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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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    NK-33 (category Antares (rocket family))
    although those engines are rebranded the AJ-26 and the newer Antares 200 and Antares 200+ rocket series uses the RD-181 for the first stage engines, which...
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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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    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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    Services (CRS) program. It is usually launched by Northrop Grumman's Antares rocket from the Wallops Flight Facility, although three flights were on ULA's...
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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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    eight Cygnus flights, covering deliveries to 2016. The Falcon 9 and Antares rockets were also developed under the CRS program to deliver cargo spacecraft...
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    Cygnus Mass Simulator separates Antares A-ONE Cygnus mass simulator Integrated Antares rocket Launch of A-ONE Antares in flight Dragon Spacecraft Qualification...
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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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    Cygnus NG-21 (category Spacecraft launched by Antares rockets)
    the exhaustion of the supply of Antares rockets, due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, losing both the Russian rocket engine supplier and the Ukrainian...
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  • Australia ANTARES (telescope), in the Mediterranean Antares Astronomical Observatory, in Brazil Antares (rocket), a space launch system Antares 20E, a motor...
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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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    company announced testing was occurring on the Antares 300. Firefly Gamma was a concept of a winged rocket to launch small payloads into orbit. It would...
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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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  • concrete pours. Some rockets like the Antares (rocket), the Falcon 9 and the Falcon Heavy use a strongback to restrain the rocket prior to launch. This...
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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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  • 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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    Cygnus NG-20 (category Spacecraft launched by Antares rockets)
    the exhaustion of the supply of Antares rockets, due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, losing both the Russian rocket engine supplier and the Ukrainian...
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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 OA-9E (category Spacecraft launched by Antares rockets)
    multiple management positions at Orbital, overseeing development of the Antares rocket and other vehicles in the company's launcher family. NASA contracted...
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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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  • Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems (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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  • 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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    sounding rocket which was flown twice in 1962. It was a four-stage rocket, based on the earlier Scout X-1, introducing the Algol 1D and Antares IIB stage...
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    trajectory. As the spacecraft descended towards Earth, a solid-fuel Antares II rocket positioned behind the payload ignited for 30 seconds, elevating the...
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  • air-launched orbital rocket, which was under development in 2012–2015. The design was "shelved" by Stratolaunch in May 2015. Antares - Antares is a two-stage...
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    Antares (rocket) made its maiden flight lifting a payload mass simulator to low Earth orbit (LEO) on April 21, 2013. On September 18, 2013, Antares successfully...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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