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Cygnus CRS Orb-3
was an attempted flight of
Cygnus
, an
automated cargo spacecraft
developed by United States-based company
Orbital Sciences
, on 28 October 2014. This flight, which would have been its fourth to the
International Space Station
and the fifth of an
Antares
launch vehicle, resulted in the Antares rocket exploding seconds after liftoff.
Photograph: NASA/Joel Kowsky
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