Antares
Yuzhnoye Design Bureau
The Antares is a medium-lift class two-stage launch vehicle developed through collaboration between Orbital Sciences Corporation (now Northrop Grumman) and Ukraine’s Yuzhnoye State Design Office. Yuzhnoye designed and co-developed the first stage airframe structure, with Ukrainian partners including Yuzhmash Machine Building Plant, Hartron-Arkos, Hartron-Ucom, Chezara, Rapid, and Kievprylad contributing propellant tanks, pressurization tanks, valves, sensors, […]
Key figurescomparable across the catalogue
- Payload capacity
- 8,100 kg
Normalised to common units so this product can be compared with others in its category. The supplier's own wording is below.
As published by the supplier
- Vehicle Class
- Medium-lift
- Number of Stages
- 2
- Height
- 42,500 mm
- Body Diameter
- 3,900 mm
- Gross Mass (without payload)
- 330 t
- Payload to 200 km x 300 km, 51.6 deg
- 8.1 t
- Stage 1 Engines
- 2 x RD-181
- Stage 1 Propellant
- LOX + kerosene
- Stage 1 Thrust (sea level)
- 392 tf
- Stage 2 Engine
- Castor-30XL
- Stage 2 Propellant
- HTPB (solid)
- Stage 2 Thrust (vacuum)
- 48.7 tf
About
The Antares is a medium-lift class two-stage launch vehicle developed through collaboration between Orbital Sciences Corporation (now Northrop Grumman) and Ukraine’s Yuzhnoye State Design Office. Yuzhnoye designed and co-developed the first stage airframe structure, with Ukrainian partners including Yuzhmash Machine Building Plant, Hartron-Arkos, Hartron-Ucom, Chezara, Rapid, and Kievprylad contributing propellant tanks, pressurization tanks, valves, sensors, feed lines, tubing, and wiring. Antares was developed specifically to deliver payloads to the International Space Station via Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus cargo spacecraft. It stands 42.5 meters tall with a 3.9-meter diameter. The second stage uses a solid HTPB propellant Castor-30XL engine. Antares has flown numerous successful ISS resupply missions.
Documentation
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