October 2017
Asgardia celebrates its first birthday
... one year. The Asgardia-1 satellite is now in the integration hall being prepared for launch as a part of the OA-8 Cygnus mission this autumn and for subsequent deployment when the vehicle performs an additional research programme after...
January 2018
Maximising the economic opportunities of deep space
... make space settlement both desirable and practical. Concept image of Orbital ATK’s cislunar habitat, based on its Cygnus spacecraft. Orbital is one of six US companies developing full-sized ground prototypes and concepts for deep space...
July 2018
Using algae to support astronauts on deep space missions
... as the independent variable was lost, results from those experiments were also rendered unreliable. Orbital ATK’s Cygnus cargo spacecraft, packed with more than 5,100 pounds of cargo and research equipment, is captured using the...
May 2019
Cold comfort for astronauts
... ISS. Vehicles include the Russian Soyuz capsules for crew and cargo, and the US Dragon and Cygnus capsules from SpaceX and Northrop Grumman for cargo. Analogues Humans are motivated by a desire to explore the...
June 2022
Patent protection for space manufacturing
... International Space Station in April 2021, including the SpaceX Crew-1 and Crew-2 Dragons, and Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus-15 resupply ship, all from the United States, and Russia’s Progress 75 and 77 resupply ships and Soyuz...
21 October 2016
Soyuz MS-02/48S successfully docks with the ISS
... days will be busy for the new ISS crew members as they await the arrival of an Orbital ATK Cygnus cargo spacecraft that will bring equipment and supplies to the station. Then, on October 29 th, members of Expedition 48/49 will...
