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WALLOPS ISLAND, Va.- The hot fire test of the new Antares rocket engines was completed Tuesday at NASA's Wallops Island Flight Facility on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. The test, which lasted about ...

A plume of white smoke filled the sky and the ground rumbled. All that was missing Tuesday was the familiar sight of a rocket racing away from the Earth. Although the Antares rocket remained bolted to ...

Orbital Sciences Corporation has completed the first test launch of its Antares rocket, successfully deploying a dummy 3.8-tonne spacecraft into low Earth orbit (LEO). The next test flight, due in ...

Six seconds into its last departure for the ISS, Orbital ATK’s Antares rocket exploded. Last night, the newly-redesigned Antares passed its first hurdle to getting back in the air again, ahead of its ...

WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. - A test of an Orbital ATK Antares rocket is scheduled to take place at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility next week. The window for the engine test is from 5 to 8:15 p.m. on May 31.