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Orbital Sciences' Antares rocket explodes with space station-bound cargo [i]An Orbital Sciences' Antares rocket carrying a commercial unmanned cargo spacecraft bound for the International Space Station exploded just seconds after launching from the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on Tuesday evening (Oct. 28). The cause of the mishap, as Orbital described it, is still to be determined. "What we know so far is pretty much what everyone saw," Frank Culbertson, Orbital's executive vice president and a former astronaut, told reporters during a press conference on Tuesday night. "The ascent stopped, there was some, let's say, 'disassembly' of the first stage, and then it fell to Earth." "We don't have any early indications of what exactly might have failed. We need some more time to take a look at that," he said.[/i]
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