Video: Secret Space Plane Shatters Orbital Record as Chinese Rival Looms

Orbital Sciences Tests Rocket

Orbital Sciences blasted a new rocket into space, in a successful test flight aimed at putting the company on track to becoming the second commercial entity to transport cargo to the international space station.

wsj.com (29 days ago)

Orbital Sciences on the launch pad, in the spotlight

Digest: Orbital Sciences Corp. today will attempt to launch a new rocket from Virginia under a NASA program developing commercial vehicles to resupply the International Space Station. Orbital is a very different company than SpaceX, the first private company to reach the station.

floridatoday.com (1 month and 3 days ago)

SpaceX Prepares For Second ISS Flight – Orbital Prepares Rocket Test

Space X is making final preparations for its second cargo flight to the International Space Station, currently scheduled for the end of next week, while Orbital Sciences, the other company with a commercial cargo resupply contract with NASA is scheduled ...

wired.com (2 months and 28 days ago)

Chinese Internet Giant Baidu to Acquire Video Site PPS Net TV (Report)

The video unit of the "Chinese Google" will buy the rival service for around $400 million, putting it in greater competition with online video market leader Youku Toudu.     

hollywoodreporter.com (26 days ago)

US Military's Mysterious Robotic Space Plane Marks Two Months In Orbit

The US military has had a robotic space plane in orbit around Earth since December - and no one knows what it's doing. The US Air Force's X-37B space craft is a reusable, currently unmanned vehicle similar - though smaller - than the retired Space Shuttle. The Boeing-built X-37B is about 30 feet long, 15 feet wide, weighs 11,000 pounds and can carry about the same load as a...

huffingtonpost.com (2 months and 29 days ago)

-INTERVIEW-Orbital impatient with progress on new US satellite plan

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Orbital Sciences Corp worries that budget pressures and "old habits" may limit funding for the U.S. government's move toward smaller, less complex satellites aimed at avoiding cost overruns and delays that have often plagued space programs.

reuters.com (3 months and 4 days ago)

Freddie Wong Shatters Kickstarter Film Record, Will Use Money to Make 'Harry Potter' of Web Video

msn.com (3 months and 6 days ago)

European Space Agency Decides Which Asteroid They'll Go Smash Into First

2022 mission to a double asteroid could be a trial run for a deflection mission. A European mission to intercept and deflect an asteroid now has a target: asteroid Didymos. The proposed Asteroid Impact and Deflection Assessment mission couldn’t have had better timing, sounding a call for proposals in the days before a huge meteorite exploded above northern Russia and an even...

popsci.com (2 months and 24 days ago)

Orbital Sciences launches Antares rocket

VIRGINIA-BASED Orbital Sciences plans a demonstration run to the space station with the Cygnus capsule in three months after testing its Antares rocket.    

news.com.au (29 days ago)

Mum's The Word On Military's 'Mini-Shuttle' Mission

By: Leonard David Published: 02/22/2013 06:53 AM EST on SPACE.comThe U.S. Air Force's mysterious X-37B space plane is quietly chalking up mileage in space more than two months after its latest launch into orbit. The robotic X-37B space plane soared into orbit atop an Atlas 5 rocket from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Dec. 11. The mini-shuttle's mission is...

huffingtonpost.com (2 months and 28 days ago)