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Antares 230+ | Cygnus CRS-2 NG-15 (S.S. Katherine Johnson)
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-15 (S.S. Katherine Johnson)
- Type
- Resupply
- Target orbit
- Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
- Weather probability
- 75% go
This is the 15th planned flight of the Orbital ATK's uncrewed resupply spacecraft Cygnus and its 14th flight to the International Space Station under the Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA. This Cygnus spacecraft carries the name of American mathematician Katherine Johnson, whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S. crewed spaceflights.
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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