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While most Cygnus missions have been launched atop Northrop Grumman's Antares rocket from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, NG-21 was the second of three missions planned to launch atop the Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Northrop Grumman exhausted the supply of its Antares 230+ rocket after the NG-19 ...
As an interim solution, Northrup Grumman contracted with its CRS competitor SpaceX to launch NG-20, 21 and 22 using its Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket. With the launch of NG-20, Cygnus becomes only cargo freighter to launch on four different orbital launchers, that is, Antares rocket (100 series), Atlas V , Antares 200 series and Falcon 9.
NG-10 John Young: Northrop Grumman CRS Flight 10 Enhanced 17 November 2018, 09:01:31 Antares 230: 7,386 lb (3,350 kg) Success [49] [50] 12 NG-11 Roger Chaffee: Northrop Grumman CRS Flight 11 Enhanced 17 April 2019, 20:46:07 Antares 230: 7,575 lb (3,436 kg) Success [51] 13 NG-12 Alan Bean: Northrop Grumman CRS Flight 12 Enhanced 2 November 2019 ...
Northrop Grumman NASA (CRS) Success Cygnus NG-12 is the first mission under the NASA Commercial Resupply Services-2 contract. NG-12 is also the first to use upgraded launcher, Antares 230+. 12 February 15, 2020 20:21 Antares 230+ MARS, LP-0A Cygnus (enhanced) CRS NG-13 Robert Lawrence, Jr. 3,377 kg (7,445 lbs) LEO (ISS) Northrop Grumman NASA (CRS)
NG-21 PCM Lift to Work Stand, SSPF Image title The Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft’s pressurized cargo module for the company’s 21st commercial resupply mission is lifted and moved by a crane inside the Space Systems Processing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday, June 1, 2024, as prelaunch processing ...
About 8,000 Northrop Grumman employees had worked on the program with more than 400 suppliers from at least 40 states. [14] Video of the B-21 Raider unveiling in Palmdale, California on 2 December 2022. The first B-21 test aircraft was unveiled at Northrop Grumman's production facilities in Palmdale, California, on 2 December 2022.
Cygnus NG-18 was the seventh Cygnus mission under the Commercial Resupply Services-2 contract. Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems confirmed on 23 February 2021 that Thales Alenia Space of Turin, Italy, will fabricate two additional Pressurized Cargo Modules (PCMs) for a pair of forthcoming Commercial Resupply Services-2 missions.
The Star 20 (TE-M-640) is a solid fuel apogee kick motor, also known as Altair-3A. [12] It was used as a second stage on an Atlas-E/F vehicle launching Stacksat. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] The TE-M-640 motor is similar to Altair 3 (FW-4S) , and both are designated by NASA as Altair IIIA.