Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE:ORB), one of the world’s leading space technology companies, today announced that it successfully carried out a long-duration test firing of the liquid-fueled AJ26 ...

The NASA QuikTOMS ozone monitoring satellite launched earlier today was lost due to the failure of the commercial launch vehicle purchased by the Agency to deliver the payload into orbit. QuikTOMS was ...

Taurus uses Space Launch Complex 576 E, an old Atlas missile facility. But unlike traditional rockets, Taurus doesn?t use a standard launch pad. Instead, its launch stand sits on a concrete pad, and ...

An expansion project for Orbital Sciences Corp. in Chandler will give the company more room to develop and manufacture a new, more powerful rocket to supply the international space station and launch ...

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The Air Force is closely tracking the investigation into the recent failure of a Taurus rocket, a sibling to a Minotaur space booster scheduled for liftoff next month from Vandenberg Air Force Base.

After a five-year absence, the Taurus XL rocket will return to Vandenberg Air Force Base for a NASA mission to measure the chief culprit of global warming.

Aerojet engineers will begin testing their version of the Soviet-era NK-33 oxygen/kerosene rocket engine as early as April at Stennis Space Center, Miss., following hot-fire tests of the Russian ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - The U.S. government's first attempt to map carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere from space ended early on Tuesday after a botched satellite launch from California, ...