11 June 2018
Aerospace company Orbital ATK bought by Northrop Grumman
...,” a statement by the FTC said. One such condition enforced by the FTC is that Northrop Grumman must make Orbital ATK-developed solid rocket motors available to other defence and aerospace contractors "on a non-discriminatory basis under specified...
30 June 2016
Orbital ATK and NASA Successfully Complete Second Qualification Test
... from a data link software issue on the hard drive. The affected part had to be replaced prior to testing. Orbital ATK's vice president and general manager of propulsion systems Charlie Precourt said that the sequencer, ”responsible for...
September 2017
Space nation set to mark its presence in orbit
... first one and a half million people who adopt the Constitution of Asgardia. Asgardia-1 will be deployed from Orbital ATK’s Cygnus OA-8 resupply spacecraft due to launch this autumn to the International Space Station (ISS). The nano satellite...
24 March 2016
Cygnus Cargo Spacecraft Successfully Launched
...said Frank DeMauro, vice president of human space systems at Orbital ATK, “We’re using Cygnus now not only as a logistics ...really as a testbed for NASA research.” By June, Orbital ATK hopes to resume Cygnus launches on its Antares vehicle, which...
15 April 2018
TESS, NASA's planet-finding mission launches today!
... to look at their masses, sizes, densities, and atmospheric properties. TESS’s design is based on Orbital ATK's LEOStar-2 platform - the 31st of its type that Orbital has delivered to NASA for their science missions. As TESS’s job is to look but not...
05 June 2017
The world's largest airplane gets its debut
...payloads up to approximately 550,000 lbs.,” said Ford. “As we announced last fall, we will initially launch a single Orbital ATK Pegasus XL vehicle with the capability to launch up to three Pegasus vehicles in a single sortie mission. We have already...
