NASA Suspends Payments on Launch Contract with Orbital, Space News “Dulles, Va.-based Orbital remains under contract to build OCO-2, a duplicate of the $200 million carbon-mapping satellite destroyed in a […]
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Setback for Taurus II
Taurus II Engine Sustained Damage In Fire, Aviation Week “An Aerojet AJ26 engine destined to power the Orbital Sciences Corp. Taurus II launch vehicle in the run-up to commercial resupply […]
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X-34 To Fly? (Update)
Grounded NASA Space Plane Poised for Comeback?, Wired “Last week, NASA contractors moved the two, 59-foot-long X-34s from open storage to a test pilot school in California’s Mojave Desert. There, […]