Pegasus is the world’s leading launch system for the deployment of small satellites into low-Earth orbit. Its patented air-launch system, in which the rocket is launched from beneath Orbital’s ...

For the NuSTAR mission, Orbital is providing the LEOStar-2 spacecraft platform, performing overall system integration, and conducting the launch operations with its Pegasus air-launched rocket, a ...

The Pegasus VII rocket takes flight in Huntsville, AL. "It is kind of surreal standing in this open field surrounded by 50 of the top schools in the nation competing for the exact same thing," says ...

From the moment of the first space launch up until now, mankind has been sending various devices and people into space using ...

Orbital and NASA engineers have completed their analysis as to why the Pegasus starboard flight control surface fin locking pin did not retract during the first launch attempt on March 15.

NASASpaceflight.com reported Friday that Northrop’s innovation systems business is moving forward with final pre-flight processes, including re-mating the Pegasus rocket that will carry the ICON ...

TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 30, 2016 ” Orbital ATK (NYSE: OA) is exploring new mission opportunities for its Pegasus XL air-launched rocket after the launch of NASA‘s Ionospheric Connection ...

The FAA has renewed two launch operator licenses for Northrop Grumman for its aircraft-launched Pegasus rocket system from Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, and Cape Canaveral, the agency said ...

Icon should have soared in 2017, but problems with Northrop Grumman's air-launched Pegasus rocket interfered. Despite the long delay, NASA said the $252 million mission did not exceed its price cap.

The Pegasus Rocket, a joint venture, was the first privately developed space launch vehicle. In 1991, the four men who invented, developed, and produced this rocket (one of which was the founder and ...