Antares known during early development as Taurus II, is an expendable launch system developed by Orbital Sciences Corporation to launch the Cygnus spacecraft to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s COTS and CRS programs.On October 28, 2014, the first stage of an Antares rocket carrying a Cygnus cargo spacecraft on the Orb-3 resupply mission failed catastrophically six seconds after liftoff from Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia.
NASA has released the images of the incident.
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