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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.
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)
In August 2023, Northrop Grumman announced a further enlarged Mission B version of Cygnus, with a 1.5 m (4.9 ft) stretch to the payload module and payload mass increased to 5,000 kg (11,000 lb). This version is expected to enter service with the NG-23 mission in 2025 (the first to use the new Antares 330 launch vehicle).
As a result Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Northrop Grumman was left with only two remaining Antares 230+ launch vehicles which were used for the CRS NG-18 and CRS NG-19 missions. Northrop Grumman acquired three flights from SpaceX with the Falcon 9 rocket while a replacement first stage and its engine are developed for its Antares 330 rocket.
Northrop received a $935-million fixed price contract to build the module in 2021 and took a $42-million charge in last year's fourth quarter because of higher expenses, raising its 2023 program ...
NG-13, previously known as OA-13, was the fourteenth flight of the Northrop Grumman robotic resupply spacecraft Cygnus and its thirteenth flight to the International Space Station (ISS) under the Commercial Resupply Services (CRS-1) contract with NASA. [4] [5] The mission launched on 15 February 2020 at 20:21:01 UTC after nearly a week of ...
TASC, Inc., formerly known as The Analytic Sciences Corporation, is an American private defense contractor based outside Washington, D.C., in Chantilly, Virginia. Northrop Grumman owned TASC from 2001 to 2009, when it sold the unit to comply with new government conflict of interest rules.