“Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph Grenny, “have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight. NASA coverage begins at noon.Ībout a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”: Of course, if you're not on the East Coast (or it's cloudy), you can watch Sunday's Antares launch online at NASA's TV channel. The second stage is powered by a solid-fuel motor built by the company that produced the solid-fuel boosters for the space shuttle. The company turned to Ukraine's Yuzhnoye Design Bureau to help with the tanks, pumps, and plumbing needed to support Antares's two liquid-fuel motors – themselves built in the former Soviet Union but modified for Antares by a US rocket-motor company.

Orbital Sciences, on the other hand, has built its Antares rocket largely from hardware that already has been space tested, explains Lennard Fisk, a professor of space science at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and a member of Orbital Sciences' board of directors.

SpaceX has prided itself on designing and building its hardware in-house.' Their approaches to designing and building their rockets are markedly different. By signing up, you agree to our Privacy Policy.Īlready a subscriber? Log in to hide ads.Īs The Christian Science Monitor reported 'Orbital Sciences has been building satellites and building and launching rockets for more than 30 years.

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