Feature Stories

On April 8-11, budding rocket scientists gathered on a farm outside of Huntsville, Alabama, to launch home-grown rockets high in the sky for bragging rights, prizes and dreams of careers in engineering and aerospace.

April 5, 1990 was a defining moment within the aerospace industry as Orbital ATK’s Pegasus air-launched rocket ignited on its maiden mission as the world’s first privately developed space launch vehicle.  On that day, 25 years ago, the Pegasus winged...

The U.S. Army has awarded Orbital ATK a $120 million contract for additional production of the Precision Guidance Kit (PGK) for 155mm artillery. Once fielded to the warfighter, PGK will transform conventional 155mm artillery projectiles into a near ...

To celebrate the listing of Orbital ATK shares on the New York Stock Exchange, Orbital ATK President and CEO David Thompson and members of the company's leadership team had the privilege of ringing the closing bell on Friday, March 20. A replay of the ...

In a journey that began at the Orbital ATK Satellite Manufacturing Facility in Virginia, NASA’s Dawn spacecraft is now in orbit around the dwarf planet Ceres. As the spacecraft enters its eighth year of a nine-year-long mission, Dawn has already ...

A large crowd comprised of media, industry, space enthusiasts and the general public gathered on March 11 at Orbital ATK’s test facility in Promontory, Utah, to witness the first qualification ground test of the five-segment rocket motor that will be...

The Dawn spacecraft is a few weeks away from being captured into orbit around Ceres, the largest object in the main asteroid belt, located between Mars and Jupiter. As the spacecraft inches nearer, its latest images of the dwarf planet show that it is ...

NASA's Dawn spacecraft, designed and built by Orbital ATK, has returned the sharpest images yet of the surface of dwarf planet Ceres, revealing that the planetary body's bright spot has a similar companion bright area. So far, these unusual areas ...