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One Year after Antares Failure, Orbital ATK Revamps Rocket for 2016 ‘Return to Flight’
Base of Orbital Sciences Antares rocket explodes moments after blastoff from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility, VA, on Oct. 28, 2014, at 6:22 p.m. Credit: Ken Kremer – kenkremer.com
One year after the catastrophic launch failure of Orbital ATK’s private Antares rocket seconds after liftoff with the Cygnus cargo freighter bound for the International Space Station (ISS), the firm is well on the way towards revamping the booster with modern new engines and implementing a ‘Return or Flight’ by approximately mid-2016, company officials told Universe Today.
Some 15 seconds after blastoff of the firms Antares/Cygnus rocket on October 28, 2014 on the Orb-3 resupply mission for NASA to the space station, the flight rapidly devolved into total disaster when one of the rockets first stage AJ26 engines suddenly blew up without warning after liftoff from NASA Wallops Island facility along the Eastern shore of Virginia at 6:22 p.m. ET.
After evaluating the causes of the Orb-3 disaster, the top management of (…)
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Post tags: AJ26 engine, antares explosion, antares launch failure, Antares rocket, commercial cargo, commercial resupply services (CRS), CRS, Cygnus cargo vessel, International Space Station (ISS), ISS, NASA, NASA Wallops, NK-33, Orb-3, Orbital ATK
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Source: http://www.universetoday.com/123095/one-year-after-antares-failure-orbital-atk-revamps-rocket-for-2016-return-to-flight/
