Antares 230 | Cygnus CRS OA-5 (S.S. Alan Poindexter)

Antares 230 | Cygnus CRS OA-5 (S.S. Alan Poindexter)

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Wallops Island, Virginia, USA

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Orbital ATK

Orbital ATK Inc. was an American aerospace manufacturer and defense industry company. It was formed in 2015 from the merger of Orbital Sciences Corporation and parts of Alliant Techsystems. Orbital ATK was purchased by Northrop Grumman in 2018.

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Cygnus CRS OA-5 (S.S. Alan Poindexter)

This is the seventh flight of the Orbital ATK's unmanned resupply spacecraft Cygnus and its sixth flight to the International Space Station under the Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA. Orbital ATK named the vehicle after astronaut Alan Poindexter who was the commander of STS-131.

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Cygnus CRS OA-5


Serial Unknown

Launch Crew Count 0

Status Single Use

Landing Time 2016-11-27T23:36:00+0000


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Antares 230


Height 42.50 Meters

Max Stages 3

Mass To GTO 0 kg

Liftoff Thrust 3844 kN

Diameter 3.90 Meters

Mass To LEO 7800 kg

Liftoff Mass 286 Tonnes


Launch Success 5

Consecutive Success 5

Maiden Flight 2016-10-17

Launch Failures 0


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International Space Station

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.

Commercial Resupply Services

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.

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