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Cygnus service module arrives in Florida for station flight
The power and propulsion section of Orbital ATK's next Cygnus supply ship, featuring new solar panel and fuel tank designs, arrived at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday to be joined with a cargo module for a Dec. 3 launch to the International Space Station.
Lockheed Martin targets up to four commercial Atlas 5s per year
Lockheed Martin's launch services team hopes to lure up to four commercial customers per year to fly on United Launch Alliance's Atlas 5 booster as a stream of U.S. government missions is forecast to dry up starting in 2017, according to Lockheed Martin's rocket sales chief.
Q&A with Tory Bruno, ULA’s chief executive
Tory Bruno has held the top post at United Launch Alliance for a little more than a year, and it has been anything but business as usual for the top U.S. launch provider. He recently spoke with reporters at ULA's Cape Canaveral launch control center.
Q&A with Steve Skladanek, president of Lockheed Martin Commercial Launch Services
Steve Skladanek leads Lockheed Martin's rocket sales force charged with pushing the Atlas 5 rocket, which has largely been on the sidelines of the commercial launch business in recent years, on the global satellite market.
Atlas 5 for third launch this month begins coming together
With its liftoff just 18 days away to deploy a new Global Positioning System satellite, stacking of the next United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket began Monday at the vertical assembly building outside Complex 41.
ULA selects launch pads for new Vulcan rocket
United Launch Alliance's next-generation Vulcan rocket will lift off from the company's existing Atlas 5 launch facilities in Florida and California, according to the company's Vulcan program manager.
Sierra Nevada on watch for critical cargo award
A prototype of Sierra Nevada's Dream Chaser space plane is nearing shipment to California's Mojave Desert to resume runway landing tests as officials wait for word from NASA whether the company will win a competition to ferry cargo to the International Space Station.
Photos: Atlas 5 rocket soars from West Coast
A collection of pad photos from the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket flight carrying the NROL-55 cargo for the National Reconnaissance Office.
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.
Photos: California’s predawn liftoff of Atlas 5 rocket
Making its second launch in just six days, a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket flight blasted off Thursday from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.