cygnus freighter to the International Space…

  • Stratolaunch announces plan to fly with Pegasus rockets

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    An artist’s concept of Stratolaunch’s carrier aircraft with three Pegasus rockets. Credit: Stratolaunch Systems Stratolaunch Systems, a company backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, will launch Pegasus XL rockets produced by Orbital ATK from the world’s largest airplane as officials shift focus toward deploying lighter satellites into orbit. Stratolaunch and Orbital ATK announced the “production-based”…

  • Officials target mid-October for first launch of upgraded Antares cargo rocket

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    The Italian-built pressurized cargo module and U.S.-built service module of the next Cygnus spacecraft were mated earlier this year at Wallops. Credit: NASA/Patrick Black Orbital ATK ground crews in Virginia are fueling the next Cygnus cargo freighter this week for launch toward the International Space Station in mid-October on the first flight of the company’s…

  • Officials target mid-October for first launch of upgraded Antares cargo rocket

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    The Italian-built pressurized cargo module and U.S.-built service module of the next Cygnus spacecraft were mated earlier this year at Wallops. Credit: NASA/Patrick Black Orbital ATK ground crews in Virginia are fueling the next Cygnus cargo freighter this week for launch toward the International Space Station in mid-October on the first flight of the company’s…

  • NASA picks 6 companies to develop prototype space habitats

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Artist’s concept of a Lockheed Martin-built habitation system with the Orion capsule. Credit: Lockheed Martin NASA has selected six companies to work on designs for deep space habitat modules that could be used by astronauts living and working near the moon as technology is developed for eventual flights…

  • High-tech camera records rocket test in never-before-seen detail

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    A major booster test for NASA’s Space Launch System in June doubled as a demonstration of a new high dynamic range video recorder that captured unprecedented imagery of the rocket firing, revealing hidden details normally masked by the motor’s bright-hot exhaust. Developed by engineers at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, the high-tech camera is…

  • First two Iridium Next satellites shipped to Vandenberg

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    Technicians load the first two Iridium Next satellites into their shipping containers at Orbital ATK’s manufacturing facility in Gilbert, Arizona. Credit: Iridium The first two next-generation Iridium satellites, designed to connect global subscribers with data and voice traffic, arrived at Vandenberg Air Force Base on Tuesday, where they will join eight more message relay craft…

  • Iridium satellites rolling off assembly line in Arizona

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    The first two fully-complete Iridium Next satellites. Credit: Stephen Clark/Spaceflight Now Construction is complete on the first batch of 81 new satellites to overhaul Iridium’s mobile communications network, and the data relay stations will soon head from their factory near Phoenix to California’s hilly Central Coast for launch in September on a SpaceX Falcon 9…