Tag: Cygnus
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Antares rocket transferred to Virginia launch pad for station resupply flight
A Northrop Grumman Antares rocket rolled out of its hangar Monday night, riding a self-propelled transporter for a mile-long trip to launch pad 0A on Wallops Island, Virginia, for a predawn liftoff Thursday with a Cygnus supply ship heading for the International Space Station. But rainy weather and clouds at the launch base on Virginia’s…
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Cygnus departs ISS following reboost test
The Northrop Grumman OA-9E Cygnus spacecraft has departed the ISS at the concluding phase of her mission. The departure comes five days after a unique test objective. The cargo resupply vehicle provided a reboost to the Station with a short 50 second burn of its main engine on the aft of the vehicle, raising the…
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Cygnus cargo ship released from space station, heads for extended mission
The Cygnus supply ship flies away from the International Space Station after release from Canadarm 2 on Sunday. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now Closing out 52 days at the International Space Station, an automated Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo craft left the research outpost Sunday to climb into a higher orbit for deployment of six CubeSats and…
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Live coverage: Cygnus supply ship departs space station
Live coverage of Northrop Grumman’s ninth operational Cygnus resupply flight to the International Space Station. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter.
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U.S. cargo craft tests reboost capability at International Space Station
The Russian Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft, left, and Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo craft, right, are seen attached to the International Space Station in June. Credit: NASA A commercial Northrop Grumman Cygnus supply ship berthed at the International Space Station fired its main engine for 50 seconds Tuesday in a test of the spacecraft’s ability to reboost,…
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BEST Station experiment aims for in-situ bacterial identification, sequence RNA for first time in space
When the S.S. J.R. Thompson (OA-9E) Cygnus arrived at the International Space Station last month, it brought with it the Biomolecule Extraction and Sequencing Technology, or BEST, experiment that will aim to demonstrate the ability to perform in-situ identification of microbes onboard the International Space Station, study mutation rates over time in bacterial genomes, and…
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BEST Station experiment aims for in-situ bacterial identification, sequence RNA for first time in space
When the S.S. J.R. Thompson (OA-9E) Cygnus arrived at the International Space Station last month, it brought with it the Biomolecule Extraction and Sequencing Technology, or BEST, experiment that will aim to demonstrate the ability to perform in-situ identification of microbes onboard the International Space Station, study mutation rates over time in bacterial genomes, and…
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Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems aims for one year or more on-orbit Cygnus lifetime
With Northrop Grumman’s acquisition of Orbital ATK complete, the newly-formed Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems will now be the division within Northrop Grumman responsible for all Cygnus missions to the International Space Station as well as the execution of the extended CRS1 and the upcoming CRS2 contracts. As part of those contracts, the company will continue…
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Orbital ATK looks ahead to CRS2 Cygnus flights, Antares on the commercial market
As Orbital ATK’s OA-9E Cygnus mission continues its to-date flawless mission at the ISS, the company is looking ahead toward the commencement of the CRS2 contract flights of Cygnus beginning in 2019 as well as the first flights of an enhanced version of its Antares rocket. Orbital ATK also plans to offer Antares on the…
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OA-9 Cygnus arrives at Station, makes first use of new C2V2 radio
The OA-9 (S.S. J.R. Thompson) Cygnus has arrived at the International Space Station early Thursday morning. During the approach, Cygnus became the first craft to use the new Common Communications for Visiting Vehicles (C2V2) radio – which will be instrumental for the upcoming commercial crew vehicles. During its stay at ISS, Cygnus will hopefully perform…