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The Antares rocket carrying the Orb-3 Cygnus launched as scheduled from Launch Pad 0A on 28 October 2014. Fifteen seconds after liftoff a failure of propulsion occurred in the first stage. The vehicle began falling back to the launch pad and the Range Safety Officer engaged its flight termination system just before impact. [10] [11]
OA-7, previously known as Orbital-7, is the eighth flight of the Orbital ATK uncrewed resupply spacecraft Cygnus and its seventh flight to the International Space Station (ISS) under the Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA. [5] The mission launched on 18 April 2017 at 15:11:26 UTC. Orbital and NASA jointly developed a new space ...
In an Orbital ATK tradition, this Cygnus spacecraft was named Deke Slayton II after Deke Slayton, one of NASA's original Mercury Seven astronauts and Director of Flight Operations, who died in 1993. This spacecraft reuses the name Deke Slayton, originally applied to the Orb-3 spacecraft which was lost in an Antares rocket explosion in October ...
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The Cygnus Orb-D1 mission was the first flight of the Cygnus spacecraft and used the standard configuration with a Pressurized Cargo Module (PCM), [2] built by Thales Alenia Space, in Italy. [10] Orbital named this mission's Cygnus spacecraft the G. David Low after the former NASA astronaut and Orbital employee who died of cancer on 15 March 2008.
As of 7 a.m. local time on Wednesday, Jan. 8, four named wildfires are impacting various parts of Southern California, according to data from CalFire.. The largest blaze is the Palisades Fire ...
L.A. had the option to attempt a free kick after the fair catch. It was the rare instance in which it made sense because no time remained on the clock.
Orbital-1, [7] [8] also known as Orb-1, [8] [9] [4] was the second flight of the Orbital Sciences Cygnus cargo spacecraft, its second flight to the International Space Station (ISS) and the third launch of the company's Antares launch vehicle. The mission launched on 9 January 2014 at 18:07:05 UTC. [4]