January 9th, 2014 by
Rocket: Antares; Payload: Cygnus/Orb-1; Date: 9 January 2014, 1807 UTC; Launch site: Wallops Flight Facility, USA. Following a 10-minute ascent, the Cygnus spacecraft was successfully deployed by the Antares upper stage and placed into its intended orbit of about 220 x 280 km above the Earth, inclined at 51.6 degrees to the equator.
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January 9th, 2014 by
The flight software and avionics for NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) were integrated and powered for testing today at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, as part of a milestone known as first light.
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January 9th, 2014 by
Lockheed Martin will continue tracking and sharing data on orbiting space assets and debris through a US$3.9 million contract from the U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center. Under this contract, Lockheed Martin will continue to develop the Non-Traditional Data Pre-Processor (NDPP) under the Integrated Space Command and Control (ISC2) contract.
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