Antares 120 – Orbital Sciences Corporation

• Family: Antares
• Length: 40.5 m
• Diameter: 3.9 m
• Launch Mass: 276 T
• Low Earth Orbit Capacity: 4600 kg

The Antares 120, manufactured by Orbital Sciences Corporation established in unknown year, undertook its inaugural launch on 01/09/2014. Notably, Antares 120 has 2 successful launches and 0 failed attempts, with a cumulative tally of 2 launches, currently with 0 pending launches in the pipeline.

Antares known during early development as Taurus II, is an expendable launch system developed by Orbital Sciences Corporation (now part of Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems after Northrop Grumman acquired Orbital ATK) and the Yuzhnoye Design Bureau to launch the Cygnus spacecraft to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s COTS and CRS programs. Able to launch payloads heavier than 5,000 kg (11,000 lb) into low-Earth orbit, Antares is the largest rocket operated by Orbital ATK. Antares launches from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport and made its inaugural flight on April 21, 2013.