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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The Orbital ATK Cygnus arrived at the International Space Station on Sunday, being captured by the Station’s robotic arm for a month-long stay to deliver important cargo to the orbiting laboratory.
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Orbital ATK’s Cygnus spacecraft has entered an orbital parking spot where it is standing by to give the right of way to the inbound Soyuz crew vehicle before it will make its close rendezvous with the Space Station on Sunday to be captured by the Station’s robotic arm.
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Orbital ATK’s Antares rocket made a triumphant return on Monday, rumbling into the night skies over Wallops Island to lift the Cygnus OA-5 cargo spacecraft into orbit to deliver supplies to the International Space Station.
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Orbital ATK’s Antares 230 rocket thundered off from Wallops Island after sunset on Monday, marking its return to flight after a stand-down of two years following a dramatic 2014 launch failure.
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Orbital ATK’s Antares 230 rocket thundered off from Wallops Island after sunset on Monday, marking its return to flight after a stand-down of two years following a dramatic 2014 launch failure.
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The launch of Orbital ATK’s long-awaited Antares Return to Flight mission to restore the company’s cargo launch capability to the Space Station was postponed on Sunday due to an uncooperative cable within the rocket’s ground support equipment, requiring replacement ahead of the next launch attempt on Monday at 23:40 UTC.
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A flight-ready Antares rocket was rolled to Pad 0A at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport this week for the first time in nearly two years in preparation to restore Orbital ATK’s cargo launch capability to the International Space Station Sunday night.
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Orbital ATK rolls out its upgraded Antares Rocket to finally return to flight operations after a two-year stand-down following the October 2014 launch failure. Outfitted with new engines, Antares will carry into orbit the Cygnus cargo craft SS Alan Poindexter for a month-long stay at the International Space Station.
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The long-awaited Return to Flight mission of Orbital ATK’s Antares rocket with the company’s Cygnus cargo craft has been re-aligned for a Sunday night liftoff after a long path to ready the revamped booster for liftoff following a dramatic launch failure nearly two years ago.
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The Orbital ATK Cygnus OA-5 spacecraft, the SS Alan Poindexter, prepares for liftoff atop the Return to Flight Mission of the company’s Antares launch vehicle after a two-year stand-down to re-fit the rocket with new engines following a dramatic launch failure in 2014.
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