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The launch of redesigned Antares comes two years after the model exploded trying to reach ISS
Orbital ATK Inc., a private US company, has successfully launched an Antares rocket carrying supplies for the international space station.
The Antares rocket is topped with a Cygnus spacecraft carrying 2,300 kilograms of cargo for science experiments and supplies for the crew, according to NASA.
The unmanned mission comes nearly two years after Antares exploded seconds after the launch, destroying the company's Virginia facility.
While the precise reason was never determined, the failure was linked to Orbital's use of old Soviet technologies.
Since then the rocket has undergone a major redesign. Rocket's booster stage was manufactured by Ukraine's Yuznhoe Design Bureau, while its main engines were built in Russia.
Ukrainian rocket manufacturer Pivdenmash denies link to N. Korean nuclear program
The Ukrainian state-owned Pivdenmash (Yuzhmash) machine-building plant, Ukraine's leading rocket manufacturer located in the city of Dnipro, has denied allegations published by The New York Times that it may have covertly contributed to North Korea's missile program, describing the report as an attempt to discredit Pivdenmash and Ukraine.
"The speculation by the reports' authors and the 'expert' quoted by them concerning Ukraine's possible role in the DPRK's progress in developing its missile technology has nothing in common with reality: Pivdenmash has never had and does not have any relation to North Korea's space or defense rocket programs. As a state enterprise, Pivdenmash fully complies with the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR), in which Ukraine has participated since 1998," Pivdenmash said in an official statement shared with Interfax-Ukraine on Monday.
"Pivdenmash has not manufactured and is not manufacturing military missiles or missile systems in the years of [Ukraine's] independence. The only serial engine that has been exported in the past several years - the RD-843 shipped to Italy for the European launch vehicle Vega - is designed to operate in outer space, and its features, including its thrust, makes it unsuitable for use in military ballistic missiles," it said.
"The information presented in the report is not consistent with reality: in particular, not only is Pivdenmash not a primary producer of missiles for Russia, but it also does not supply Russia with any missiles or its components or elements, including rocket engines," it said.
Pivdenmash said that, while it regretted the report, "provocative in its nature and based on an incompetent expert opinion," it said that "the position of a number of Ukrainian media outlets is also disappointing, in that they allowed the circulation of fantasies discrediting Pivdenmash and Ukraine without attempts to verify this information directly with the enterprise."
The New York Times reported on Monday with reference to conclusions by a missile expert at the International Institute for Strategic Studies that the Hwasong-14 intercontinental ballistic missile launched by the DPRK in July may have been powered by an engine designed on the basis of the RD-250, which was developed for Soviet ICBMs in the 1960s.
The report names Pivdenmash, which The New York Times describes as "one of Russia's primary producers of missiles even after Ukraine gained independence," as the most likely supplier of technology for building the engine for the North Korean missile.
Pivdenmash is a key enterprise of Ukraine's space rocket industry, which manufactures launch vehicles and civil, research and military satellites.
Now Ukraine color revolution puzzle gets another element in place.
US Antares used Russian Rocket engines (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antares_(rocket)) following Gorbachev destruction of USSR.
Doing this he also "sold" USSR gold out of the country.
North Korea had a problem with ballistic missile propulsion. W/o serious rocket engine "US did not have idea how to make them" despite Shuttle and Saturn V (this last is monumentally ludicrous as design drawings were "lost", so they had to fish one engine from the deep sea to get how Werner Von Brown made it while he still was alive even if NASA was, from the start, an Fourth Reich operation), Kim would be a fluke despite his Swiss education.
