April 2020
Reviving Russia’s space programme
..., Russia’s rocket engines - still the most advanced in the world - were sold to the Americans to power their Antares and Atlas V rockets, the latest batch arriving at the end of 2019. The retirement of the Space Shuttle...
September 2023
The Institute of Biomedical Problems - Sixty years of contributing to the development of space biomedicine
... was held in Yerevan, Armenia, laying the foundation for many years of cooperation on the Cosmonaut, Aragats, Antares, Altair, Cassiopeia, Pegasus, Perseus and other scientific programmes. The Soviet-American joint working group established in ...
September 2024
Space nation issues declaration of independence
... currency (the Solar) and an expanding population. The territory of Asgardia is considered to be a satellite launched on board the Antares launch vehicle from the Wallops Flight Facility, USA, on 12 November 2017 and placed in orbit 7 December 2017...
03 July 2015
Progress departs for ISS as two previous failures have world on edge
... Sunday, and a Russian rocket that took off on April 28 – had failed. This is besides the failure of the Antares rocket in October 2014. Eric Berger, science reporter for the Houston Chronicle, expressed the general ethos...
13 July 2015
ISS Conference: 2024 plans, LEO development & how CASIS manages risk aversion
... at the conference were frank about the bad luck they have encountered since the Orbital ATK Antares explosion last fall. “After Orbital Services exploded last October, and we did the second attempt, it was...
25 February 2016
SpaceX Signs New NASA Contract for Five Additional Cargo-Supply Missions
... to the space station. Orbital’s contract was valued at $1.9 billion and was intended to cover eight launches of Orbital’s Antares rocket, which unlike Falcon 9 had not yet flown when the CRS work was booked. The...
