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Antares Orb-3 launch failure montage. Matthew Travis, Alex Polimeni, Elliott Severn, Ken Kremer and our colleague Charles Twine. Contributing to Zero-G News (ZeroGNews.com), AmericaSpace (AmericaSpace.com), Universe Today (UniverseToday.com) with the much-appreciated support from Jeff Seibert as well as Mike Barrett from Wired4Space (wired4space.com).
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Inferno Over Wallops! A first-hand Photo And Video Account Of Antares Launch Failure

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Read the story with a full page of launch pad remote camera photos and video! Last month, Zero-G News had the opportunity to travel to Wallops Flight Facility, VA in order to cover the anticipated launch of an Orbital Sciences Corporation Antares rocket to deliver the Cygnus Orb-3 spacecraft on a cargo resupply run to […]

Antares explodes. Photo Credit: Matthew Travis
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Antares Explodes, ISS Cargo Lost In Launch Failure

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Launch of the Cygnus spacecraft was supposed to be the start of the third of Orbital Science Corporation’s eight NASA-contracted resupply missions to the International Space Station. Instead, Orbital and NASA are left picking up this pieces today after the company’s Antares rocket erupted into a roiling ball of fire after liftoff that consumed the […]