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First Antares mission with a real Cygnus capsule, first mission to rendezvous and berth with the International Space Station, second launch of Antares. The rendezvous maneuver was delayed due to a computer data link problem, [ 60 ] but the issue was resolved and berthing followed shortly thereafter.
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.
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 ...
'I'm very happy to see Antares back,' one worker said of the liftoff, which is the first in two years and was delayed due to malfunctions. Orbital rocket blasts off on space station cargo run Skip ...
Antares (/ æ n ˈ t ɑː r iː z /), known during early development as Taurus II, is an expendable launch system developed by Orbital Sciences Corporation (later part of Northrop Grumman) and the Pivdenne Design Bureau to launch the Cygnus spacecraft to the International Space Station as part of NASA's COTS and CRS programs.
Investigators believe they know what caused the massive failure and explosion of the Antares rocket just seconds after it lifted off a Virginia launch pad. The CEO of Orbital Sciences spoke with ...
The spacecraft is an Enhanced Cygnus, named the S.S. Francis R. "Dick" Scobee in honor of the NASA astronaut who died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. NG-21 is the second launch of a Cygnus spacecraft after Northrop Grumman exhausted the supply of its Antares 230+ rocket.
Production and integration of Cygnus spacecraft is performed in Dulles, Virginia. ... The Antares rocket launched the 8th Cygnus cargo vehicle on Sunday 12 November ...