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Q&A with Mark Sirangelo, leader of Sierra Nevada Space Systems
Sierra Nevada Corp. has business activity across a spectrum of programs, from Orbcomm communications satellites to parts on the New Horizons mission to Pluto, but all eyes are now on the company's Dream Chaser spacecraft. Sierra Nevada's Mark Sirangelo met with reporters at the 2015 International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight.
Q&A with Frank Culbertson, president of Orbital ATK’s space systems group
Frank Culbertson, a former shuttle and station astronaut and now head of Orbital ATK's space systems group, spoke with Spaceflight Now's Stephen Clark on the sidelines of the 2015 International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight.
Cygnus supply ship takes weather satellite’s slot in Atlas manifest
Orbital ATK plans to launch its next two commercial resupply missions to the International Space Station on Atlas 5 rockets, grabbing a launch slot in March after a next-generation U.S. weather satellite was delayed, industry officials said.
Space Station Live: October 7, 2015
A video update from mission control Houston on activities aboard the International Space Station. (Membership required)
Workers complete $15 million in repairs to Antares launch pad
Repair crews in Virginia have restored the Antares booster's launch pad -- damaged in an explosive rocket crash nearly one year ago -- to flight-ready status as the Orbital ATK launcher moves toward a return-to-flight in 2016.
NASA might pick two Discovery missions, but at a price
A senior NASA official said Monday the agency could select two new robotic planetary science missions next year for launch in the early 2020s, and the five finalists favor Venus and asteroid research.
Hurricane Joaquin eyed from space station
Astronauts on the International Space Station spied powerful Hurricane Joaquin spinning in the Bahamas in a spectacular photo showing the eye of the storm Friday.
Charon takes center stage in new batch of New Horizons images
With meandering canyons four times as long, and twice as deep, as the Grand Canyon in the American Southwest, the crust of Pluto's moon Charon may have been shaped by violent eruptions and geology once thought improbable for a small body in the far depths of the solar system, scientists said Thursday.
Russian resupply vessel blasts off from Kazakhstan
A Progress supply craft loaded with 3.1 tons of cargo lifted off Thursday from Kazakhstan, launching on a six-hour pursuit of the International Space Station culminating with a smooth docking to the research lab's aft port.
HTV supply ship sets course for re-entry
Heading for a destructive re-entry over the South Pacific with several tons of trash, Japan's fifth HTV cargo craft departed the International Space Station on Monday after overcoming a last-minute snag in the lab's robotics system.