Stratolaunch expects to conduct the first flight of its giant aircraft this summer as it develops a broad spectrum of launch services that will make use of it, the company said April 16.
An agreement to do engine testing at a NASA center is the latest sign that Stratolaunch is considering developing its own launch vehicle for its giant aircraft.
Orbital ATK has no plans to phase out its Pegasus rocket despite limited demand for the small launch vehicle.
In its first flight in nearly three and a half years, an Orbital ATK Pegasus XL rocket successfully launched eight satellites for NASA Dec. 15 that will be used to improve hurricane forecasts.
Orbital Sciences will launch a small NASA heliophysics mission aboard the venerable Pegasus XL air-launched rocket in 2017 under a $56.3 million contract award.
Orbital Sciences will launch eight Earth observing nanosatellites for NASA in October 2016 aboard its air-launched Pegasus rocket.
A solar observatory built by Lockheed Martin Space Systems’ Advanced Technology Center arrived at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., for integration with an Orbital Sciences Corp. Pegasus XL.
WASHINGTON — The cancellation of NASA’s Gravity and Extreme Magnetism Small Explorer (GEMS) X-ray telescope mission could cost up to 150 Orbital Sciences Corp. employees their jobs and may force the Dulles, Va.-based satellite and launch vehicle manufacturer to retire its reliable but underbooked Pegasus XL rocket.
NASA has postponed the launch of its Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) mission for an unspecified number of weeks because of suspected problems with its Pegasus launch vehicle’s flight software, the agency said March 16.
I recently read your editorial “Don’t Shortchange ALASA” [Nov. 21, page 18], with which I generally agree. However, I was dismayed by your description of our Pegasus program as the “one qualified success” of the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in space launch vehicles and by the inattention to the historical facts of its development and operations. Contrary to your interpretation, the Pegasus program, as measured against virtually any common space industry benchmark, has been an “unqualified” success for more than two decades.
Dulles, Va.-based Orbital Sciences Corp. said July 1 that it has booked an order to launch NASA’s Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) spacecraft in 2012 aboard a Pegasus XL rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.
Dulles, Va.-based Orbital Sciences Corp. said July 1 that it has booked an order to launch NASA’s Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) spacecraft in 2012 aboard a Pegasus XL rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.
WASHINGTON — Orbital Sciences Corp. of Dulles, Va., will launch a small sun-watching telescope for NASA in December 2012 under a $40 million contract the U.S. space agency announced June 8.
Orbital Sciences Corp. likely will decide in the next year or so whether to continue offering its air-launched Pegasus XL small rocket, demand for which has faded in recent years, according to David W. Thompson, the company’s chairman and chief executive.
