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 ...

Both were on Orbital's Taurus rockets. The next NASA Earth sciences launch on a Taurus rocket is scheduled for 2013 but the space agency can still change launch vehicles if the Taurus proves ...

The Taurus XL rocket carrying NASA's Glory satellite lifted off early Friday morning from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, but fell to the sea several minutes later. The same thing ...

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.

Glory launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, on a Taurus XL rocket. The nose cone of the rocket covering the satellite failed to separate, making it too heavy and too slow to ...

after the shroud designed to protect the spacecraft during its climb to orbit atop a Taurus XL rocket failed to separate, agency officials said. The Taurus XL, built by Orbital Sciences Corp. of ...

Built by Orbital ATK, the Minotaur C rocket is a hybrid version of the company's old Taurus XL rocket, Pegasus rocket and Minotaur family of rockets. After Orbital ATK suffered a series of launch ...

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 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. The four-stage ...

The next Vandenberg launch will be a Taurus rocket, also made by Orbital Sciences, scheduled to carry a NASA observation satellite into orbit on Feb. 23.

The Taurus rocket briefly veered off course about 83 seconds into the flight, shortly after the first stage separated. The rocket’s correction motors put it back on course, but apparently too ...

Glory launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, on a Taurus XL rocket. The nose cone of the rocket covering the satellite failed to separate, making it too heavy and too slow to ...