WASHINGTON — A May 31 static fire test of the new first stage of Orbital ATK's Antares launch vehicle should clear the way for that rocket to return to flight in early July. An Antares first ...

This new Antares 330 rocket will use seven Miranda engines and significantly increase the payload capacity of the existing Antares launch vehicle, which can lift about 8 metric tons to low Earth ...

Orbital Sciences Corp. postponed the maiden launch of its Antares rocket on Wednesday when an umbilical data cable was disconnected prematurely from the launch vehicle's second stage. The launch ...

The vehicle is back with new engines. The vehicle is back with new engines. Skip to main content. ... Orbital ATK to launch Antares rocket this weekend — two years after 2014 explosion.

In the meantime, Orbital purchased two Atlas 5 rockets from United Launch Alliance to help make up for the Antares failure and fulfill the company’s $1.9 billion contract with NASA to deliver ...

He expected the next Antares launch, previously scheduled for April 2015, would likely be delayed at least three months. “It certainly could be considerably longer than that, depending on what ...

The launch vehicle blasted off at 8:31 p.m. ET, sending the Cygnus cargo spacecraft, named S.S. Laurel Clark, on a journey to the orbital lab. Original article follows.

Turns out, the Antares launch vehicle that exploded during lift-off last week was riding on refurbished disco-era rockets that not even the vaunted Soviet. Skip to content Gizmodo. Search .

Unmanned rocket exploded seconds after launch. This Oct 28, 2014 photo provided by NASA shows the Orbital Antares rocket, after it suffered a catastrophic anomaly moments after launch at NASA's ...

In addition, the company will launch eight operational cargo resupply missions to the International Space Station (ISS) using Antares vehicles from late 2013 through 2016 under the Commercial ...

The Northrop Grumman Antares rocket, seen here Nov. 12, 2018, is moved from the HIF to the launch pad to carry around 7,500 pounds of science and research, crew supplies and vehicle hardware to ...

It's almost show time for a new private rocket on Virginia's Eastern Shore. A commercially built rocket designed to launch unmanned cargo ships to the International Space Station is counting down ...