![Orbital ATK Org Charts Detail the Newly Merged Company]()
Orbital Sciences Corp. and ATK completed their merger Feb. 9, forming a $4.5 billion aerospace and defense company employing 12,500 people across 17 states.
![ATK and Orbital Shareholders Approve Merger]()
Shareholders of ATK and Orbital Sciences Corp. approved the merger of the two companies in separate votes Jan. 27, clearing the way for the merger to close in early February.
![New NASA Pacts Look To Rush Commercial Space Tech to Shelves]()
Looking to rush new space technologies to the shelves in five years or fewer, NASA on Dec. 23 announced it awarded unfunded Collaborations for Commercial Space Capabilities space act agreements to four U.S. companies.
![Justice Department Approves ATK-Orbital Merger]()
The U.S. Department of Justice has cleared the planned merger of ATK and Orbital Sciences Corp.
Fortunato joins ATK after six years with Honeywell Aerospace, where he was most recently director of government relations.
![ATK Exec Hints at Antares Engine Selection in Endorsing Orbital’s Failure Recovery Plan]()
ATK Chief Executive Mark W. DeYoung said there are no near-term liquid-propulsion alternatives to Russian engines for U.S. rockets.
![ATK, Orbital Sciences Postpone Merger Vote to Late January]()
ATK on Nov. 17 said its special due-diligence assessment of Orbital Sciences following the Oct. 28 failure of Orbital’s Antares rocket has concluded that the merger of ATK’s Aerospace and Defense group with Orbital remained a good idea.
![ATK Urges Air Force To Consider Solids as It Weighs RD-180 Replacement]()
ATK positioned solid-rocket motors as a relatively near-term replacement for the RD-180, citing the company’s quick development of six new solid motors, some of which were completed in less than two years.
![With ATK Merger, Orbital Would Bring More Satellite and Rocket Work In-House]()
Thompson says Orbital will bring more satellite and rocket work in-house after union.
![ATK To Upgrade Communications at Fla. Launch Site]()
Space Florida selected ATK to upgrade communications systems at Space Launch Complex 46.
Since the shuttle program ended in 2011, ATK’s NASA business has stabilized, if not returned to shuttle-era levels.
![ORS-3 Launch Tested New ATK-developed Flight Safety System]()
The GPS-aided AFSS uses tracking data independent from on-board vehicle instruments to calculate whether a rocket is on course after leaving the launch pad.
![SLS Budget ‘Reasonable,’ ATK Boss Assures Investors]()
NASA spent $1.4 billion of its $1.8 billion SLS budget for 2013 on vehicle development, down from the $1.5 billion it spent in 2012.
![ATK To Supply Stratolaunch Rocket Stages]()
ATK will provide “large-diameter” solid-rocket motors for the first and second stages of Paul Allen-backed Stratolaunch system.
![Ousted from First Orion Flight, Circular ATK Solar Arrays Still Set To Power Cygnus]()
By the time the European-built tug makes its fifth flight to ISS, it will be sporting a distinctive pair of circular arrays.
![After Declines, ATK Sees Stability for Space Business]()
ATK said it now sees light at the end of the tunnel at its Aerospace division after a steep decline following the end of key NASA and U.S. Air Force programs.
XCOR Aerospace of Mojave, Calif., awarded a two-phase contract to ATK Aerospace, under which the Luka, Miss., ATK subsidiary will design and manufacture wings and control surfaces for XCOR’s Lynx Mark I prototype suborbital rocketplane.
![ATK Chief Executive Sees Stabilizing NASA Business]()
ATK's CEO said the company’s NASA business appears to have stabilized now that the agency has settled on the SLS.
![ATK To Develop Advanced Solar Array for NASA]()
ATK’s Space Components Division of Goleta, Calif., will develop a large, low-mass solar array prototype under an 18-month contract from NASA’s Space Technology Program valued at $6.4 million, the company announced Oct. 23.
![ATK: Liberty Launcher’s Upper Stage Could Fly by 2014]()
WASHINGTON — Alliant Techsystems (ATK), one of at least four companies competing to become NASA’s post-shuttle crew-transport provider, said recently completed tank structure tests showed that modifications to the Ariane 5-derived cryogenic upper stage it plans to use for its Liberty launcher can be completed in time to begin test flights in 2014.
