Orbital ATK Will Try to Launch Antares Rocket Tonight: Watch It Live

The commercial spaceflight company Orbital ATK is once again counting down to the launch an Antares rocket from Virginia's Eastern Shore tonight (Oct. 17). The Antares rocket is slated to launch an unmanned Cygnus cargo ship toward the International Space Station (ISS) at 7:40 p.m. EDT (2340 GMT) from Pad-0A at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility here on Wallops Island. A launch attempt on Sunday was scrubbed due to a glitch in a ground-support cable, but the Antares rocket itself and its C