United Launch Alliance’s Delta II rocket made its final launch Saturday after it took off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California with a Northrop Grumman-built spacecraft designed to co... Read more
United Launch Alliance has started preparing for the Sept. 15 launch of a Northrop Grumman-built spacecraft via the Delta II 7420-10, marking the rocket’s last launch into space. ULA s... Read more
NASA has installed atop United Launch Alliance’s Delta 2 rocket a Northrop Grumman-built spacecraft designed to track changes in the Earth’s ground and sea ice, Spaceflight Now reported Tues... Read more
A Lockheed Martin-made spacecraft designed to study Mars’ deep interior has traveled halfway towards the red planet. NASA said Tuesday the Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations,... Read more
NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center has partnered with United Launch Alliance to develop systems to manage cryogenic liquid and retrieve space vehicles in midair. The Lockheed Mart... Read more
Some defense companies have expressed optimism on the Trump administration’s plan to establish a new “space force” as they expect the proposed service branch to boost defense spending on spa... Read more
Engility completed independent verification and validation support work for a NASA spacecraft that launched on Sunday to study the sun’s unexplored portions. The company said Monday it... Read more
A solar probe that Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory designed and produced for NASA took off Sunday aboard United Launch Alliance’s Delta IV Heavy rocket from Cape Canavera... Read more
Northrop Grumman provided a propulsion system component that helped United Launch Alliance’s Delta IV Heavy rocket lift a new NASA spacecraft Sunday from Cape Canaveral in Florida into space... Read more
NASA and United Launch Alliance are preparing to launch a Northrop Grumman-built spacecraft in mid-September on a mission to record the changing measurements of Earth’s glaciers, ice sheets... Read more
A state agency has proposed to establish a new launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to support the launch of Boeing’s Phantom Express unmanned vehicle, Florida Today reported... Read more
NASA has named nine U.S. astronauts who will fly aboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon and Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner space taxis as part of the first crewed flight test and mission to the Internation... Read more
The U.S. Air Force could award a new set of Launch Service Agreements sometime during August, one month later than scheduled, SpaceNews reported Wednesday. The military service aims to selec... Read more
Tory Bruno, president and CEO of United Launch Alliance, has told a Senate subcommittee that planned exploration missions to Mars demand a “space industrial base of enormous breadth and dept... Read more
Northrop Tests GEM 63 Motor for ULA’s Atlas V Rocket
Northrop Grumman has completed the initial ground test of a new motor that would power United Launch Alliance‘s Atlas V launch rocket. Tested in Promontory, Utah, the 63-inch diameter... Read more