Feature Stories

NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) is one step closer to flight following Orbital ATK’s March 11 successful five-segment rocket motor qualification ground test. Immediately following the spectacular two-minute test, it appeared that everything went ...

Orbital ATK’s Dulles, Virginia campus recently hosted more than 200 girls from grades 5-12, along with their chaperones, for the “Sharing our Success” event. During the event, the students had the opportunity to learn about the aerospace industry as...

Completed in just 20 months, Orbital ATK has delivered the SKY MEXICO-1 (SKYM-1) satellite to the launch site in Kourou, French Guiana for its DIRECTV customer. The spacecraft, based on the company’s GEOStar-2TM platform, was produced at the company’s...

On the evening of April 24, shining stars in the space industry stepped out in their finest for the annual Rotary National Award for Space Achievement (RNASA) Foundation award gala....

On April 8-11, budding rocket scientists gathered on a farm outside of Huntsville, Alabama, to launch home-grown rockets high in the sky for bragging rights, prizes and dreams of careers in engineering and aerospace.

April 5, 1990 was a defining moment within the aerospace industry as Orbital ATK’s Pegasus air-launched rocket ignited on its maiden mission as the world’s first privately developed space launch vehicle.  On that day, 25 years ago, the Pegasus winged...

The U.S. Army has awarded Orbital ATK a $120 million contract for additional production of the Precision Guidance Kit (PGK) for 155mm artillery. Once fielded to the warfighter, PGK will transform conventional 155mm artillery projectiles into a near ...

To celebrate the listing of Orbital ATK shares on the New York Stock Exchange, Orbital ATK President and CEO David Thompson and members of the company's leadership team had the privilege of ringing the closing bell on Friday, March 20. A replay of the ...

In a journey that began at the Orbital ATK Satellite Manufacturing Facility in Virginia, NASA’s Dawn spacecraft is now in orbit around the dwarf planet Ceres. As the spacecraft enters its eighth year of a nine-year-long mission, Dawn has already ...

A large crowd comprised of media, industry, space enthusiasts and the general public gathered on March 11 at Orbital ATK’s test facility in Promontory, Utah, to witness the first qualification ground test of the five-segment rocket motor that will be...