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Cygnus Raised for Pre-Dawn OA-9 Launch to Space Station Monday from Virginia
UPDATE May 19 @ 10:00am EDT – Story updated with photos of Antares being raised vertical atop the launch pad in preparation for a launch attempt at 4:39 a.m. EDT Monday morning (8:39am UTC). UPDATE May 18 @ 12:30pm EDT – Launch has been delayed to NET Monday, May 21st at 4:39 a.m. EDT, “to support further pre-launch inspections and more […] More
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Rarely Used Heavyweight Atlas V Delivers Military AFSPC-11 Payload to High Orbit
Pummeling the ground with an estimated 2.5 million pounds (1.1 million kg) of thrust, the largest and most powerful member of United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) Atlas V fleet roared aloft earlier tonight (Saturday, 14 April), to deliver a multi-purpose payload into orbit on behalf of the U.S. Air Force Space Command. Liftoff of the Atlas […] More
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in News, NASA, ExoplanetsNASA’s Next Exoplanet-Hunter, TESS, Arrives at Kennedy Space Center Ahead of Launch
NASA is getting closer to taking the next big step in exoplanet-hunting – the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) space telescope has just arrived at Kennedy Space Center in Florida in preparation for launch no earlier than April 16. It was built and tested during 2017 at Orbital ATK in Dulles, Virginia, and now will be […] More
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Orbital ATK Honors Veterans With Rousing Launch of OA-8 Cygnus to Space Station
Fittingly for a veteran rocket and a veteran spacecraft, traveling to visit a group of veteran astronauts and cosmonauts aboard a veteran space station—including the first Marine Corps skipper of the multi-national orbiting outpost—it was hoped that the OA-8 Cygnus cargo mission would coincide with Veterans Day, by launching on Saturday, 11 November. As well as honoring the […] More
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in Space, Antares, Orbital ATKOA-8 Cygnus Mission to Honor Gene Cernan, 45 Years After Last Moonwalks
Only months before its purchase by Northrop Grumman is expected to be finalized, Orbital ATK plans to launch its next Cygnus cargo freighter (OA-8) to the International Space Station (ISS), no sooner than Saturday, 11 November, during a five-minute “window”, which opens at 7:37 a.m. EST. The mission will mark the return of the Dulles, […] More
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Complexity and Challenge: Dawn Project Manager Speaks of Difficult Voyage to Vesta and Ceres
A decade of operations in deep space is no longer a unique understanding, as we have seen in recent weeks, as Cassini ended 13 years of spectacular science at Saturn and the international Dawn mission celebrated ten years exploring the asteroid belt—which lies between Mars and Jupiter—and became the first emissary from Earth to enter […] More
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Northrop Grumman to Acquire Orbital ATK for $9.2 Billion
FALLS CHURCH and DULLES, Va. – Sept. 18, 2017 – Northrop Grumman Corporation and Orbital ATK today announced they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Northrop Grumman will acquire Orbital ATK for approximately $7.8 billion in cash, plus the assumption of $1.4 billion in net debt. Orbital ATK shareholders will receive all-cash consideration […] More
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Service Platforms for Powerful SLS Boosters Arrive at KSC
New service platforms for NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) booster engines arrived recently at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, marking another milestone in the ongoing post-shuttle era transition for the spaceport. The platforms were brought in on two flatbed trucks, then offloaded and stored inside the cavernous Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB), where the SLS and Orion […] More
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in NASA, Commercial, Orion, SLS, EM-1, Orbital ATKWatch Orbital ATK Test Fire NASA’s Orion Launch Abort System
As summer 2017 quickly gets underway, NASA’s Orion program is making steady progress on a series of different testing programs. In the Neutral Buoyancy Lab at Johnson Space Center in Houston, teams are evaluating Orion’s updated airbag splashdown system, while the team developing Orion’s parachute system just conducted another successful drop test of a mock crew capsule over the […] More
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in NASA, Space, Kennedy Space Center, United Launch Alliance, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, International Space Station, Atlas V, USA, ULA, Space Coast, Launch, CYGNUS, Orbital ATK‘Godspeed, John Glenn’: Cygnus Soars Atop Atlas-V on Voyage to Space Station
Despite being the “barebones” member of the fleet, the pencil-like Atlas V 401 today cemented its credentials as the most-flown vehicle in United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) Atlas V inventory. With the spectacular launch of Orbital ATK’s OA-7 Cygnus cargo mission to the International Space Station (ISS), the “401”—so named because it carries a 13-foot-diameter (4-meter) […] More
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John Glenn to Return to Space ‘In Spirit’ on ISS-Bound OA-7 Cygnus Cargo Mission
Denied a second spaceflight by then-President John F. Kennedy, reportedly on account of his value to the nation as America’s first man to orbit the Earth, Astronaut John Glenn will launch on his third mission on Tuesday, 18 April, aboard a modern incarnation of his old Atlas rocket. His space-time tally—which currently consists of a five-hour […] More
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in News, Air Force, United Launch Alliance, Military Space, Delta IV, ULA, Launch, WGS, 45th Space Wing, WGS-9PHOTOS: Delta-IV Launches Multinational WGS-9 Into Twilight Skies
U.S. and allied military broadband satellite communications will be significantly bolstered by the successful launch from Cape Canaveral AFS of the Boeing/U.S. Air Force WGS-9 Wideband Global Satcom on Saturday March 19, by a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Medium+ (5,4) rocket with four solid motors strapped to its sides. The X-band system on all […] More
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