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Antares 130

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Antares 130

Orbital Sciences Corporation · Antares · RETIRED

Photograph: NASA/Joel Kowsky · NASA Image and Media Guidelines · licence

Antares 130 is an expendable launch vehicle built by Orbital Sciences Corporation. It stands 41.9 m tall, lifts 5,100 kg to low Earth orbit, first flew on 28 October 2014. It has flown 1 times with 0 successes, a success rate of 0.0%. It has nothing on the Launch Library 2 schedule right now.

Specification

Vehicle spec sheet

ON FILE
Height41.9 m
Diameter3.9 m
Payload to LEO5,100 kg
Payload to GTONOT ON FILE
Maiden flight28 October 2014
ReusableNo, expendable
Launch costNOT ON FILE
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 flights1
Successful0
Failed1
Success rate0.0%
Landing attempts0
Landing successN/A
Scheduled0
Variant130

About Antares 130

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 130 is retired, and no flight is filed.

All upcoming launches

Antares 130 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 130 flown?
1 times, with 0 successes and 1 failures.
What is Antares 130's success rate?
0.0%. That's 0 successful flights out of 1 attempts.
How much can Antares 130 lift to orbit?
Launch Library 2 lists Antares 130 at 5,100 kg to low Earth orbit.
Is Antares 130 reusable?
No. Launch Library 2 lists Antares 130 as expendable, so no stage is recovered to fly again.