US ROCKET ANTARES EXPLODES DURING LAUNCH

An unmanned supply rocket headed for the International Space Station has impacted in the midst of its dispatch from the US state of Virginia. Antares, a 14-story rocket developed by Orbital Sciences Corp, combusted seconds in the wake of leaving the coastline stage at Wallops Flight Facility. The purpose behind the heap watercraft breakdown has yet to be never going to budge. The beginning organized dispatch of the rocket on Monday was put off in light of a sailboat in close-by waters. The flight was depended upon to be the third contracted mission with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The rocket was a direct result of pass on around 5,000 pounds (2,200kgs) of supplies to six space voyagers ready for International Space Station. "We will understand what happened, definitely soon, and we'll get things again on track," said Frank Culbertson, official VP of Orbital Sciences. We've all seen this in our business in the later past, and we've all seen the gatherings recover from this, and we will do in like manner." No one was hurt, said Mr Culbertson, and an examination gathering was by then encountering the data to endeavor to make the reason. On Wednesday morning, he said, the examination of junk around the site would begin. The examination won't structure a hurried notion yet one line of appeal will surely focus on the AJ-26 engines used to lift the rocket a long way from the pad, says BBC science writer Jonathan Amos. "These are truly balanced Russian-amassed power units that were at first made for the bound Soviet romanticize speed, the N-1. "They have been restored to present day benchmarks, yet one blasted in ground testing quite recently."