Booked for a three month stay, Orbital ATK’s Cygnus OA-7 cargo spacecraft arrived at the International Space Station on Saturday, hauling nearly 3,500 Kilograms of supplies to the orbiting laboratory to support dozens of scientific experiments, ISS maintenance, and an unprecedented CubeSat constellation for the exploration of a largely unknown region of Earth’s atmosphere.
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Orbital ATK’s Cygnus OA-7 spacecraft is ready for its approach to the International Space Station on Saturday to deliver critical supplies and experiments to the orbiting laboratory.
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A critical science-enabling cargo delivery to the International Space Station was successfully sent on its way on Tuesday when a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket rumbled away from Florida’s Cape Canaveral to place the Cygnus cargo spacecraft into orbit.
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A United Launch Alliance Atlas V 401 rocket lifts of from Cape Canaveral’s Space Launch Complex 41 on April 18, 2017 with the S.S. John Glenn, Orbital ATK’s seventh operational Cygnus cargo spacecraft
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A critical science-enabling cargo delivery to the International Space Station was successfully sent on its way on Tuesday when a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket rumbled away from Florida’s Cape Canaveral to place the Cygnus cargo spacecraft into orbit.
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An Atlas V rocket is standing tall atop its launch pad at Florida’s Space Coast in preparation for liftoff on Tuesday with Orbital ATK’s Cygnus cargo ship
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A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket rolls out to the launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 41 on April 17, 2017 in preparation for the launch of Orbital ATK’s seventh operational Cygnus resupply craft
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The repeatedly-delayed launch of Orbital ATK’s seventh operational Cygnus resupply mission to the International Space Station has been cemented for next Tuesday after launch services provider United Launch Alliance completed a clean Launch Readiness Review
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Orbital ATK on Monday announced major progress on the company’s Next Generation Launch Vehicle (NGL), outlining design details of an intermediate- and large-class space launch vehicle capable of serving the commercial and government launch market.
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Orbital ATK has begun the process of reviving Cape Canaveral’s Launch Complex 46 by stacking three Peacekeeper missile stages to demonstrate techniques for the assembly of the first Minotaur IV rocket to launch from the Cape this summer with an experimental satellite for the U.S. Air Force.
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The year 2016 saw a total of 85 known orbital launch attempts operated by eight nations from space ports in
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Eight miniature hurricane research satellites soared into orbit on Thursday atop a Pegasus XL rocket dropped from a modified Jumbo Jet over the Atlantic Ocean, beginning a mission to peer into the most dynamic regions of the world’s cyclones to improve storm forecasting.
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Eight miniature hurricane research satellites soared into orbit on Thursday atop a Pegasus XL rocket dropped from a modified Jumbo
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The launch of NASA’s CYGNSS hurricane science mission had to be aborted on Monday due to a range of issues cropping up during an airborne countdown aboard the L-1011 aircraft carrying the Pegasus rocket toward an intended drop point over the Atlantic Ocean.
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Dropped from a modified Jumbo Jet, a Pegasus XL rocket will power into orbit with eight miniature satellites on Monday, setting out to measure winds over the world’s oceans and peer into the inside of Hurricanes to reveal processes hidden from view by intense bands of rain.
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The Cygnus OA-5 cargo craft closed out another very successful mission Sunday night via a targeted destructive re-entry over the Pacific Ocean, capping a flight of 41 days
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The Cygnus OA-5 cargo craft departed the International Space Station on Monday after a month-long cargo delivery mission, heading off on a one-week free flight to release a series of small satellites and perform the second Spacecraft Fire Experiment ahead of a planned end of mission date on November 27.
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