ATK’s CASTOR 30XL Upper Stage motor is deep into preparations for a static fire test, set to take place this spring at the Arnold Engineering Development Center in Tennessee. The large Upper Stage was designed and built by ATK within a two year period, with six production units on order to boost the power of Orbital’s Antares launch vehicle.
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As the Cygnus S.S. Laurel Clark spends its first days berthed to the ISS, the…
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The final flight of the Antares 230+ launch vehicle, marking the end of the career…
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Launch Roundup: SpaceX launches Galaxy 37; will launch Starlink Group 6-8
Breaking into the 31st week of 2023, from July 31 to Aug. 6, not much…
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Northrop Grumman launched the second to last Antares 230+ rocket from Wallops Island, Virginia for…
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Northrop Grumman kicked off their 2021 launch manifest with the flight of an Antares rocket…
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Solid rocket stages and how they perform mission-precise orbit insertions
Most rocket launches culminate with liquid-fueled upper stage engines turning off at exactly the precise…
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A Northrop Grumman Antares 230+ lifted off from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) on Wallops…
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Following NASA’s Johnson Space Center’s requested, and the Federal Communications Commission approved, post-Station mission extension,…
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NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility Gears Up for a Busy and Historic Early 2020
by Joseph NavinFor the first half of 2020, Antares will launch the Cygnus NG-13 mission to the…
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Roughly 37 hours after launching from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) in Virginia, Northrop Grumman’s…
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Antares, Cygnus launch on final CRS1 contract flight; debuting critical new capabilities
It might be the final CRS1 (Commercial Resupply Services 1) contract flight for both the…
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Following Saturday’s Northrop Grumman Innovation System’s (NGIS’s) Antares rocket launch with the NG-10 Cygnus, named…
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As Orbital ATK’s OA-9E Cygnus mission continues its to-date flawless mission at the ISS, the…
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Orbital ATK’s Cygnus spacecraft began its next supply run to the International Space Station Monday,…
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Orbital ATK has completed rollout of its Antares rocket tasked with launching the Cygnus OA-9E…
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Orbital ATK’s Antares rocket has launched a Cygnus spacecraft on Sunday, beginning the company’s CRS-8…
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After a mission lasting under two months, Orbital ATK’s OA-7 Cygnus spacecraft has conducted its…
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Following a highly successful Return To Flight of their newly upgraded Antares 230 series rocket…
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After nearly one month at the International Space Station, Orbital ATK’s Cygnus OA-5 spacecraft marked the…