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Antares 120

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Antares 120

Orbital Sciences Corporation · Antares · RETIRED

Photograph: NASA/Bill Ingalls · NASA Image and Media Guidelines · licence

Antares 120 is an expendable launch vehicle built by Orbital Sciences Corporation. It stands 40.5 m tall, lifts 4,600 kg to low Earth orbit, first flew on 9 January 2014. It has flown 2 times with 2 successes, a success rate of 100.0%. It has nothing on the Launch Library 2 schedule right now.

Specification

Vehicle spec sheet

ON FILE
Height40.5 m
Diameter3.9 m
Payload to LEO4,600 kg
Payload to GTONOT ON FILE
Maiden flight9 January 2014
ReusableNo, expendable
Launch cost$80M
StatusRETIRED

As listed by Launch Library 2. The cost is Launch Library’s figure, not a quoted price. Figures for rockets outside the sixty most-flown were last read on 2026-11-05.

Flight record

Reliability

ON RECORD
Total flights2
Successful2
Failed0
Success rate100.0%
Landing attempts0
Landing successN/A
Scheduled0
Variant120

About Antares 120

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.

Upcoming flights

Manifest

EMPTY

Antares 120 is retired, and no flight is filed.

All upcoming launches

Antares 120 in the archive

From NASA's public image library and Wikimedia Commons. Each photo shows the credit its licence asks for and links back to where it came from.

Antares 110 rocket for A-ONE mission
Antares 110 rocket for A-ONE missionNASA (per [1] ) · public domainWikimedia Commons ↗
First Antares rocket on Launch Pad 0A of the Wallops Flight Facility
First Antares rocket on Launch Pad 0A of the Wallops Flight FacilityBill Ingalls · public domainWikimedia Commons ↗
Antares Rocket Test Launch
Antares Rocket Test LaunchBill Ingalls · public domainWikimedia Commons ↗

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Common questions

How many times has Antares 120 flown?
2 times, with 2 successes and 0 failures.
What is Antares 120's success rate?
100.0%. That's 2 successful flights out of 2 attempts.
How much can Antares 120 lift to orbit?
Launch Library 2 lists Antares 120 at 4,600 kg to low Earth orbit.
Is Antares 120 reusable?
No. Launch Library 2 lists Antares 120 as expendable, so no stage is recovered to fly again.