Does anyone actually want to win the medium-lift race in the United States?
It has been 13 years since the debut of a new medium-lift rocket in the United States, the Antares vehicle developed by Orbital Sciences Corporation.
Ars Technica reports that it has been 13 years since the debut of a new medium-lift rocket in the United States, the Antares vehicle developed by Orbital Sciences Corporation.
The initial 100-series variant of the Antares rocket was kind of a hot mess. The rocket used old Soviet engines built during the era when Apollo astronauts were landing on the Moon.
This science story centres on the United States. Names and organisations mentioned in the coverage include Antares, Orbital Sciences Corporation and Soviet.
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- Decades later, in the 1990s, Aerojet acquired the engines and refurbished them for a rocket that would launch in the 2010s. (Ars Technica)
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