{"id":12630,"date":"2020-02-19T19:13:47","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T11:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/photos-antares-rocket-lifts-off-with-station-bound-cygnus-supply-ship\/"},"modified":"2020-02-19T19:13:47","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T11:13:47","slug":"photos-antares-rocket-lifts-off-with-station-bound-cygnus-supply-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/photos-antares-rocket-lifts-off-with-station-bound-cygnus-supply-ship\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Antares rocket lifts off with station-bound Cygnus supply ship"},"content":{"rendered":"

Powered by two Russian-made RD-181 main engines, a Northrop Grumman Antares rocket fired into a mostly sunny sky Saturday afternoon over Virginia\u2019s Eastern Shore carrying nearly 7,500 pounds of equipment to the International Space Station.<\/p>\n

The twin-engine first stage ignited and throttled up to produce more than 860,000 pounds of thrust, pushing the 139-foot-tall (42.5-meter) Antares launcher skyward at 3:21 p.m. EST (2021 GMT) Saturday.<\/p>\n

The launch kicked off Northrop Grumman\u2019s 13th operational resupply mission to the space station. The Cygnus cargo freighter was loaded with a compact scanning electron microscope, a UK-built high-speed communications antenna, biological research experiments and three small satellites to be deployed from the space station for the U.S. military and NASA.<\/p>\n

The Cygnus spaceship reached the space station early Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Read our launch story for details on the mission.<\/p>\n

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