{"id":15916,"date":"2015-11-20T19:04:44","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T11:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/international-space-station-cargo-ship-hoisted-atop-atlas-5-rocket\/"},"modified":"2015-11-20T19:04:44","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T11:04:44","slug":"international-space-station-cargo-ship-hoisted-atop-atlas-5-rocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/international-space-station-cargo-ship-hoisted-atop-atlas-5-rocket\/","title":{"rendered":"International Space Station cargo ship hoisted atop Atlas 5 rocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_10662\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10662\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-10662\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/av_gpsiif10_m3710201592859PM63-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"File photo of payload hoisting. Credit: ULA\" width=\"620\" height=\"930\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/av_gpsiif10_m3710201592859PM63-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/av_gpsiif10_m3710201592859PM63-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/av_gpsiif10_m3710201592859PM63-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/av_gpsiif10_m3710201592859PM63.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10662\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">File photo of payload hoisting. Credit: ULA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>CAPE CANAVERAL \u2014 Loaded with over 7,300 pounds of goods for the International Space Station, a commercial Cygnus cargo vessel was mounted atop its Atlas 5 rocket booster today for launch Dec. 3.<\/p>\n<p>Just over a week after stacking of the two-stage launcher began at the Vertical Integration Facility adjacent to the pad at Complex 41, the encapsulated payload was installed to top off the 194-foot-tall rocket this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Shrouded in the 45-foot-long, 14-foot-diameter nose cone of the Atlas 5 and already packed full of its space station supplies, the Cygnus was trucked overnight from Kennedy Space Center\u2019s Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.<\/p>\n<p>An overhead crane at the VIF picked up the 16,517-pound freighter, maneuvered it into the Atlas integration building and set it in place for mating to the Centaur upper stage.<\/p>\n<p>The rocket and spacecraft will undergo a tip-to-tail electrical checkout next week, followed by the Thanksgiving break and a series of final readiness reviews clear the vehicle for flight. Rollout to the launch pad occurs at 10 a.m. EST on Dec. 2.<\/p>\n<p>This will be the heaviest payload ever launched by an Atlas rocket and the vehicle\u2019s first flight dedicated to the International Space Station.<\/p>\n<p>The OA-4 Cygnus is carrying 7,383 pounds of provisions to the station, not counting packing materials. The total mass with packing is 7,745 pounds.<\/p>\n<p>Among the specifics:<\/p>\n<p>-Crew supplies: 2,604 pounds<br \/>\n-Vehicle hardware: 2,220 pounds<br \/>\n-Science utilization: 1,867 pounds<br \/>\n-EVA gear: 500 pounds<br \/>\n-Computer resources: 192 pounds<\/p>\n<p>The Dec. 3 launch will put the Cygnus on a path leading to intercept of the station on Dec. 6. Liftoff will be possible during a 30-minute launch window opening at approximately 5:55 p.m. EST (2255 GMT).<\/p>\n<p>The launch window is much longer than other station-bound vehicles given the Atlas 5 rocket\u2019s performance and its capability to navigate into the orbital plane of the laboratory.<\/p>\n<p>See earlier Cygnus OA-4 coverage.<\/p>\n<p>Our Atlas archive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File photo of payload hoisting. Credit: ULA CAPE CANAVERAL \u2014 Loaded with over 7,300 pounds of goods for the International Space Station, a commercial Cygnus cargo vessel was mounted atop its Atlas 5 rocket booster today for launch Dec. 3. Just over a week after stacking of the two-stage launcher began at the Vertical Integration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[724,3800,286,2304,639,717,3801,2899],"class_list":["post-15916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-atlas-5","tag-av-061","tag-cargo","tag-crs","tag-cygnus","tag-international-space-station","tag-oa-4","tag-orbital-atk"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15916"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}