Tag: cargo
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Cygnus leaves space station and conducts NASA fire experiment in microgravity
CAPE CANAVERAL — Bidding farewell to the International Space Station today, the commercial Cygnus cargo ship separated to a safe distance before igniting an intentional fire in microgravity like never before, all in the name of science. The NASA-sponsored Spacecraft Fire Experiment, or SAFFIRE, was conducted to better understand how flames will behave in weightlessness…
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Photos: Cygnus goes from Cape Canaveral to the space station
This collection of official NASA photographs captures the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket rolling to the pad on Monday, successfully blasting off Tuesday and the Cygnus freighter arriving at the International Space Station on Saturday morning. Credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky Credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky Credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett Credit: NASA/Tony Gray & Kevin O’Connell…
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Traveling Cygnus pulls into port at International Space Station
CAPE CANAVERAL — Astronauts aboard the International Space Station used the robotic arm to snare a commercial cargo ship and bring it aboard this morning while traveling at five miles per second. The Orbital ATK Cygnus freighter, dubbed the S.S. Rick Husband, was captured at 6:51 a.m. EDT (1051 GMT) by Expedition 47 commander and…
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Atlas 5 forced to improvise during Tuesday’s climb to orbit
Credit: United Launch Alliance CAPE CANAVERAL — The Centaur upper stage launching the Cygnus space freighter Tuesday persevered through a velocity shortfall from the first stage of the Atlas 5 rocket, improvising with a longer firing to reach the correct orbit. The 16,500-pound payload was injected into a 147 by 144-statute-mile orbit at 51.6 degrees…
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2nd Cygnus ship in three months rockets to orbit aboard Atlas 5
CAPE CANAVERAL — An Atlas 5 rocket successfully launched another Cygnus cargo freighter for Orbital ATK Tuesday night, fulfilling the booster’s role of reestablishing America’s resupply link to the International Space Station. If all goes well over the next three days, the Cygnus will intercept the station on Saturday to deliver 7,485 pounds of food,…
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Preview: Cygnus to take flight Tuesday aboard Atlas 5 rocket
Credit: ULA CAPE CANAVERAL — A hundred days after the last U.S. commercial resupply of the International Space Station by a Cygnus cargo ship launched atop an Atlas 5 rocket, the booster and freighter duo will do it again Tuesday. It was just three months ago when a United Launch Alliance Atlas delivered Orbital ATK’s…
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International Space Station to study meteors hitting atmosphere
Astronaut Ron Garan, Expedition 28 flight engineer, caught this image from the International Space Station in 2011 during Perseid Meteor Shower. Credit: NASA CAPE CANAVERAL — Peering down at the Earth’s atmosphere from a research window aboard the International Space Station, a new science instrument launching Tuesday will compose unprecedented characterizations of the chemical makeup…
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Atlas 5/Cygnus OA-6 launch timeline
Follow the Atlas 5 rocket’s ascent into orbit from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 41 launch pad with the Orbital ATK Cygnus resupply ship for the International Space Station. Launch is scheduled for Tuesday at 11:05 p.m. EDT (0305 GMT). T+00:01.1: Liftoff The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 vehicle, designated AV-064, will lift off and begin a…
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Scientists to start fire in discarded spacecraft to study flames in weightless
The SAFFIRE mission logo. Credit: NASA CAPE CANAVERAL — Working via remote control this spring, scientists will spark a fire aboard the unmanned Cygnus cargo ship that launches next Tuesday to study how the deliberate flames spread in weightlessness. Aptly named the Spacecraft Fire Experiment, or SAFFIRE, the blaze will be contained within an instrumented…
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Photos: Atlas 5 rocket assembled for space station resupply launch
Relive the steps to stack the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket at Cape Canaveral’s Vertical Integration Facility for the Orbital ATK Cygnus cargo freighter for the International Space Station. The first stage was erected on Feb. 22, followed by the combined interstage and Centaur upper stage on Feb. 26, then the encapsulated payload on…