Making its first flight in over a year, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ H-IIA rocket lifted off from the Tanegashima Space Centre on Sunday with a reconnaissance satellite for the Japanese government. Liftoff occurred at10:34 local time 01:34 UTC, during a five-minute launch window.
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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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Commercial
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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CommercialUncrewed
NGIS OmegA fires for two minutes in first static test – nozzle incident under review
The Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems (formerly Orbital ATK) OmegA rocket conducted a key test today…
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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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CommercialISS
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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Japan launched a satellite to monitor greenhouse gases in the Earth’s atmosphere on Monday. The…
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A new milestone for the future of United Launch Alliance’s rockets was conducted by Northrop…
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When United Launch Alliance’s final Delta II rocket deploys NASA’s ICESat-II satellite on Saturday, the…
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The P120C rocket motor that will be involved with both the Ariane 6 and Vega-C…
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Japan made another addition to its constellation of reconnaissance satellites with the launch of the…
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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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A Japanese reconnaissance satellite rode to orbit Tuesday aboard the country’s H-IIA carrier rocket. Liftoff,…
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Japan launched the second satellite of its Global Change Observation Mission Saturday. The GCOM-C satellite…
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United Launch Alliance (ULA) launched – at the third attempt – the penultimate Delta II…
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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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Orbital ATK’s Taurus-XL rocket – now renamed Minotaur-C – returned to flight on Tuesday with…