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Gallery: Antares rocket explodes

October 28, 2014 Spaceflight Now

A sequence of images from the NASA TV broadcast of the ill-fated launch of the Antares rocket.

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  • SpaceX launches 160th Falcon 9 rocket of 2025
    December 10, 2025
  • SpaceX launches classified payload for the National Reconnaissance Office
    December 9, 2025
  • Soyuz safely lands in Kazakhstan
    December 9, 2025
  • SpaceX launches 3,000th Starlink satellite in 2025 on record-setting 32nd flight of Falcon 9 booster
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  • SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg SFB
    December 7, 2025
  • International Space Station prepares for new commander, heads into final five years of planned operations
    December 5, 2025
  • SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg SFB
    December 4, 2025
  • Orion hatch ‘blemish’ delays launch day rehearsal for Artemis 2 astronauts
    December 4, 2025
  • Jared Isaacman makes second appeal for NASA administrator position
    December 3, 2025
  • Sunset SpaceX launch adds 29 more Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit
    December 2, 2025
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