Tag: Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems
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Halfway through all-sky survey, NASA’s planet-hunting TESS mission gets extension
Artist’s concept of the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. Credit: NASA NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, fresh off a two-year extension to keep operating through 2022, has turned its cameras to image the northern sky after cataloguing nearly 1,000 candidate planets around other stars in the first year of its mission. The TESS mission reached the…
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Photos: NASA conducts key Orion abort test
The Orion test vehicle lifts off on a converted Peacekeeper booster at 7 a.m. EDT (1100 GMT) Tuesday from pad 46 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. Credit: U.S. Air Force photo by James Rainier NASA simulated an in-flight launch abort of an Orion crew capsule high above Cape Canaveral on Tuesday, in a…
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NASA successfully tests Orion launch abort system before moon flights
Officials hailed an action-packed three-minute test flight Tuesday over Cape Canaveral that exercised the Orion spacecraft’s launch abort rocket, a key safety system on the capsule NASA is developing to carry astronauts back to the moon. “We couldn’t have asked for a better flight, better mission, better performance,” said Don Reed, head of the…
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Watch replays of the Orion inflight abort test
Watch replays from launch pad and tracking cameras of the Orion AA-2 inflight abort test conducted at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on July 2, 2019. Video: NASA.
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Critical abort test of NASA’s Orion crew capsule set for Tuesday
The abort test booster and Orion test article stand at Space Launch Complex-46 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on June 27. Credit: NASA A three-minute test flight Tuesday morning over Cape Canaveral will help ensure NASA’s Orion crew capsule — the vehicle being built to carry astronauts back to the moon — can safely…
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Orion data recorders come with return-to-sender instructions
Jenny Devolites, NASA’s test conductor for the Orion ascent abort test, holds an Orion flight data recorder during a press conference Monday. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now NASA has a plan to retrieve 12 ejectable data recorders released from an Orion test capsule in the waters off Cape Canaveral following a launch abort test Tuesday, but…
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Northrop Grumman looking into dramatic nozzle anomaly on Omega rocket motor
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Near the end of a ground-shaking test firing of Northrop Grumman’s solid-propellant Castor 600 rocket motor — the first stage of a new booster being designed to launch spy satellites and other national security payloads — a major part of the rocket’s big nozzle appeared to break apart,…
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World’s largest airplane completes first flight
Stratolaunch’s rocket carrier jet, the largest in the world, took off from the Mojave Air and Space Port shortly after 7 a.m. PDT (10 a.m. EDT; 1400 GMT) Saturday. Credit: Gene Blevins/LA Daily News Built for hauling rockets aloft to launch satellites, the world’s biggest airplane landed Saturday after a widely-anticipated test flight over California’s…
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Photos: Stratolaunch’s giant airplane flies over Mojave
Stratolaunch’s rocket carrier jet, the largest aircraft in the world by wing span, took off Saturday morning from the Mojave Air and Space Port in California for its first test flight. The twin-fuselage airplane took off at 6:58 a.m. PDT (9:58 a.m. EDT; 1358 GMT) Saturday and flew for nearly two-and-a-half hours, reaching a top…
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SpaceX begins 2019 with eighth and final launch for upgraded Iridium network
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 7:31 a.m. PST (10:31 a.m. EST; 1531 GMT) Friday with 10 more Iridium communications satellites. Credit: SpaceX Ten Iridium communications satellites rode a Falcon 9 rocket into orbit Friday from California in the eighth and final launch for Iridium’s upgraded network…