Antares (rocket)
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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 Commerci
Launch of an Antares 230
An assembled Antares rocket in the Horizontal Integration Facility.
Rear view of Antares
Test firing of Castor 30 second stage
NK-33
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The NK-33 and its vacuum-optimized variant, the NK-43, were rocket engines developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s by the Kuznetsov Design Bureau for the Soviet space program's ill-fated N1 Moon r
Antares (rocket)
…was subcontracted for all versions of Antares. The 100 and 200 series were built by the Ukrainian companies Pivdenne and Pivdenmash, using refurbished NK-33 engines from the Soviet N1 program on the 100 series and newly built Russian RD-181 engines on the 200 series after the loss of an Antares 130 vehicle…
The Russian NK-33 was modified and renamed the AJ26-58 by Aerojet. This AJ26-58 is shown on the test stand at John C. Stennis Space Center.
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden (left) and Stennis Space Center Director Patrick Scheuermann view a test firing of the first Aerojet AJ26 engine.
An Antares 100 rocket being rolled out for testing, showing the two NK-33 engines
A Soyuz-2.1v rocket being rolled out to the launch pad, showing its single NK-33 engine