Orbital ATK managers have finalized their procedures related to the newly upgraded Antares launch vehicle in readiness for upcoming missions to help deliver their Cygnus spacecraft on resupply runs to the International Space Station (ISS). The new Antares required a reworking of how to prepare the rocket for launch, such as moving away from sub-cooled liquid oxygen through to changes to the vehicle avionics and software.
Orbital Sciences Corporation – with their new version of their Antares rocket – will make…
Orbital’s Antares rocket has launched its first Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) mission, lofting the Cygnus…
Orbital Sciences Corporation have – at the third launch attempt – launched their new Antares…
SpaceX will for the first time launch a Falcon 9 booster on its third flight…
The 100th orbital launch of 2018, Roscosmos’ Soyuz MS-11 lofted three international crewmembers from the…
With over 200 Earth observation satellites, Planet Labs now operates the largest satellite constellation in…
India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle returned to flight Friday, four months after the rocket suffered…
Orbital ATK’s Taurus-XL rocket – now renamed Minotaur-C – returned to flight on Tuesday with…
Russia conducted a complex mission Friday to deploy seventy-three satellites via a Soyuz-2-1a rocket with…
SpaceX has launched its Falcon 9 rocket early on Monday, carrying the CRS-9 Dragon spacecraft…
SpaceX successfully launched its seventh Dragon resupply mission en route to the International Space Station…
A Russian Dnepr rocket launched a record-breaking thirty-seven satellites on Friday morning local time, deploying…
Kosmotras launched a Dnepr rocket from Dombarovsky on Thursday, carrying the United Arab Emirates’ DubaiSat-2,…
With all three Space Shuttle orbiters now tucked away inside their respective museums, the International…
