News Archive / Tagged: Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport

• Rocket Lab’s Electron deploys two Capella radar satellites

  Steve HammerMarch 17th, 2023

  With a loud roar and trail of flame, Rocket Lab’s Electron hoisted a pair of Capella Space satellites into the evening sky.

• Minotaur I rocket lofts classified NROL-111 payload into orbit

  Steve HammerJune 15th, 2021

  A Minotaur I rocket fired off of Pad 0B at Wallops Island, Virginia, to send the NROL-111 mission into orbit for the National Reconnaissance Office.

• NG-15 Cygnus set to send new experiments to the space station

  Theresa CrossFebruary 18th, 2021

  Northrop Grumman is set to send its NG-15 Cygnus resupply spacecraft to the International Space Station under NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services contract.

• Minotaur IV sucessfully sends NROL-129 into blue, Virginia skies

  Steve HammerJuly 15th, 2020

  Virginia based Northrop Grumman today launched classified mission NROL-129 for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) aboard a Minotaur IV rocket from launchpad 0B at The Mid Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS), adjacent to NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Virginia. The countdown clock was held at T-minus 16 minutes for 46 minutes, allowing for multiple […]

• GALLERY: Alan Bean makes art – one more time

  Jason RhianNovember 2nd, 2019

  WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. -- Northrop Grumman's Antares rocket successfully launched the "Alan Bean" Cygnus spacecraft at 9:59 a.m. EST (13:59 GMT) on Saturday, Nov. 2, 2019. The NG-12 Cygnus spacecraft and the 8,200 pounds (3,719 kg) worth of crew supplies, cargo, experiments and hardware was launched from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport's Pad-0A in Virginia.

• Northrop Grumman’s NG 12 paints the sky in honor of an American legend

  Patrick AttwellNovember 2nd, 2019

  WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. – NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services program continues to send payloads arcing across the sky. Today Northrop Grumman did it again, this one's orbital trajectory was marked - with a paintbrush.

• Gallery: S.S. Roger Chaffee lifts off on flight to ISS

  Jason RhianApril 17th, 2019

  Taking to the skies at the very opening of a five-minute long launch window, Northrop Grumman Corporation's S.S. Roger Chaffee Cygnus cargo freighter leaped into the skies from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport's Pad-0A. The mission got underway at 4:46 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, April 17, 2019.

• How does Northrop Grumman secure Antares during powerful storms?

  Jason RhianNovember 15th, 2018

  WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. -- A powerful "Nor'easter" storm that is hanging off the Atlantic Coast has caused mission managers to push back the flight an additional day. What does Northrop Grumman have in place to handle turbulent weather such as this one?