Orbital Sciences Corp. of Dulles, Va., will design, manufacture, integrate and test the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) selected by NASA earlier this month for a new all-sky search of habitable zone exoplanets under a $75 million, four-year space agency contract, the company announced April 24.

Continuing cuts will widen gap in U.S. human exploration capabilities

On an otherwise typical morning on vacation at his parents’ apartment, Raytheon engineer, Steve H., walked over to the table to grab the morning edition of the New York Times

In 1960, the United States propelled two six-inch-long television cameras into space on a satellite called TIROS 1. Rotating slowly above Earth, the satellite beamed back still images from two-watt transmitters

When Robert Curbeam was a kid, he spent hours designing airplanes and rockets: sketching out the fins, coloring in the flames and pondering the sweep of each hand-drawn wing

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Launch of the Orbital Sciences Corp. Antares liquid-fueled rocket on April 21 gives NASA a second U.S.-owned vehicle to use in resupplying the International Space Station, vindicating a commercial approach that has been in play through two presidential administrations.

A relatively simple technology originally developed to smooth potentially dangerous vibrations in the defunct Ares I crew launch vehicle is finding its way into the wider world as a way to steady buildings, aircraft, ships and other structures reacting to winds, waves and even earthquakes.