List of Antares launches
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Antares (rocket), known during its early stages of development as Taurus 2, is a expendable that was created by the Orbital Sciences Corporation and the Yuzhnoye Design Bureau to launch the Cygnus spacecraft to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s COTS and CRS programs. They are now part of Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems after acquiring Orbital ATK. Antares launches from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport.
Antares first launched on April 21, 2013. The Antares has launched 14 times, with 1 failure and 13 success.
Launch statistics
Rocket configurations
Launch outcomes
- Failure
- Partial failure
- Success
- Scheduled
Launch contractor
Launch history
Flight No. | Date / time (UTC) | Rocket variant | Launch site | Payload, Spacecraft name |
Payload mass | Orbit | Launch contractor | User | Launch outcome |
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1 | April 21, 2013 21:00 |
Antares 110 | MARS pad 0A | Low Earth | Orbital Sciences Corporation | NASA | Success | ||
Antares A-ONE, Antares test flight, using a Castor 30A second stage and no third stage.[1][2] | |||||||||
2 | September 18, 2013 14:58 |
Antares 110 | MARS pad 0A | Cygnus (standard) Orb-D1 G. David Low[3] |
700 kg (1,543 lb)[4] |
Low Earth (ISS) | Orbital Sciences Corporation | NASA | Success |
Orbital Sciences COTS demonstration flight. First Antares mission with a real Cygnus capsule, first mission to rendezvous and berth with the International Space Station, second launch of Antares. The rendezvous maneuver was delayed due to a computer data link problem,[5] but the issue was resolved and berthing followed shortly thereafter.[6][7] | |||||||||
3 | January 9, 2014 18:07 |
Antares 120 | MARS pad 0A | Cygnus (standard) CRS Orb-1 C. Gordon Fullerton[3] |
1,260 kg (2,780 lb)[8] |
Low Earth (ISS) | Orbital Sciences Corporation | NASA | Success |
First Commercial Resupply Service (CRS) mission for Cygnus, and first Antares launch using the Castor 30B upper stage.[9][10] | |||||||||
4 | July 13, 2014 16:52 |
Antares 120 | MARS pad 0A | Cygnus (standard) CRS Orb-2 Janice Voss[11] |
1,494 kg (3,293 lb)[12] |
Low Earth (ISS) | Orbital Sciences Corporation | NASA | Success |
Spacecraft carried supplies for the ISS, including research equipment, crew provisions, hardware, and science experiments.[13] | |||||||||
5 | October 28, 2014 22:22 |
Antares 130 | MARS pad 0A | Cygnus (standard) CRS Orb-3 Deke Slayton[14] |
2,215 kg (4,883 lb)[15] |
Low Earth (ISS) | Orbital Sciences Corporation | NASA | Failure |
LOX turbopump failure T+6 seconds. Rocket fell back onto the pad and exploded.[16][17][18] First Antares launch to use Castor 30XL upper stage. In addition to ISS supplies, payload included a Planetary Resources Arkyd-3 satellite[19] and a NASA JPL/UT Austin CubeSat mission named RACE.[20] | |||||||||
6 | October 17, 2016 23:45 |
Antares 230 | MARS pad 0A | Cygnus (enhanced) CRS OA-5 Alan G. Poindexter[21] |
2,425 kg (5,346 lb)[22] |
Low Earth (ISS) | Orbital ATK | NASA | Success |
First launch of Enhanced Cygnus on Orbital's new Antares 230.[23][24][25][26] | |||||||||
7 | November 12, 2017 12:19 |
Antares 230 | MARS pad 0A | Cygnus (enhanced) CRS OA-8E Gene Cernan[27] |
3,338 kg (7,359 lb)[28] |
Low Earth (ISS) | Orbital ATK | NASA | Success |
8 | May 21, 2018 08:44 |
Antares 230 | MARS pad 0A | Cygnus (enhanced) CRS OA-9E J.R. Thompson[29] |
3,350 kg (7,386 lb)[30] |
Low Earth (ISS) | Orbital ATK | NASA | Success |
Spacecraft carried ISS hardware, crew supplies, and scientific payloads, including the Cold Atom Lab and the Biomolecule Extraction and Sequencing Technology experiment.[30] The Cygnus also demonstrated boosting the station's orbital velocity for the first time, by 0.06 meter per second.[31] | |||||||||
9 | November 17, 2018 09:01 |
Antares 230 | MARS pad 0A | Cygnus (enhanced) CRS NG-10 John Young |
3,416 kg (7,531 lb) |
Low Earth (ISS) | NGIS | NASA | Success |
Largest number of satellites launched on a single rocket (108). Cygnus NG-10, CHEFsat 2, Kicksat 2, 104 Sprite Chipsats (deployed from Kicksat 2), MYSAT 1. | |||||||||
10 | April 17, 2019 20:46 |
Antares 230 | MARS pad 0A | Cygnus (enhanced) CRS NG-11 Roger Chaffee[32] |
3,447 kg (7,600 lbs) | Low Earth (ISS) | NGIS | NASA | Success |
Launched the last mission under the Commercial Resupply Services-1 for Cygnus.[32] | |||||||||
11 | November 2, 2019 13:59 |
Antares 230+ | MARS pad 0A | Cygnus (enhanced) CRS NG-12 Alan Bean[33] |
3,728 kg (8,221 lbs) | Low Earth (ISS) | NGIS | NASA | Success |
Cygnus NG-12 is the first mission under the NASA Commercial Resupply Services-2 contract. NG-12 is also the first to use upgraded launcher, Antares 230+. | |||||||||
12 | February 15, 2020 20:21 |
Antares 230+ | MARS pad 0A | Cygnus (enhanced) CRS NG-13 Robert Lawrence, Jr. |
3,377 kg (7,445 lbs) | Low Earth (ISS) | NGIS | NASA | Success |
13 | October 3, 2020 01:16 |
Antares 230+ | MARS pad 0A | Cygnus (enhanced) CRS NG-14 Kalpana Chawla |
3,458 kg (7,624 lbs)[34] | Low Earth (ISS) | NGIS | NASA | Success |
Spacecraft carried ISS hardware, crew supplies, and scientific payloads, including a new toilet (Universal Waste Management System, UWMS), Ammonia Electrooxidation, radishes for Plant Habitat-02, drugs for targeted cancer treatments with Onco-Selectors, and a customized 360-degree camera to capture future spacewalks.[35][34] | |||||||||
14 | February 20, 2021 17:36 |
Antares 230+ | MARS pad 0A | Cygnus (enhanced) CRS NG-15 Katherine Johnson |
3,810 kg (8399 lbs)[36] | Low Earth (ISS) | NGIS | NASA | Success |
This mission carried over 8,000 pounds of cargo including roundworms to study muscle loss and the Spaceborne Computer 2, as well as an experiment to study the protein-based manufacturing of artificial retinas.[37] |
Note: Cygnus CRS OA-4, the first Enhanced Cygnus mission, and Cygnus OA-6 were propelled by Atlas V 401 launch vehicles while the new Antares 230 was in its final stages of development. Cygnus CRS OA-7 was also switched to an Atlas V 401 and launched on April 18, 2017
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