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Launch of the Cygnus CRS OA-7 mission. The COTS demonstration mission was successfully conducted in September 2013, and Orbital commenced operational ISS cargo missions under the Commercial Resupply Service (CRS) program with two missions in 2014. The third operational mission, Orb CRS-3, was not successful due to an Antares failure during ...
Rocket fell back onto the pad and exploded. [32] [33] [34] First Antares launch to use Castor 30XL upper stage. In addition to ISS supplies, payload included a Planetary Resources Arkyd-3 satellite [35] and a NASA JPL/UT Austin CubeSat mission named RACE. [36] 6 October 17, 2016 23:45 Antares 230 MARS, LP-0A Cygnus (enhanced) CRS OA-5 Alan G ...
Launch Pad 0 (LP-0), also known as Launch Complex 0 (LC-0), [2] or Launch Area 0 (LA-0), [3] is a launch complex at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) on Wallops Island, Virginia, in the United States. [2] MARS is located right next to the NASA Wallops Flight Facility (WFF), which had run the launch complex until 2003. [4]
Cygnus NG-13 is the second Cygnus mission under Commercial Resupply Services-2.. Production and integration of Cygnus spacecraft are performed in Dulles, Virginia. The Cygnus service module is mated with the pressurized cargo module at the launch site, and mission operations are conducted from control centers in Dulles, Virginia and Houston, Texas.
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With the switch to more powerful launch vehicles and the introduction of a larger Enhanced Cygnus, enabled Orbital ATK to cover their initial CRS contracted payload obligation by OA-7. [29] [30] CRS OA-4 [note 3]: 6 December 2015 - Atlas V, first Enhanced Cygnus [29] CRS OA-6: 23 March 2016 - Atlas V; CRS OA-5: 17 October 2016 - Antares 230 ...
The new launch site will be for Rocket Lab's Neutron and will be named Launch pad 0D (LP-0D). Rocket Lab will refer to LP-0D as launch complex 3 or LC-3 (located at 37°49′56″N 75°29′24″W / 37.8321693°N 75.4899046°W / 37.8321693; -75.4899046 ( Wallops Island Launch Complex
The Cygnus OA-5 and OA-7 will fly on the new Antares 230 and OA-6 will fly on second Atlas V in first quarter of 2016. These three missions enable Orbital ATK to fulfill their CRS contracted payload obligation. [18] This particular mission is known as OA-5. Production and integration of Cygnus spacecraft is performed in Dulles, Virginia.