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Orbital ATK on the Rebound With Antares Return to Flight in 2016
Two RD-181 integrated with the Orbital ATK Antares first stage air frame at the Wallops Island, Virginia Horizontal Integration Facility (HIF). Return to flight launch is expected sometime during Spring 2016. Credit: NASA/ Terry Zaperach
Orbital ATK is on the rebound with return to flight of their Antares rocket slated in early 2016 following the catastrophic launch failure that doomed the last Antares in October 2014 on a resupply mission for NASA to the International Space Station (ISS).
Engineers are making “excellent progress” assembling a modified version of Antares that is currently on track to blast off as soon as (…)
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Post tags: Antares rocket, Antares rocket explosion, Atlas V rocket, cape canaveral, Cygnus, Cygnus cargo vessel, international space station, International Space Station (ISS), ISS, NASA, NASA Wallops, OA-4, Orb-3, Orbital ATK, ULA
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