{"id":62580,"date":"2019-04-18T23:25:53","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T15:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/northrop-grumman-successfully-launches-nasa-mission\/"},"modified":"2019-04-18T23:25:53","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T15:25:53","slug":"northrop-grumman-successfully-launches-nasa-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/northrop-grumman-successfully-launches-nasa-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Northrop Grumman Successfully Launches NASA Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Northrop Grumman<\/strong> successfully launched its Antares&nbsp;rocket carrying a Cygnus&nbsp;spacecraft yesterday at 4:46 p.m. EDT from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Pad 0A on Wallops Island, Virginia, at<strong> NASA<\/strong>\u2019s Wallops Flight Facility. The launch marks Northrop Grumman\u2019s 11th cargo mission carrying supplies to the astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) for NASA.<\/p>\n<p>Following the release of Cygnus, Antares performed another new capability, deploying secondary satellites for science, technology, engineering and mathematics outreach programs. This included the NASA-sponsored 3U CubeSat called Student Aerothermal Spectrometer Satellite of Illinois and Indiana CubeSat (SASSI2) and 60 ThinSats sponsored by Virginia Space Flight Authority. Additionally, the spacecraft carried <strong>Orbital Micro Systems<\/strong>\u2018 first satellite in its Global Environmental Monitoring System (GEMS) constellation \u2014 the IOD-1.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis launch marks a new innovative capability for Antares and Cygnus, which enables a 24-hour late load of critical cargo,\u201d said Scott Lehr, vice president and general manager, flight systems, Northrop Grumman. \u201cWe are proud to partner with NASA to provide more commercial capabilities supporting their missions. Congratulations to the entire team on an excellent launch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northrop Grumman successfully launched its Antares&nbsp;rocket carrying a Cygnus&nbsp;spacecraft yesterday at 4:46 p.m. EDT from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Pad 0A on Wallops Island, Virginia, at NASA\u2019s Wallops Flight Facility. The launch marks Northrop Grumman\u2019s 11th cargo mission carrying supplies to the astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) for NASA. Following the release of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54949,"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":[],"class_list":["post-62580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62580"}],"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=62580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}