Michael Hill, manager of Antares program, sent the thank-you letter to the address of Alexander Degtyarev, Yuzhnoye SDO General Director, and the whole YSDO team in connection with successful launch of the Antares rocket.

«Let me congratulate you and your excellent team with perfect launch of NG-11, — wrote Michael Hill. — We appreciate the support of our program by the Yuzhnoye SDO team. Your assistance in resolution of telemetry problem during the NG-10 mission, as well as handling the premature disconnection of Humidity Maintenance System pipeline day before launch, was priceless. These examples clearly demonstrate how important the technical assistance of your specialists is for us. It instils confidence in the success of the mission to have the members of the Yuzhnoye technical team around at the flight facility. With your team involved we fear no employee turnover here at Wallops, not even in Dulles, we can rely on the ongoing support of the Yuzhnoye specialists, having the expert knowledge of the Stage 1 Core, and this is the formula for success of our program».