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Cygnus is typically launched using its parent company's Antares rocket from the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, however it is able to fly on other launch vehicles. After the failure of an Antares rocket destroyed Cygnus CRS Flight 3 and damaged the Wallops facility, two Cygnus missions were launched with Atlas V rockets in 2015 and 2016.
Antares 120 MARS, LP-0A Cygnus (standard) CRS Orb-1 C. Gordon Fullerton [58] 1,260 kg (2,780 lb) [63] LEO (ISS) Orbital Sciences Corporation NASA Success First Commercial Resupply Service (CRS) mission for Cygnus, and first Antares launch using the Castor 30B upper stage. [35] [64] 4 July 13, 2014 16:52 Antares 120 MARS, LP-0A Cygnus (standard)
Orbital Sciences Corp. has reportedly signed a contract with Russia's NPO Energomash to supply 60 new built RD-181 engines for the Antares rocket. [26] While Antares/AJ-26 is not flying and the follow-on launch vehicle is in development and test, Orbital is shopping to purchase launch services for its Cygnus capsule to ISS cargo runs ...
"Through our collaboration, we will first develop a fully domestic version of our Antares rocket, the Antares 330, for Cygnus space station commercial resupply services, followed by an entirely ...
Antares 230 MARS, LP-0A Cygnus (enhanced) CRS NG-10 John Young: 3,416 kg (7,531 lb) LEO (ISS) Northrop Grumman: NASA (CRS) Success Largest number of satellites launched on a single rocket (108). Cygnus NG-10, CHEFsat 2, Kicksat 2, 104 Sprite Chipsats (deployed from Kicksat 2), MYSAT 1. 10 April 17, 2019 20:46 Antares 230 MARS, LP-0A Cygnus ...
The launch agreement with SpaceX coincides with Northrop climbing out of a months-long predicament with its workhorse Antares rocket, whose Russian-made engines were cut off from the United States ...
The Antares (rocket) made its maiden flight lifting a payload mass simulator to low Earth orbit (LEO) on 21 April 2013. [31] On 18 September 2013, Antares successfully launched a Cygnus spacecraft to rendezvous with the International Space Station.
Cygnus Orb-3 spacecraft integrated with Antares rocket. This would have been the third of eight flights by Orbital Sciences under the Commercial Resupply Services (CRS-1) contract with NASA . This was the first attempted flight of the Antares 130 , which uses a more powerful Castor 30XL second stage, and the last flight of the standard-sized ...