The Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport is a commercial space launch facility located at the southern tip of NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island in Virginia, just east of the Delmarva Peninsu
The Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport and, in the background, NASA's Wallops Flight Facility as seen in September 2012.
The first Antares rocket on Launch Pad 0A. At left is a water tower to supply water for sound suppression.
Antares 110 on pad (Antares A-One), 2013
Antares 120 on pad (CRS Orb-1), 2014
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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
Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport
…Services (COTS) program and then selected Orbital for a follow-on Commercial Resupply Service (CRS) contract to build and demonstrate a new rocket, Antares, to resupply the International Space Station (ISS). The CRS contract authorized eight missions from 2012 to 2015 carrying approximately 20,000 kg of…
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