29 June 2015
SpaceX Falcon 9 failure: will launch markets and manned spaceflight be affected?
...failed to make it to orbit. And in October 2014, an Antares rocket also bound for the ISS exploded soon after lift-off. Thankfully...failure – their previous disappointment had come when the Antares rocket exploded last year. The science community was ...
14 November 2017
Space nation launches first satellite into orbit
... citizens. It was launched as a part of the OA-8 Antares-Cygnus mission to the International Space Station (ISS) and will...docked with the ISS today (14 November). Its launch by an Antares rocket was delayed by a day after a light aircraft strayed ...
June 2015
Great expectations: launch markets, SpaceX, China, and other new players
... to transform the commercial launch market. Orbital – a competitor and a co-participator in COTS – is offering its medium-sized Antares launch vehicle as a comparatively low-cost alternative to NASA’s old “work horse,” the Delta II rocket. Yet the...
February 2017
Global robotic network for monitoring near-Earth and outer space
... telescopes in the world’s space observatories. The fact that the world’s largest physical experiments on neutrino registration (ANTARES, IceCube) and gravitational waves (LIGO/VIRGO) work with MASTER speaks of its quality. MASTER II’s decade-long...
September 2017
Space nation set to mark its presence in orbit
.... Asgardia-1 will primarily be a data storage satellite. It is scheduled for launch into orbit this autumn by an Orbital ATK Antares rocket carrying the ninth Cygnus cargo freighter, which will be on its eighth operational cargo delivery flight...
December 2018
Prosperity in the stars
.... A year later, in November 2017, a CubeSat called Asgardia-1 was launched into a 400 km orbit via an Orbital ATK Antares rocket. The satellite is the first representation of Asgardia’s territory, and Asgardian citizens - of which there are now...
