Feature Stories

U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch toured Orbital ATK's Promontory manufacturing facilities and took the opportunity to speak to enthusiastic employees on Thursday, August 11. Senator Hatch thanked the audience for the important work Orbital ATK does for space...

Preparations for full-scale tests of Orbital ATK’s solid rocket motors begin months in advance. Technicians set hundreds of sensors in place, verify data collection systems and make sure test equipment is working correctly. Team members are laser-focused...

Orbital ATK has been involved with NASA's great space telescopes for decades designing and building key components for both the Hubble Space Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), Hubble's successor. Hubble has been in orbit for over 25 ...

Earlier this summer, employees from Orbital ATK's Launch Vehicle Division teamed with Any Soldier to host a drive meant to boost the troop's spirits during the summer months when U.S. deployed forces receive fewer packages. Employees chose two...

Earlier this month, a “small astronaut” named Harrison visited our Dulles campus to learn more about Orbital ATK and our space systems group. Harrison is not your typical astronaut - he and his father Aaron are a father and son photography team whose...

Each year, the U.S. Space and Rocket Center’s Space Camp, located in Huntsville, Alabama, selects companies to highlight throughout the summer. As the featured company for the week of July 11, Orbital ATK employees pitched in to mentor the young...

The Cygnus program has been selected to receive the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Space Systems Award for 2016. The cargo delivery spacecraft was honored for outstanding achievements in architecture, analysis, design and...

This year, Orbital ATK awarded $135,000 in scholarships to 70 students pursuing undergraduate education through the Orbital ATK Scholarship Program. Recipients were selected from an academically talented pool of applicants from around the country who are...

On Saturday, July 2, NASA’s Balloon Program Office, with support from Orbital ATK, successfully completed the second test flight of its Super Pressure Balloon (SPB) at 3:54 p.m. EDT, setting a new flight duration record for a mid-latitude flight of a ...

QM-2 Update - June 28, 2016 Orbital ATK successfully conducted the final qualification test for NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) boosters on June 28 at its Promontory, Utah, facility. The QM-2 test was the second and final qualification test of the...