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Orbital To Provide Launch Abort System For NASA’s Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle

Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB) today announced that it will play a significant role on the Lockheed Martin Corporation (NYSE: LMT)-led team that was selected yesterday by the National ...
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Orbital to Provide Abort Test Booster for NASA Testing

Initial Three-Year Contract from U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center, Space Development and Test Wing Valued at Approximately $35 Million; Contract Also Includes $45 Million of Options for ...
Space.com

Russian Soyuz rocket suffers rare last-minute abort during launch of 3 astronauts to ISS (video)

Update for 1 p.m. ET: The abort of today's Soyuz launch may have been due to a dead battery. "The reason has been identified, we just discovered at a meeting of the state commission that the reason ...
NextBigFuture

NASA Readies Orion Abort Safety For First Manned Human Moon Mission in 50 Years – Feb-April 2026

NASA’s Artemis II SLS (Space Launch System) rocket is getting ready to send four astronauts from Earth on a journey around the Moon in 2026. Engineers have upgraded the agency’s Moon SLS rocket inside ...