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During the summer, Antares and NASA conducted an electrically heated demonstration of the reactor system at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
Antares currently employs about 60 staff.
Antares plans to conduct a first-of-a-kind electricity-producing demonstration unit in 2027.
In April, DIU selected Antares under the Advanced Nuclear Power for Installations program to supply nuclear power to Department of War installations.
Antares is developing a 145,000-square-foot manufacturing complex in Torrance, California, designed to produce up to 10 microreactor units a year.
Antares operates across Torrance, California; Idaho Falls, Idaho; and Aiken, South Carolina.
Antares closed a $96 million Series B funding round.
Shine Capital led the Series B funding round for Antares.
Since the retirement of Antares, SEOPS has operated exclusively on SpaceX rideshare missions.
SEOPS has previously flown payloads aboard Northrop Grumman’s Antares rockets.
Launch Pad-0A at MARS will be configured to launch Alpha as early as 2025 in addition to supporting Antares 330 and the Medium Launch Vehicle (MLV).
Firefly Aerospace installed state-of-the-art machinery at Briggs to support production of Northrop Grumman’s Antares 330 and the Medium Launch Vehicle that Firefly and Northrop Grumman are co-developing.
Firefly Aerospace is supporting production of Northrop Grumman’s Antares 330 and the Medium Launch Vehicle (MLV) that Firefly and Northrop Grumman are co-developing.
STORIES of Space Mission 01 launched on 2023-08-01 on an Antares rocket from NASA Wallops Flight Facility aboard a Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft.
The MLV will follow Antares 330 and will replace the Northrop-built solid-fuel second stage with a second stage developed by Firefly using a vacuum-optimized Miranda engine and a five-meter payload fairing developed by Northrop Grumman.
Antares 330 will replace the Ukrainian-built first stage and Russian engines of the earlier Antares 230 with a new first stage built by Firefly using Miranda engines.
The Antares 330 replaces the Ukrainian-built first stage and Russian-manufactured engines with a stage and engines produced by Firefly Aerospace.
Most previous Cygnus missions launched on Northrop Grumman’s Antares rocket, except two that launched on United Launch Alliance Atlas V vehicles after an Antares launch failure in 2014.
Northrop procured three Falcon 9 launches for Cygnus while it works with Firefly Aerospace on the Antares 330 rocket.
Northrop Grumman is working with Firefly Aerospace to replace the Ukrainian-built Antares first stage powered by Russian engines with a stage developed by Firefly using its own engines.