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Antares (/ æ n ˈ t ɑː r iː z /), known during early development as Taurus II, is an American expendable medium-lift launch vehicle developed and built by Orbital Sciences Corporation (later Orbital ATK and Northrop Grumman) with financial support from NASA under the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program awarded in February 2008, alongside the company's automated cargo ...
Able to launch payloads heavier than 8,000 kg (18,000 lb) into low Earth orbit, Antares is the largest rocket operated by Northrop Grumman. Antares launches from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport and made its inaugural flight on April 21, 2013. [12] Antares 100 was retired in 2014 and series 200 was retired in 2023 due to component ...
Cygnus Orb-3 spacecraft integrated with Antares rocket. This would have been the third of eight flights by Orbital Sciences under the Commercial Resupply Services (CRS-1) contract with NASA . This was the first attempted flight of the Antares 130 , which uses a more powerful Castor 30XL second stage, and the last flight of the standard-sized ...
Together, the two companies are building a new version of Northrop's Antares rocket (outfitted with Firefly engines), and also an entirely new rocket called the MLV. Neither new rocket is expected ...
Investigators believe they know what caused the massive failure and explosion of the Antares rocket just seconds after it lifted off a Virginia launch pad. The CEO of Orbital Sciences spoke with ...
Space launch firm Orbital Sciences says it has successfully conducted an extended-duration "hot fire" test of the first-stage propulsion system of its Antares medium-lift rocket. Antares is ...
Antares A-ONE mission was the maiden flight of Orbital Sciences Corporation' Antares launch vehicle including the ascent to space and accurate delivery of a simulated payload, the Cygnus Mass Simulator (CMS), which was launched 21 April 2013. [6]
The launch agreement with SpaceX coincides with Northrop climbing out of a months-long predicament with its workhorse Antares rocket, whose Russian-made engines were cut off from the United States ...