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    the Antares 100 series used refurbished NK-33 engines, remnants of the Soviet N1 moon rocket. However, after a catastrophic explosion, the Antares 200...
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    company's Antares rocket from the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, however it is able to fly on other launch vehicles. After the failure of an Antares rocket...
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    NK-33 (category Antares (rocket family))
    later, they found new life powering the first stage of the American Antares 100 rocket and the Russian Soyuz-2.1v. Once the supply of NK-33 engines is exhausted...
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    the break in Antares manufacturing caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. But in addition to salvaging the Antares rocket series, the...
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    International Space Station and the fifth of an Antares launch vehicle, resulted in the Antares rocket exploding seconds after liftoff. This would have...
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  • Observatory, in Brazil Antares (rocket), an American space launch system Antarès (OPd-56-39-22D), a French experimental rocket Antares 20E, a motor glider...
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    Cygnus NG-20 (category Spacecraft launched by Falcon rockets)
    spacecraft after Northrop Grumman exhausted the supply of its Antares 230+ rocket. The Antares used a Russian-built engine and Ukrainian-built first stage...
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    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...
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  • rocket engine currently being developed to power the company’s MLV (Medium Launch Vehicle). The Miranda will also be used on the Antares 330 rocket developed...
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    named the RD-151) and the Russian Angara rocket. The RD-181, based on the RD-191, is used on the Antares rocket. In August 2016, Roscosmos announced conceptual...
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    CRS certification requirements. Orbital Sciences first launched the Antares rocket from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on 21 April 2013 with a test...
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  • Orbital ATK (category Rocket engine manufacturers of the United States)
    Castor 30, solid rocket used on the Antares rocket Castor 120, solid rocket used on the Minotaur-C rocket Space Launch System Solid Rocket Booster, based...
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  • KB Pivdenne (category Antares (rocket family))
    2010–2020 Oleksandr Dehtiariov [uk] Hrim-2 Zenit rocket family Zenit-2 Zenit-2M Zenit-3F Zenit-3SL Zenit-3SLB Antares first stage core, in cooperation with Orbital...
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    The Antarès (OPd-56-39-22D) was a French multistage rocket designed by ONERA for reentry studies. In the late 1950s, the study of missile warhead reentry...
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    upgraded to support the new Antares 330 rocket, which will have approximately twice the thrust as its predecessor, Antares 230+. The pad and transporter...
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    RD-191 (category Rocket engines of the Soviet Union)
    carrier rocket. In the same month, Orbital Sciences announced it would purchase RD-181 engines, a variant of the RD-191, for use on the Antares rocket. A version...
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    List of Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches (category Lists of rocket launches)
    January 2024. Retrieved 30 January 2024. "Northrop taps rocket startup Firefly to replace Antares' Russian engines". Reuters. 8 August 2022. Archived from...
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    launch site (Eastern Daylight Time). Antares A-ONE Cygnus mass simulator Integrated Antares rocket Launch of A-ONE Antares in flight Dragon Spacecraft Qualification...
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    The Antares (rocket) made its maiden flight lifting a payload mass simulator to low Earth orbit (LEO) on 21 April 2013. On 18 September 2013, Antares successfully...
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  • Kuznetsov Design Bureau (category Rocket engine manufacturers of Russia)
    AJ-26) are used in the first stage of the Antares rocket developed by Orbital Sciences Corporation. The Antares rocket was successfully launched from NASA's...
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  • satellite, Arkyd 3, was destroyed on October 28, 2014, after an Antares resupply rocket exploded seconds after launch. In May 2016, the company announced...
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    solid-propellant rocket or solid rocket is a rocket with a rocket engine that uses solid propellants (fuel/oxidizer). The earliest rockets were solid-fuel rockets powered...
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    JSC Kuznetsov (category Rocket engine manufacturers of Russia)
    AJ-26) are used in the first stage of the Antares rocket developed by Orbital Sciences Corporation. The Antares rocket was successfully launched from NASA's...
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    PA Pivdenmash (category Rocket engine manufacturers of Ukraine)
    November 2022. "Northrop Grumman Teams with Firefly Aerospace to Develop Antares Rocket Upgrade and New Medium Launch Vehicle". Northrop Grumman Newsroom. Retrieved...
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    that will roll out and erect the rocket on its launch pad about 24 hours prior to launch. The first launch of Antares occurred on April 21, 2013. The pad...
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    its Castor 30XL motor, which is used in the second stage of Orbital's Antares rocket. ATK further noted that the explosion occurred before ignition of the...
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  • locomotive Taurus II space launch vehicle, the former name of the American Antares rocket launch vehicle Ford Police Interceptor Sedan, police version of the...
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    Cygnus NG-21 (category Spacecraft launched by Falcon rockets)
    spacecraft after Northrop Grumman exhausted the supply of its Antares 230+ rocket. The Antares used a Russian-built engine and Ukrainian-built first stage...
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    and Dove 2, in April 2013. Both Dove 1 (aboard Antares 110 rocket) and Dove 2 (aboard a Soyuz Rocket) were placed in a Sun-synchronous orbit. Dove 3...
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    Vol. 1. NASA. Retrieved 17 September 2024. Gohd, Chelsea (2020). "Antares rocket launches new astronaut toilet and more to space station for NASA". Space...
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