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.

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.

Six and a half years after its last launch ended in failure, private spaceflight company Orbital ATK's Taurus-XL rocket -- now called Minotaur-C -- has made it into space. Since its maiden flight ...

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 NASA climate-studying satellite landed in the ocean instead of space early today after a Taurus XL rocket malfunctioned shortly after blasting off from Vandenberg Air Force Base.

NASA's OCO spacecraft and its Taurus XL booster were built by Orbital Sciences. The four-stage solid fueled Taurus XL rocket stands about 93 feet (27 meters) tall and is capable of launching ...

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After spending most of today troubleshooting a problem that prevented the Taurus XL rocket from blasting off early this morning, NASA officials decided to delay the launch until at least ...