Last night, NanoRacks successfully completed the Company’s sixth CubeSat deployment mission from Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus spacecraft. Cygnus (S.S. John Young) departed the International Space Station ...

Expendable resupply vehicles are on their way out as orbital garbage trucks, suggests a recent test involving a new airlock and a big bag of trash. Reading time 2 minutes Private space company ...

Houston-based commercial space company Nanoracks hoped its airlock on the International Space Station would open at least six times a year, becoming a door to push satellites into Earth’s orbit and to ...

The Nanoracks Bishop Airlock is pictured in the grips of the Canadarm2 robotic arm as it is positioned away from the International Space Station. The commercial platform was being maneuvered prior to ...

HOUSTON—Nanoracks logged five CubeSat deployments from the International Space Station’s Japanese Kibo lab module on Jan. 31, concluding the Houston-based company’s 15th commercial launch campaign ...