Contractor NASA Orbital company plans to launch an improved modification of the Antares rocket in the first quarter of 2016 year. Earlier booster Antares exploded at the start on kosmondrome Vallops Virginia.
In October booster Antares was supposed to deliver a space truck Cygnus with two tons of cargo to the ISS. cause of the accident has not been officially announced, but according to experts the accident could be caused by problems in the engine AJ-26. Has not yet said what engines will be used in an improved modification.
“The company confirmed its ability to accelerate the introduction of new primary propulsion systems for missiles Antares and plans to launch three more (in the mission to deliver goods to the ISS ) in the first, second and fourth quarter of 2016 with an improved apparatus “- quoted by RIA Novosti statement Orbital.
The assembly and testing can begin as early as mid-2015. Antares is a new modification to the orbit all the heavier vehicles, so each flight will deliver Cygnus truck to the ISS on 20% more cargo, according to the company.
Before Dni.Ru reported that many of the evidence supports the fact that the collapse of Antares, to head the International Space Station, was the fault of Ukrainian producers of the first launch vehicle. Within six seconds after the start of the rocket exploded and turned into a fireball. Burning debris fell directly on the pad, almost destroying her.
Many experts believe that because the rocket exploded shortly after launch, the most “vulnerabilities” in this case – it is the first stage of the rocket motors and systems management. In the first stage Antares – there are two oxygen-kerosene rocket engine AJ-26. This is a modified NK-33, which were created for the Soviet lunar program, which are modified for current operations at the Ukrainian enterprises – “Southern” – in Dnepropetrovsk.
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