antares

The Antares flight used refurb-Russian engines, and Antares could not be used for manned flight anyways.

However for now, the Antares is the biggest Orbital rocket, and it's designed with NK-33.

I imagine the Antares launch explosion has something to do with it, since the Antares was using a refurbished Russian engine as the base stage.

That was Orbital Sciences with their Antares rocket, which uses refurbished Soviet-era Kuznetsov NK-33 engines (1960ies to -70ies).

Even if Antares was flying great, the US would still depend on Russia for rides to the ISS.

And Antares is the first rocket where those engines have flied - though not the only one rocket already.

Compare it to the Antares [1], which exploded just a few seconds after launch.

Take the very recent Antares launch failure and Virgin Galactic's tragic crash.

So we might expect a escape rocket to cost Antares almost half of its payload capacity.

Were actually never flown before the first Antares lifted off.

There was reason why he said Antares was junk.

SpaceX still looks better than its direct competition, Orbital ATK: Antares CRS-3 turbopump failure, vehicle FTS was activated and launch vehicle impacted very close to the launch pad.

Like the sort used on Antares?" I think Paul McCartney was about 23 years old when the engines powering that Antares launch vehicle were fabricated in Russia in their race against the Americans to the moon.

Especially after F9R-Dev, an Antares, and SS2 all RUD'd in the past couple months.

Antares Orb-1 in January 2014 is recorded as carrying 34 spacecraft.

Antares has a maximum payload of 6000kg.