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Orbital Sciences Corporation (OSC, though commonly referred to as Orbital) is an American company which specializes in the manufacturing and launch of satellites.
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A private spaceship on its first trip to the International Space Station made a flyby of the orbiting laboratory early Thursday, zipping just below the outpost in an unprecedented space first.
The unmanned vehicle, called Dragon , is built by Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX), and is the first commercial spacecraft ever launched toward the space station. During the rendezvous, the spacecraft approached within 1.6 miles (2.5 km) of the outpost. Dragon launched to orbit from Cape Canaveral, Fla., early Tuesday (May 22) atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and is due to arrive at the station on Friday (May 25).Today is a final testing day for the capsule before it can be cleared to attempt its first docking. Crewmembers inside the orbiting lab have been monitoring the vehicle's activities."We all look forward to it," space station Expedition 31 flight engineer Andre Kuipers of the European Space Agency said this morning. "We will dedicate today to Dragon." [ SpaceX's Historic Dragon F...The Virginia-based company is building the unmanned Cygnus space freighter and a new rocket, the Taurus 2, to launch it. The first scheduled demonstration and opera...
The first test flight of a privately built robot space capsule to the International Space Station has been delayed to allow more time to prepare the vehicle, the spa...
U.S. space officials said budget uncertainties will push back the use of private space taxis for transporting astronauts into orbit by at least a year, necessitating...
Fly me to the moon? Sure thing.Private spaceflight company Space Exploration ( SpaceX ) has received tentative approval from NASA to send its Dragon cargo craft on a...
NASA has to consider de-manning the ISS if problems with Russia's fleet persist
NASA's effort to farm out astronauts' space station trips to private companies over the next decade is under fire again, this time by federal deficit hit men.Spacefl...
Japan is poised to launch its second-ever unmanned cargo vessel to the International Space Station early Saturday morning (Jan. 22). The vessel, which was initially ...
From private spaceflights to NASA missions to the moon, Mars and beyond, the next year promises to be a busy one for Americans in space. Here's a preview of just som...
The U.S. Air Force is poised to launch its second robotic X-37B space plane on a secret mission Friday, with some experts speculating that the classified flight will...
What a show!North America was treated to a rare solar light show late Tuesday night, courtesy of a series of massive eruptions that swept the surface of the sun over...
WASHINGTON — NASA is reassuring commercial space firms that it will be a supportive customer for privately built space taxis even as it cautions that Congress could ...
A 50-million-mile target has been set, a straight spaceshot with a clear (though distant) goal. But who will make the first footprint on Mars?Though both Russia and ...
For the first time, a private company will launch a rocket to the International Space Station, sending it on a grocery run this weekend that could be the shape of th...
Several false starts and nearly $400 million in taxpayer funds later, a California space company is aiming in a matter of days to be the first private firm to send i...
WHITE SANDS, New Mexico -- NASA launched a powerful emergency escape system for its new Orion spacecraft on a successful test flight Thursday, even as plans for the ...
In the high-tech sector, there's an unrelenting din about the importance of innovation. Too bad there's precious little of it around.Aside from "disruptive," there's...
It seems not everyone is content to let the legacy of the space shuttle fly away over yonder horizon. Orbital Sciences Corp. has thrown its hat into NASA 's Commerci...
A private spaceship mission to the International Space Station is on track for a planned April 30 launch, which will mark a historic first for the orbiting laborator...
An adrift Intelsat satellite that stopped communicating with its ground controllers last month remains out of control and has begun moving eastward along the geostat...
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