Orbital ATK

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Orbital ATK and engine-maker GenCorp disagree over cause of Antares crash

Apr 15, 2015 1 min read

Under threat of significant financial losses, conflicting reports of what caused the October 28 (2014) Antares rocket crash have emerged - one from its manufacturer, Orbital ATK, and the other from it…

NASA readies to test history's largest, most powerful booster for its new rocket

Mar 11, 2015 4 min read

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NASA's massive heavy-lift rocket, the Space Launch System, which will one day ferry humans to deep-space destinations and back, has become notorious for the scale of engineering backing it. In Sep…