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Watch as the Cygnus spacecraft arrives at the International Space Station on Friday 4 August. The craft, also known as the SS Laurel Clark - named for the fallen space shuttle Columbia astronaut ...
The pressurized cargo module is lifted and moved by a crane inside the Space Systems Processing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on 1 June 2024. The Cygnus spacecraft was loaded with a total of 3,857 kilograms (8,503 lb) of cargo and supplies before its launch, including 3,843 kilograms (8,472 lb) of pressurised and 14 ...
Additionally, two Cygnus missions have launched on the Falcon 9 rocket in 2024 with one more scheduled to launch in 2025, operated by CRS competitor SpaceX. In addition to Cygnus, ISS resupply missions have been flown by the Russian Progress spacecraft , the European Automated Transfer Vehicle , the Japanese H-II Transfer Vehicle and the ...
SpaceX launched the first Starship test flight in April, but the vehicle encountered issues only 24 miles above the Gulf of Mexico when leaking propellant caused a fire in the Super Heavy booster ...
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 spacecraft was an Enhanced Cygnus, named the S.S. Patricia "Patty" Hilliard Robertson in honor of the NASA astronaut who died in a plane crash prior to being assigned to a crew to fly to the ISS. NG-20 was the first launch of a Cygnus spacecraft after Northrop Grumman exhausted the supply of its Antares 230+ rocket.
SpaceX loses Starship rocket. Starship launch live: Stream of historic attempt begins. 12:30, Anthony Cuthbertson. The live stream of today’s Starship launch attempt is here, you can watch it below.
This was the third flight of the Enhanced sized Cygnus PCM. [18] The mission successfully launched on 17 October 2016, 23:45 UTC. [4] In keeping with an Orbital ATK tradition, this Cygnus spacecraft is named the S.S. Alan Poindexter after the NASA astronaut who flew aboard the Space Shuttle twice (2008 and 2010).