A new milestone for the future of United Launch Alliance’s rockets was conducted by Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems (NGIS) on Thursday, when the first GEM-63 motor was test-fired for 110 seconds during the QM-1 firing at the NGIS testing facility in Promontory, Utah – sending 373,000 lbs of thrust along with bright fire, loud noise and vibration into the sunny desert sky.
As Orbital ATK’s OA-9E Cygnus mission continues its to-date flawless mission at the ISS, the…
Orbital ATK is preparing for the next phase of development for their Next Generation Launcher…
Last weekend, Stratolaunch Systems performed high-speed taxi tests of the world’s largest aircraft by wingspan.…
With two flights of Cygnus under their belt for Space Station resupply in 2017, Orbital…
Orbital ATK’s Antares rocket has launched a Cygnus spacecraft on Sunday, beginning the company’s CRS-8…
Orbital ATK’s Taurus-XL rocket – now renamed Minotaur-C – returned to flight on Tuesday with…
Orbital ATK’s Minotaur rocket made its first launch from Cape Canaveral Friday, delivering the experimental…
Orbital ATK’s Pegasus rocket finally launched on Thursday, carrying NASA’s CYGNSS environmental research satellite constellation…
The role of the Cygnus spacecraft in resupply missions to the International Space Station (ISS)…
Orbital ATK and NASA have entered into an agreement to begin negotiations over the potential…