{"id":76930,"date":"2014-07-15T00:46:41","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T16:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/orbital-sciences-launches-cygnus-to-iss-with-28-cubesats-for-planet-labs\/"},"modified":"2014-07-15T00:46:41","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T16:46:41","slug":"orbital-sciences-launches-cygnus-to-iss-with-28-cubesats-for-planet-labs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/orbital-sciences-launches-cygnus-to-iss-with-28-cubesats-for-planet-labs\/","title":{"rendered":"Orbital Sciences Launches Cygnus to ISS with 28 CubeSats for Planet Labs"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 07-14-2014] On Sunday July 13, 2014 <b>Orbital Sciences <\/b>completed the second resupply mission for the International Space Station as part of the company\u2019s $1.9-billion Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) contract with <b>NASA<\/b>. Orbital\u2019s Antares rocket lofted the Cygnus cargo spacecraft, which is expected to berth with the ISS on July 16.<\/p>\n<p>Besides carrying 1493.8 kg (3293 pounds) of supplies to the ISS crew, Cygnus will deliver 28 CubeSats known as Doves for satellite imagery company <b>Planet Labs<\/b>. The first Orbital resupply mission, Orb 1, carried Flock 1, which was also comprised of 28 CubeSats. The second group is known as Flock 1b.<\/p>\n<p>The Orb 2 mission is also carrying TechEdSat 4, which is part of a larger study to return small payloads in a temperature- and pressure-controlled environment from the space station. Additionally, 15 student experiments will be brought to the ISS with the support of <b>NanoRacks <\/b>to study a variety of subjects, including the effect of microgravity on oxidation, and the production of penicillin in space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 07-14-2014] On Sunday July 13, 2014 Orbital Sciences completed the second resupply mission for the International Space Station as part of the company\u2019s $1.9-billion Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) contract with NASA. Orbital\u2019s Antares rocket lofted the Cygnus cargo spacecraft, which is expected to berth with the ISS on July 16. Besides carrying 1493.8 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76931,"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-76930","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\/76930"}],"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=76930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}