Satellite News

NASA and its international partners are targeting 1 March as the launch date for the next cargo resupply flight to the International Space Station by Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX).

NASA has selected Aerojet of Sacramento, California, for a US$23.3 million contract to develop engineering demonstrations and risk reduction concepts for future advanced boosters for the agency’s Space Launch System (SLS).

The planned first stage propulsion system “hot fire” test of Orbital’s new Antares medium-class rocket on 13 February was halted in the final seconds of the countdown by the rocket’s flight computer, which detected an anomalous condition.

Orbital Sciences Corporation reported its fourth quarter and full year 2012 financial results.