Northrop Grumman Expands Houston Operations, Looks to Local Businesses to Join Space Exploration Team “Northrop Grumman Corporation announced today that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has cleared Northrop Grumman’s […]
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NASA Starts The Week With A Commercial Launch From Virginia
NASA Sends New Research on Orbital ATK Mission to Space Station “Astronauts soon will have new experiments to conduct related to emergency navigation, DNA sequencing and ultra-cold atom research when […]
Posted inCommercialization
Renaming A Rocket To Get A 100% Success Rate
Just today I learned Minotaur-C is the same as Taurus, which makes this tweet quite the lie! ? But congrats on today's success, @OrbitalATK! https://t.co/LlOaCpppl4 — Laura Seward Forczyk (@LauraForczyk) […]
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Dazed and Confused at NASA Wallops
Keith’s note: A few moments ago NASA Wallops completed a webcast. The audio and video were not in synch, video was jittery, and they had bad microphone issues. One might […]
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SSL Sues Orbital ATK Over Unauthorized Access of Data on NASA Server
SSL sues rival Orbital ATK over theft of trade secrets: lawsuit Reuters “At least four confidential SSL documents were viewed and distributed by an Orbital ATK employee working at NASA’s […]
Posted inProcurement
Satellite Servicing Heats up with Orbital ATK Suing DARPA
Orbital ATK Sues DARPA Over MDA’s SSL GEO Satellite Servicing Contract, SpaceQ “The days of on-orbit servicing, or satellite servicing, living in obscurity are over. On February 7, Orbital ATK, […]
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Successful Launch for Antares
Orbital ATK Successfully Launches the Antares Rocket on its Return to Flight (with video), SpaceRef “In a successful return to flight, Orbital ATK launched the upgraded Antares rocket with the […]
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Orbital ATK Startles Beach Goers With Loud Rocket Noises
Orbital ATK Conducts Test of Antares First Stage (with video) “Orbital ATK today announced it conducted a full-power “hot fire” test of the upgraded first stage propulsion system of its […]
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More Solid Rocket Food Fights
Industry Jockeys Over ICBM Motors For Commercial Space Launch, Defense News “Newer companies generally use liquid-fuel rocket technology, considered more cost-effective for certain missions. It only makes financial sense to […]
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S.S. Rick Husband Leaves Earth for the Space Station
Orbital ATK’s Cygnus Spacecraft Successfully Launched to ISS “The launch marks the beginning of the company’s fifth operational cargo resupply mission (OA-6) for NASA, and the first Cygnus to conduct […]