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Antares 230+ | Cygnus CRS-2 NG-16 (S.S. Ellison Onizuka)
Northrop Grumman Space SystemsLaunch Area 0 A — Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
mission
- Name
- Cygnus CRS-2 NG-16 (S.S. Ellison Onizuka)
- Type
- Resupply
- Target orbit
- Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
- Weather probability
- 80% go
This is the 16th planned flight of the Orbital ATK's uncrewed resupply spacecraft Cygnus and its 15th flight to the International Space Station under the Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA. This Cygnus spacecraft is named after American astronaut Ellison Onizuka who died in the destruction of the Space Shuttle Challenger.
schedule
- NET (no earlier than)
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vehicle & provider
- Rocket
- Antares 230+
- Family
- Antares
- Variant
- 230+
- Provider
- Northrop Grumman Space Systems
- Type
- Commercial
- Country
- USA
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launch site
- Pad
- Launch Area 0 A
- Location
- Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA
- Country
- USA
- Timezone
- America/New_York
- Coordinates
- 37.8337, -75.4881
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