When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. PARIS — The inaugural flight of Orbital Sciences Corp.'s Taurus 2 rocket will be delayed ...

The Virginia-based Orbital Sciences has picked Antares as the new name for its Taurus 2 rocket, a booster designed to launch a robot cargo ship on NASA deliveries.

WASHINGTON — A rocket carrying an Earth-observation satellite plummeted into the Pacific Ocean after a failed launch attempt Friday, the second-straight blow to NASA’s weakened environmental ...

The Taurus rocket has launched nine times, six of them successfully. NASA and Orbital spent more than a year studying and trying to fix the problem that caused 2009's Orbiting Carbon Observatory ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A rocket carrying an Earth-observation satellite plummeted into the Pacific Ocean after a failed launch attempt Friday, the second-straight blow to NASA's weakened environmental ...

A 13-story rocket bound for the International Space Station exploded just after liftoff Tuesday evening off the coast of Virginia, ... Orbital ran into failures with its Taurus XL rocket.

At 2:49 p.m. EDT today Orbital’s Taurus rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California carrying NASA’s QuikTOMS ozone monitoring satellite, ORBIMAGE’S OrbView-4 high ...

The launch failure that doomed NASA's Glory climate satellite shouldn't affect plans for the rocket's builder to fly cargo ships – and possibly even manned spacecraft – for NASA, the company said.

Orbital will immediately convene and lead a failure investigation committee that will include representatives from Orbital and ORBIMAGE to determine the cause of today’s launch failure. NASA ...

A Taurus rocket lifts off in 2011 on the ill-fated launch of the Glory satellite. That launch, and the previous Taurus mission, failed because their payload fairing failed to separate, a problem ...

March 4, 2011— -- NASA's Glory satellite, launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California before dawn Friday, crashed in the Pacific Ocean, apparently when the nose cone on its Taurus ...

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