Northrup Grumman bought three flights on Falcon 9 for Cygnus flights, since they only have two Antares boosters left, and the Ukranian companies probably won't be building any more, and the Russians certainly won't be selling any more engines.
Firefly is picked to build a new first stage to replace it. Will be Antares 330. 1xx series was AJ-26(Nk-33) based. 2xx series was RD-190 based. 3xx series will be Miranda engine based. (Never heard of it before).
The Chinese commercial launch company Galactic Energy has launched a mission it has dubbed “White… The post Galactic Energy Ceres-1 launches three Earth observation satellites appeared first on NASASpaceFlight.com.
At 05:52 UTC on August 9, a Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M rocket launched from Site 31/6 at… The post Russia launches Soyuz rocket with Iranian satellite and CubeSats appeared first on NASASpaceFlight.com.
