News Archive / Tagged: Virginia Space

• 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 […]

• 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.

• Rocket Lab announces new launch site at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility

  Jason RhianOctober 18th, 2018

  California-based Rocket Lab has announced a new site from which it plans to fly its Electron rocket from - one based in the United States.