19 February 2018
TESS arrives in Florida ahead of its April launch
... SpaceX additional time to prepare the rocket for the mission. Yesterday, following its 17 hour ride from Orbital ATK in Dulles, Virginia, where it has spent the last year being assembled and tested, the shipping container...
April 2018
Transforming the launch market for small spacecraft
... individual or small batches of small spacecraft. The Orbital ATK Pegasus XL rocket carrying NASA’s Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite...is the Pegasus air-launch system, developed by Orbital ATK. Since this launcher’s price remains unaffordable for...
10 July 2015
ISS conference: Elon Musk, space station retirement plans, and uncertainty after 2024
...for the Advancement of Science in Space. “There’s confidence in these organizations and these companies — in NASA in general, in SpaceX, in Orbital ATK — that they’ll go and learn what happened. And from that, they’ll make a better rocket.” The chief...
21 October 2016
Soyuz MS-02/48S successfully docks with the ISS
... next few days will be busy for the new ISS crew members as they await the arrival of an Orbital ATK Cygnus cargo spacecraft that will bring equipment and supplies to the station. Then, on October 29 th, members of Expedition...
09 October 2018
Countdown to London’s Global MilSatCom conference
... Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency), New Zealand Defence Force, Newtec, Northern Sky Research (NSR), Orbital ATK, Raytheon, SES Networks, Spanish MoD, Thales US, Thales Defense & Security, UK MoD, UK Royal Air Force, UK Space Agency...
July 2018
Using algae to support astronauts on deep space missions
...isolation of microgravity as the independent variable was lost, results from those experiments were also rendered unreliable. Orbital ATK’s Cygnus cargo spacecraft, packed with more than 5,100 pounds of cargo and research equipment, is captured using...
