Satellite News

Orbital Sciences, one of NASA’s two partners participating in the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) programme, announced it is now targeting a mid-September launch window for its demonstration flight to the International Space Station.

Aerojet Rocketdyne and NASA successfully completed a series of hot-fire tests on a liquid-oxygen/gaseous hydrogen rocket injector assembly built using additive manufacturing technology [a.k.a. “3D printing”].

Northrop Grumman Corporation said its patented hemispherical resonator gyro (HRG) technology, which is used for military and commercial space applications, recently achieved a major milestone of 25 million hours of continuous operation without a single mission failure.

NASA will use the International Space Station to test a new communications technology that could dramatically improve spacecraft communications, enhance commercial missions and strengthen transmission of scientific data.