Antares 230+ | Cygnus CRS-2 NG-17 (S.S. Piers Sellers)
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Launch Window
Feb. 19, 2022, 5:40 p.m. - Feb. 19, 2022, 5:40 p.m.
Instantaneous launch window.
Feb. 19, 2022, 5:40 p.m. - Feb. 19, 2022, 5:40 p.m.
This is the 17th flight of the Orbital ATK's uncrewed resupply spacecraft Cygnus and its 16th flight to the International Space Station under the Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA. This Cygnus spacecraft is named after American astronaut and climate scientist Piers Sellers. Sellers was a part of three Space Shuttle missions tasked with assembly of the International Space Station.
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Successful launch. Cygnus will arrive at the ISS on Monday morning.
Liftoff
Adjusting T-0
Weather 75%
T-0 confirmed by NASA.
Antares known during early development as Taurus II, is an expendable launch system developed by Orbital Sciences Corporation (now part of Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems after Northrop Grumman acquired Orbital ATK) and the Yuzhnoye Design Bureau to launch the Cygnus spacecraft to the International Space Station as part of NASA's COTS and CRS programs. Able to launch payloads heavier than 5,000 kg (11,000 lb) into low-Earth orbit, Antares is the largest rocket operated by Orbital ATK. Antares launches from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport and made its inaugural flight on April 21, 2013.
See DetailsThis is the seventeenth flight to the ISS by the Cygnus spacecraft under the CRS program and their sixth under the CRS-2 program. This is also the 13th use of the enhanced size Cygnus.
Cygnus Enhanced DetailsNorthrup Grumman Space Systems designs, builds and delivers space, defence and aviation-related systems to customers around the world. They aquired Orbital ATK in 2018 along with its launchers and ongoing missions.
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