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September 13, 2024

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[ September 12, 2024 ] SpaceX launches 21 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from West Coast Falcon 9
[ September 12, 2024 ] First non-government spacewalk goes off without a hitch for Polaris Dawn crew Mission Reports
[ September 12, 2024 ] SpaceX to launches five BlueBird satellites on Falcon 9 flight from Cape Canaveral Falcon 9
[ September 12, 2024 ] Polaris Dawn crew gears up for Thursday spacewalk Mission Reports
[ September 11, 2024 ] NASA astronaut Don Pettit makes fourth trip to the International Space Station Mission Reports

Orbital ATK picks up where it left off with Orion abort system

July 7, 2015 Stephen Clark

Orbital ATK has cinched $188 million in contracts to complete development of the Orion crew capsule’s needle-shaped launch abort system, resuming work stalled in the wake up a major shakeup of NASA’s human spaceflight program by the Obama administration in 2010.