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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.
Second Atlas 5 rocket launched in span of six days
Churning out the launches at a rapid pace, the Atlas 5 program sent another rocket soaring like clockwork Thursday for deployment of a national security satellite duo from California.
Video: Liftoff of Atlas 5 on NROL-55
A replay of the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket launching the classified NROL-55 payload for the National Reconnaissance Office from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.
Photos: Gantry retracted from Atlas 5 rocket
The 8-million-pound mobile service tower is retracted from around the Atlas 5 rocket, revealing the 19-story-tall vehicle for liftoff from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, on NROL-55.
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.
Live coverage: Atlas 5 countdown and launch journal
A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket blasted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 5:49 a.m. local time (8:49 a.m. EDT; 1249 GMT) Thursday on the classified National Reconnaissance Office NROL-55 mission.
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.
Intel-gathering spacecraft launch on Atlas 5 scheduled for Thursday
Poised for its one and only satellite launch of the year, the National Reconnaissance Office will conduct a hush-hush flight Thursday using a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket from California.
Photos: NROL-55 payload joins Atlas booster rocket for launch
This photo gallery shows the classified National Reconnaissance Office payload, already encapsulated in the 14-foot-diameter nose cone, being lifted atop the United Launch Alliance Atlas-Centaur rocket at Vandenberg Air Force Base for liftoff Oct. 8.