Wallops Island spaceport to host Orbital Taurus II rocket

Orbital Sciences Corp. has picked the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) in Virginia as the base of operations for its new Taurus II rocket, it was announced June 9. Orbital plans to invest about $45 million to assemble, test and launch the Taurus II from MARS, located at NASA’s Wallops Island...

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