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Launch of Orbital's ATK Rocket Set for Late Sept.

NASA

Wallops Island Flight Facility officials will make another attempt at liftoff for the Orbital ATK’s rocket in late September.

Its launch has been delayed twice now having been scheduled for Spring and then the Summer.

The Salisbury Daily Times reports that the program has been delayed ever since the October explosion in 2014 on the Wallops launch pad.

That mission was to carry supplies to the International Space Station in the Cygnus spacecraft.

The Daily Times reports that engineers are still looking into the outcome a test fire back in May.

The company has completed four out of five flights.

The explosion resulted in $15 million in damages to the Wallops Flight facility.

No one was injured.

Don Rush is the News Director and Senior Producer of News and Public Affairs at Delmarva Public Media. An award-winning journalist, Don reports major local issues of the day, from sea level rise, to urban development, to the changing demographics of Delmarva.