Feature Stories

Orbital ATK Launch Vehicles Division and supplier Martinez & Turek, Inc. (M&T) were presented with the prestigious Nunn-Perry Award in recognition of outstanding performance in the Department of Defense's (DoD) Mentor-Protégé Program. The award was...

The SS Rick Husband reentered the atmosphere at 9:29 a.m. EDT, concluding the successful OA-6 mission.

The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio, recently opened their fourth building to the public. The building was privately financed by the Air Force Museum Foundation, Inc., an IRS 501(c)(3)...

On the evening of June 9, the NASA/JPL Dawn Program Team acccepted the 2015 Robert J. Collier Trophy at a presentation ceremony in Arlington, Virginia. The award was given to the Dawn team "In recognition of the extraordinary achievements of orbiting and...

Orbital ATK conducted a full-power "hot fire" test of the upgraded first stage propulsion system of its Antares medium-class rocket using new RD-181 main engines today at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility. Preliminary data points to a successful test ...

On Tuesday, May 24, employees from the Dulles branch of Orbital ATK’s Emerging Professionals Investing in Careers (EPIC) program volunteered their time to support a local Family Science Night. The Children’s Science Center, based in Fairfax, Virginia,...

The Thaicom 8 commercial communications satellite was successfully delivered to orbit on May 27, 2016 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and is operating as planned.

Elementary school students in Arlington, Virginia, reached a major milestone in space exploration this week with the successful deployment of their “CubeSat” Satellite and the help of Orbital ATK. The CubeSat, STMSat-1 (Credit: St. Thomas More...

Brian Duffy, Vice President of Johnson Space Center Exploration Programs for the company’s Propulsion Systems Division, received the honor of being inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame on Saturday, May 14. Orbital ATK's Brian Duffy next to...

Antares First Stage Rolled Out for Test   Orbital ATK’s Antares first stage with the new engines is rolled from NASA Wallops Flight Facility’s Horizontal Integration Facility to Virginia Space’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport  Pad-0A on May 12, 2016 ...