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Orbital ATK Aims for March 2016 Antares Rocket Launch Restart with New Engines
Orbital Sciences Corporation Antares rocket and Cygnus spacecraft blasts off on July 13 2014 from Launch Pad 0A at NASA Wallops Flight Facility , VA, on the Orb-2 mission and loaded with over 3000 pounds of science experiments and supplies for the crew aboard the International Space Station. Credit: Ken Kremer – kenkremer.com
The newly merged company Orbital ATK is aiming to restart launches of their “upgraded Antares” rocket in March 2016 using completely new engines, following the catastrophic explosion on Oct. 28, 2014 that destroyed the rocket seconds after blastoff from a Virginia launch pad. Antares was carrying a Cygnus module loaded with supplies on a critical space station resupply mission for NASA.
The March 2016 launch date of Antares from the Wallops Island base along Virginia’s eastern shore was announced by David Thompson, Orbital ATK,(…)
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Post tags: Antares, Antares rocket explosion, Atlas V rocket, cargo resupply, commercial resupply services (CRS), CRS, Cygnus cargo vessel, ISS, NASA, NASA Wallops, Orbital ATK, Orbital Sciences Corporation
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Source: http://www.universetoday.com/116339/orbital-atk-aims-for-march-2016-antares-rocket-launch-restart-with-new-engines/
