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This is the 18th flight of the Orbital ATK's uncrewed resupply spacecraft Cygnus and its 17th flight to the International Space Station under the Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA.
Serial Unknown
Launch Crew Count 0
Status Single Use
Landing Time 2023-04-22T03:12:00+0000
Height 42.50 Meters
Max Stages 3
Mass To GTO 0 kg
Liftoff Thrust 3844 kN
Diameter 3.90 Meters
Mass To LEO 8200 kg
Liftoff Mass 286 Tonnes
Launch Success 8
Consecutive Success 8
Maiden Flight 2019-11-02
Launch Failures 0
Nosu
2022-11-07T14:38:12+0000
Successful launch of the Cygnus NG-18 resupply cargo spacecraft towards the International Space Station
Cosmic_Penguin
2022-11-07T10:33:25+0000
Liftoff
Cosmic_Penguin
2022-11-07T10:14:24+0000
Extended hold at L-11 minutes
Nosu
2022-11-07T10:00:58+0000
Webcast live
Jay
2022-11-07T01:58:21+0000
Adding launch window, weather 70% as of this morning
Nosu
2022-11-06T10:44:11+0000
Adjusting T-0 for next attempt
Nosu
2022-11-06T10:41:34+0000
Scrub. Setting TBC for a 24 hours recycle
Nosu
2022-11-06T10:37:33+0000
Five minute delay
Nosu
2022-11-06T10:30:34+0000
Webcast live
SwGustav
2022-10-03T21:48:34+0000
Updating the spacecraft's name
Cosmic_Penguin
2022-09-28T16:00:51+0000
Added launch time
Nosu
2022-09-23T12:29:59+0000
NET November 6
Nosu
2022-07-22T15:13:07+0000
Targeting October 15
Jay
2022-07-14T00:28:23+0000
Targeting October per CRS-25 pre-launch press briefing
SwGustav
2022-06-10T10:13:32+0000
NET Fall
Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) are a series of flights awarded by NASA for the delivery of cargo and supplies to the International Space Station.The first CRS contracts were signed in 2008 and awarded $1.6 billion to SpaceX for twelve cargo Dragon and $1.9 billion to Orbital Sciences for eight Cygnus flights, covering deliveries to 2016. The Falcon 9 and Antares rockets were also developed under the CRS program to deliver cargo spacecraft to the ISS.
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.
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The Northrop Grumman NG-18 Cygnus will be unberthed from the ISS before initiating a destructive reentry into the Earth's atmosphere taking waste along with it.
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NASA TV will livestream the rendezvous and capture of Northrop Grumman's NG-18 Cygnus cargo craft to the International Space Station.
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NASA will hold a news conference ahead of the launch of the Cygnus NG-18 resupply mission to the International Space Station.
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NASA will host a media teleconference to discuss the next science investigations, technology demonstrations, crew supplies, and hardware bound for the International Space Station aboard Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus spacecraft on the company’s 18th commercial resupply mission for NASA.
2023-04-18T15:05:00+0000
NASA
2022-11-09T15:56:54+0000
Spaceflight Now
2022-11-09T13:29:16+0000
SpaceNews
2022-11-07T20:29:14+0000
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2022-11-07T11:19:14+0000
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2022-11-07T07:48:41+0000
NASASpaceflight
2022-11-07T00:39:13+0000
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2022-11-05T06:29:12+0000
Spaceflight Now
2022-10-28T15:09:00+0000
NASA
2022-10-19T20:28:00+0000
NASA
2022-09-28T14:40:00+0000
NASA