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Antares Ready for Saturday Launch from Virginia to Resupply ISS (NG-12)
By Ben Evans, on October 31st, 2019
The Northrop Grumman Antares rocket is seen in the early morning on launch Pad-0A, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019, at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Northrop Grumman's 12th contracted cargo resupply mission with NASA to the International Space Station will deliver about 8,200 pounds of science and research, crew supplies and vehicle hardware to […]
Artemis Updates
By Jim Hillhouse, on August 9th, 2019
Orion in lunar orbit. Image: Lockheed Martin
This is the first of what AmericaSpace.com hopes are many updates of the Artemis system on a regular basis to bring you, our readers, up to speed on progress of the primary components of the Artemis system, the Orion spacecraft and SLS launcher.
This […]
ULA Primed for 80th Atlas V Launch with USAF 'AEHF-5' Satellite Thursday Morning
By Ben Evans, on August 7th, 2019
ULA's workhorse Atlas V rocket stands poised for launch atop pad 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida to deliver AEHF-5 into a customized geosynchronous transfer orbit for the U.S. Air Force at 5:44am EDT on 8 Thursday 2019. This satellite is a part of a network supporting protected communications to high-priority […]
NASA Launches Orion Crew Capsule on Milestone In-Flight Abort Test
By Mike Killian, on July 2nd, 2019
An Orion test article launching atop a refurbished Peacekeeper intercontinental ballistic missile solid rocket motor on the Ascent Abort-2 flight test, 2 July 2019 from Space Launch Complex 46 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Photo: Alan Walters / AmericaSpace.com
The sun wasn't the only spectacular sight seen rising over Florida's 'Space […]
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Tenth Antares Booster Ferries NG-11 Cygnus on Late-Afternoon Flight to Space Station
By Ben Evans, on April 17th, 2019
Six years to the week since its inaugural launch, the liquid-fueled Antares rocket roared aloft from Pad 0A at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) on Wallops Island, Va., on Wednesday, 17 April to deliver the next Cygnus cargo ship to the International Space Station (ISS). Photo: Cole Ippoliti / AmericaSpace.com
Six years to the […]
Antares to Launch NG-11 Cygnus from VA April 17, Honors Apollo 1 Hero Roger Chaffee
Antares raising vertical for launch. Photo: NASA / Bill Ingalls
Roger Chaffee never got to fly in space. Selected by NASA as a member of the space agency's third group of astronauts—alongside future Moonwalkers Al Bean, Buzz Aldrin, Dave Scott and Gene Cernan—he was the youngest of his class and in March 1966 drew […]
ZUMA Presumed a 'Total Loss' After Falling Into Ocean, Say Officials
By Mike Killian, on January 9th, 2018
ZUMA launching atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, FL Jan 7, 2018. The secretive government payload reportedly failed to reach orbit and fell into the ocean, say officials familiar with the mission in comments to the Wall Street Journal. Photo: Jeff Seibert / AmericaSpace
The Wall Street Journal is reporting […]
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Webb Launch Slips to 2019 for Integration and Testing Delays at Northrop Grumman
By Mike Killian, on October 1st, 2017
Engineers conducting a white light inspection of the James Webb Space Telescope. Photo NASA/Chris Gunn
The launch of NASA's multi-billion dollar James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has slipped from October 2018 to sometime between March and June 2019, following a recently conducted schedule assessment by NASA which determined integration and testing of the […]
Northrop Grumman to Acquire Orbital ATK for $9.2 Billion
By News Release, on September 18th, 2017
Orbital ATK Antares rocket with Cygnus, bound for the International Space Station. The company has been sold to Northrop Grumman for over $9 billion. Photo Credit: John Studwell/AmericaSpace
FALLS CHURCH and DULLES, Va. – Sept. 18, 2017 – Northrop Grumman Corporation and Orbital ATK today announced they have entered into a definitive agreement […]
Webb Telescope's Critical Protective Sunshield Now Fully Installed
By Mike Killian, on August 11th, 2017
"Imagine you are the telescope", note the engineers standing where the telescope will within its protective 5-layer sunshield. Photo Credit: Northrop Grumman
A piece of hardware critical to the success of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) by preventing background heat from the Sun, Earth and Moon from interfering with the telescope's sensitive […]
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