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The Orbital Sciences Corporation Antares rocket, with the Cygnus spacecraft onboard suffers a catastrophic anomaly moments after launch from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Pad 0A, Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014, at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky. The following statement is from William Gerstenmaier ...
Cygnus is an expendable American cargo spacecraft used for International Space Station (ISS) logistics missions. Cygnus was developed by Orbital Sciences Corporation, partially funded by NASA under the agency's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program. To create Cygnus, Orbital paired the Multi-Purpose Logistics Module, built ...
Developer of aerospace and defense products. The company specializing in the design, manufacture and launch of small- and medium-class space and rocket systems for commercial, military and other government customers. Its primary products were satellites and launch vehicles, including low-Earth orbit, geosynchronous-Earth orbit and planetary ...
Jan 9, 2014 · Orbital Sciences Corporation Antares 120. Antares known during early development as Taurus II, is an expendable launch system developed by Orbital Sciences Corporation (now part of Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems after Northrop Grumman acquired Orbital ATK) and the Yuzhnoye Design Bureau to launch the Cygnus spacecraft to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s COTS and CRS ...
Apr 2, 2010 · Orbital Sciences Corp. completed its $55 million acquisition of General Dynamics Corp.’s satellite manufacturing division under a deal announced in March, the company said April 2. With the ...
Jul 14, 2014 · The Orbital Sciences Antares rocket carrying a Cygnus cargo capsule thundered away from the Virginia coast Sunday and streaked into orbit, kicking off a three-day flight to deliver more than 1.5 ...
Jan 8, 2014 · Orbital Sciences has confirmed it will proceed with a launch attempt from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Va. at 1:07 p.m. EST Thursday, Jan. 9 of its cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station, pending closeout of all remaining prelaunch reviews and tests.
