A medium-lift American launch vehicle developed to carry Cygnus cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station under NASA's Commercial Resupply Services program. Its early variants used refurbished Soviet-era NK-33 engines before switching to Russian RD-181 engines, a dependency later broken by a redesign built with Firefly Aerospace after 2022.
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Vehicle ClassMedium-lift expendable cargo launch vehicle 1 Manufacturer First Flight Date StatusOperational, launching Cygnus resupply missions to the International Space Station. 1 Connections
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Antares (rocket) (Wikipedia)
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Antares (), known during early development as Taurus II, is an American expendable medium-lift launch vehicle developed by Orbital Sciences Corporation with financial support from NASA under the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program awarded in February 2008.
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Antares (), known during early development as Taurus II, is an American expendable medium-lift launch vehicle developed by Orbital Sciences Corporation with financial support from NASA under the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program awarded in February 2008.
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