Late last month, NASA’s unmanned Antares rocket, filled with 5,000 pounds of cargo intended for the International Space Station, exploded seconds after liftoff. At the time, news sources only ...

We have a range of launches coming up this week, perhaps the most interesting is the launch of the Antares rocket carrying the Cygnus cargo freighter. If you read last week's instalment of This ...

An unmanned Antares rocket carrying nearly 5,000 pounds of supplies to the International Space Station exploded on Oct. 28, destroying everything aboard. "It's hard to describe what it was like ...

Welcome to Edition 7.21 of the Rocket Report! We're publishing the Rocket Report a little early this week due to the ...

For a year, students at Cristo Rey Jesuit school spent five hours a week designing science experiments that would be flown to the International Space Station by the Antares rocket. On Tuesday ...

The launch of Northrop Grumman's Antares rocket was delayed on Thursday after technical issues Nasa is to launch a new zero-gravity toilet for testing at the International Space Station (ISS ...

TASS/. The US Orbital Sciences corporation will buy from Russia’s NPO Energomash research and production association eight more RD-181 engines for the US carrier rocket Antares, the Russian ...

The RD-181 engine was designed for use in the Antares rocket. It is a single combustion chamber rocket engine with afterburning of oxidizing gas, fueled by a kerosene / LOX mixture. It was ...

The agency makes use of various rockets built by companies like Northrop Grumman, the United Launch Alliance, SpaceX and ...