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
Building for a Sustainable World Class Aerospace Future… Speakers confirmed for 2013 ANAF The partnership between The Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE), The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), The North West Aerospace Alliance (NWAA) and The Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS) has once again secured an impressive line up of speakers for the 2013 ANAF … Dowiedz się więcej
ATK (NYSE: ATK) provided hardware for both the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) 3 satellite and the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V launch vehicle that launched today from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. The AEHF 3 is the third satellite in a constellation designed to provide highly secure communications for the military and … Dowiedz się więcej
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
Republic Airways Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ/NM: RJET) today announced a two-week extension of exclusivity of the sale process for Frontier Airlines. The new deadline to enter into a definitive agreement will be September 30, 2013. “Sitting here today, we have made substantial progress towards reaching a definitive agreement with the buyer and, while we can make no assurances, we … Dowiedz się więcej
Rockwell Collins has signed a long-term service agreement with AAR for maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) of Rockwell Collins avionics on more than 300 aircraft, including Airbus A319, A320, A330, Boeing 737, 767 and Bombardier CRJ platforms. The 10-year, customized price-per-flight-hour and fixed-price-repair service agreement provides AAR with Rockwell Collins’ world-class, 24-7 repair and consistent, … Dowiedz się więcej