Antares 230 | Cygnus CRS OA-9 (S.S. J.R. Thompson)

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May 21, 2018, 8:44 a.m.

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May 21, 2018, 8:39 a.m. - May 21, 2018, 8:44 a.m.


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Low Earth Orbit Launch Area 0 A Wallops Island, Virginia, USA Probability: 75% #OA9

Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems

Antares 230

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CEO: Wesley G. Bush Founded: 2015 Successes: 7 Failures: 0 Pending: 2

Northrup Grumman Innovation 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. Antares launches from Wallops in Virginia. Minotaur has many launch sites, with the most active now being Cape Canaveral and Vandenberg. Pegasus is an air launched vehicle from an aircraft and so has many launch locations.

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Cygnus CRS OA-9 (S.S. J.R. Thompson)

Resupply

This is the tenth planned flight of the Orbital ATK's unmanned resupply spacecraft Cygnus and its ninth flight to the International Space Station under the Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA.

Antares 230

Family: Antares
Configuration: 230

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.

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