Feature Stories

A shark moves through the water with speed and agility, always focused on moving forward. It is in this same vein that Northrop Grumman recently developed SharkSat, a pioneering payload to demonstrate on-orbit mission agility and meet demands for rapid...

The electromagnetic spectrum has become an increasingly contested warfighting environment. The proliferation of modern anti-ship missiles has also driven urgent demand for a flexible, mature and integrated electronic warfare (EW) and ship defense system...

As the average age of aircraft inventories rises, military services worldwide are increasingly embracing the cost-effective solution of modernizing existing platforms as an alternative to purchasing brand new...

Orbital ATK further revealed details of its all-American OmegA™ launch vehicle supporting the Evolved, Expandable Launch Vehicle (EEVLV) program for the U.S. Air Force this week at the Space Symposium in Colorado Springs. As one of the company’s ...

Under a contract awarded by NASA in 2013, Orbital ATK designed, manufactured, integrated and tested the space agency’s next planet hunter: the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). The spacecraft began its two-year mission on Wednesday, April 18,...

The HYLAS 4 commercial communications satellite launched aboard an Arianespace Ariane 5 rocket from Kourou, French Guiana on April 5, 2018 at 5:34 p.m. ET.

Orbital ATK successfully tested an SR 118 rocket motor at the company’s Promontory, Utah, facility on March 29. This ground test produced just the right amount of smoke and fire – it’s always exciting to witness a rocket test or launch, and this one ...

Orbital ATK’s Dulles, Virginia, facility recently celebrated the opening of the campus’s new Makerspace, a creative laboratory designed to encourage employees to think outside the box when it comes to solving engineering problems.   Orbital ATK's...

Orbital ATK recently completed the 25,000th composite part in support of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner program. The composite frames, the equivalent of approximately 167 ship sets, are a demonstration of Orbital ATK's ability to meet customers' high quality...

During this year’s SATELLITE 2018 Conference and Exhibition, Orbital ATK, a leader in the emerging space logistics market, debuted the next generation of in-orbit satellite serving technology with the introduction of Mission Extension Pods (MEPs)™ and ...