Aerospace

ATK’s CASTOR® 30 Motor Supports Launch of Antares™ COTS Demonstration Mission to International Space Station

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ATK’s (NYSE: ATK) CASTOR® 30 upper stage solid rocket motor supported the successful cargo demonstration launch of Orbital Sciences Corporation’s (NYSE: ORB) Antares™ rocket as it lifted off from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia today at 10:58 a.m. EDT. This demonstration flight to the International Space Station (ISS) is the final milestone in Orbital’s … Dowiedz się więcej

NASA Partner Orbital Sciences Launches Demonstration Mission to Space Station

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NASA commercial space partner Orbital Sciences Corporation of Dulles, Va., successfully launched its Cygnus cargo spacecraft aboard its Antares rocket at 10:58 a.m. EDT Wednesday from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Pad-0A at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. This is the first time a spacecraft launched from Virginia is blazing a trail toward the International … Dowiedz się więcej

Aerojet Rocketdyne’s Interstellar Propulsion System Officially Exits the Heliosphere

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Aerojet Rocketdyne, a GenCorp (NYSE:GY) company, announced today that the hydrazine propulsion system that it originally built in collaboration with Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in the 1970s has entered interstellar space, the space between stars, aboard the Voyager 1 spacecraft. The Voyager 1 spacecraft, originally launched in 1977 aboard the Titan IIIE-Centaur launch vehicle, is … Dowiedz się więcej

Swarm Launch Campaign Started

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The launch campaign for the three Swarm satellites  Eurockot will launch for the European Space Agency started today when the first of the satellites was flown into Pero Airfield at Plesetsk Cosmodrome after customs clearance at ArchangelAirport. The remaining two satellites will follow on September 19 and 21, 2013. The departure point for all three … Dowiedz się więcej

Arianespace and Astrium sign an agreement to begin production of 18 additional Ariane 5 ECA launchers

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Arianespace and Astrium signed an initial agreement on 17 September to begin the production of 18 additional Ariane 5 ECA launchers. As part of this agreement, Arianespace has ordered from Astrium, long-lead items and the start of production activities for the 18 additional launchers. These items and the first production activities are valued at more … Dowiedz się więcej