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Northrop Grumman and Firefly Aerospace have teamed up to build the first-stage Antares rocket upgrade and a medium launch vehicle to support customers in national security, civilian and commercial space launch markets. “Through our collaboration, we will first develop a fully domestic version of our Antares rocket, the Antares 330, for Cygnus space station commercial […] More
A Northrop Grumman cargo resupply spacecraft departed the International Space Station on Tuesday after a four-month stay to deploy five miniature satellites for the vehicle’s secondary mission. The company said Tuesday it expects the NG-15 Cygnus, nicknamed S.S. Katherine Johnson, to perform cubesat deployments while in orbit over a three-day period before the spacecraft returns […] More
Northrop Grumman's Cygnus spacecraft is scheduled to depart the International Space Station and host a two-week demonstration of the SharkSat payload once it leaves the ISS. SharkSat is intended to test and demonstrate multiprocessor systems, digital receivers, integrated circuits and other electronic components to facilitate the development of a Ka-band software defined radio that could have potential applications in 5G, space-to-ground and space-to-space communications.
A Northrop Grumman cargo spacecraft launched Friday evening from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia to bring almost 8K pounds of cargo for a 14th resupply mission to the International Space Station.
A Northrop Grumman spacecraft has reached the International Space Station for its 10th cargo resupply mission with NASA. The company said Monday the Cygnus spacecraft, also called “S.S. John Young,” transported 7.4K pounds of crew supplies and research materials to ISS after it launched Saturday from Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia aboard an Antares rocket. ISS crew used the […] More
Northrop Grumman on Saturday launched the Cygnus cargo spacecraft on a mission to deliver 7,400 pounds of NASA‘s scientific equipment and crew supplies to the International Space Station. The company said Saturday its vehicle, nicknamed S.S. John Young, lifted off at 4:01 a.m. Eastern time from the Wallops Flight Facility’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Pad 0A in Virginia aboard the medium-class Antares rocket. […] More
Northrop Grumman intends to launch on Friday, Nov. 16 its Cygnus spacecraft to deliver approximately 7.4K pounds of scientific equipment and crew supplies to the International Space Station. The scheduled liftoff of Cygnus from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia atop Northrop's Antares rocket will mark the company's 10th cargo resupply mission to ISS, the firm said Wednesday. […] More
Northrop Grumman plans to launch no earlier than Nov. 15 its Cygnus spacecraft to bring scientific experiments, equipment and supplies to the International Space Station. Cygnus will take off aboard Northrop's Antares rocket from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia as part of the company's 10th cargo resupply services mission, the space agency said Thursday. Some of […] More
Northrop Grumman's Cygnus spacecraft re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere on Monday after it brought approximately 7,400 pounds of cargo and supplies to the International Space Station and performed secondary space missions. The re-entry of the space vehicle, dubbed S.S. J.R. Thompson, marked the conclusion of the company's ninth cargo delivery mission to the orbiting laboratory under the Commercial Resupply […] More
Northrop Grumman's Cygnus spacecraft left the International Space Station on Friday to deploy six CubeSats into orbit. The company said Sunday the spacecraft, also known as S.S. J.R. Thompson, will use the NanoRacks deployer to field AeroCube 12A and 12B satellites from Aerospace Corp. and four other CubeSats that will join Spire Global's constellation of weather satellites to […] More
SpaceX completed a static fire test of a previously-flown Falcon 9 rocket booster Saturday at Cape Canaveral in Florida in preparation for the launch on Friday, June 29, of the Dragon spacecraft as part of the company's 15th commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station, Spaceflight Now reported Saturday. The Dragon capsule will take off aboard […] More
Orbital ATK has set May 20 as target date to launch its ninth cargo delivery mission to the International Space Station as part of the company’s Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA. The space agency said Monday Orbital ATK moved Cygnus from a payload processing facility to a spacecraft fueling facility Monday at the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. After […] More
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