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Launch vehicle capacity: medium-lift.
Antares is a medium-lift launch vehicle designed to deliver payloads to the International Space Station. It is single-piece, with a 3.9-m diameter body comprising two tandem stages.
The first stage of Antares is liquid-propellant, burning RP-1 kerosene (fuel) and liquid oxygen (oxidizer).
The second stage uses a Castor-30XL solid-propellant rocket motor.
Basic Performance
| Stages | 2 |
| Dimensions, mm | |
| Length, mm | 42519 |
| Fairing diameter, mm | 3900 |
| LV liftoff mass (without payload), t | 329,5 |
| Propellants | |
| Oxidizer | |
| 1st stage | LOX |
| Fuel | |
| 1st stage | kerosene |
| 2nd stage | solid propellant (НТРВ) |
| LV engines: | |
| 1st stage | 2хRD 181 |
| 2nd stage | Castor-30 XL |
| Stage ground / vacuum thrust, tf | |
| 1st stage | 425,2 |
| 2nd stage | 48,7 |
| Payload mass, kg | 7000 |
ANTARES PAYLOAD CAPABILITIES
PAYLOAD ACCOMMODATION AND FAIRING DIMENSIONS
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