PARIS — Alliant Techsystems (ATK) Chief Executive Mark W. DeYoung on Nov. 19 said there are no near-term liquid-propulsion alternatives to Russian engines for U.S. rockets. In a conference call with ...
Last night, an Antares rocket -- CRS Orb-3 -- exploded 14 seconds after launch. The Antares, developed by US company Orbital Sciences, was meant to carry around 5,000 pounds (2,200 kilos) of supplies ...
NASA wants the Accident Investigation Board (AIB) set up by Orbital Sciences Corp. to be thorough and methodical in finding and fixing the root cause of the Antares launch failure that claimed a load ...
NK-33 engines, originally destined for a Soviet-era moon shot that never got off the ground and later used in the Antares, are suspect, some... NPR's Geoff Brumfiel reports that as investigators ...
Eight days after the explosion of one of its Antares rockets, Orbital Sciences Corp. announced plans to fulfill its contract commitments under NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) program as well ...
NPR's Geoff Brumfiel reports that as investigators examine what went wrong with the launch of an unmanned Antares rocket on Tuesday, they'll likely take a hard look at powerful engines originally ...
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