25 August 2017
Most detailed image ever of a star other than our Sun
... Telescope Interferometer (VLTI). The star is the red supergiant Antares – the brightest star in the heart of the constellation... measure the gas motions in the extended atmosphere of Antares — a crucial step towards clarifying this problem. The...
24 March 2016
Cygnus Cargo Spacecraft Successfully Launched
...June, Orbital ATK hopes to resume Cygnus launches on its Antares vehicle, which has been grounded since October 2014, when... ATK plans to carry out a static fire test of another Antares first stage on the pad at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport ...
March 2015
Congested, contested, and invested: of space debris, risky launches and private initiative
...orbits to sustain current operations and to support innovative and profitable development. Risky launches On October 28, 2014, Orbital’s Antares rocket exploded just 15 seconds after ignition on what would have been the third mission to deliver cargo...
13 June 2017
Asgardia nation to launch inaugural satellite
... solar arrays, will primarily be a data storage satellite. It is scheduled for launch into orbit on 12 September by an Orbital ATK Antares rocket carrying the ninth Cygnus cargo freighter, which will be on its eighth operational cargo delivery flight...
January 2018
Space nation's first orbiting satellite
Asgardia-1 was launched on 12 November 2017 from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia as a part of the OA-8 Antares-Cygnus mission to the International Space Station (ISS) and deployed after Cygnus completed its mission at the ...
August 2016
Smallsat launch strategy
... 1 was launching on the maiden flight of the Antares, and the maiden flight of any rocket is usually considered high risk...that are oversized for their needs, such as the Falcon 9, Antares, Atlas V and Soyuz. Despite the wide range of launch opportunities...
