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This is the demonstration mission under NASA's Commercial Resupply Service agreement with Orbital Sciences. The unmanned Cygnus cargo vessel delivered approximately 700kg of supplies and science experiments to the International Space Station.
Serial Unknown
Launch Crew Count 0
Status Single Use
Landing Time 2013-10-23T18:16:00+0000
Height 40.50 Meters
Max Stages 2
Mass To GTO 0 kg
Liftoff Thrust 3265 kN
Diameter 3.90 Meters
Mass To LEO 4450 kg
Liftoff Mass 276 Tonnes
Launch Success 2
Consecutive Success 2
Maiden Flight 2013-04-21
Launch Failures 0
The International Space Station programme is tied together by a complex set of legal, political and financial agreements between the sixteen nations involved in the project, governing ownership of the various components, rights to crewing and utilization, and responsibilities for crew rotation and resupply of the International Space Station. It was conceived in 1984 by President Ronald Reagan, during the Space Station Freedom project as it was originally called.