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Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX operates from many pads, on the East Coast of the US they operate from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and historic LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. They also operate from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, usually for polar launches. Another launch site is being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.
This is the 20th flight of the Orbital ATK's uncrewed resupply spacecraft Cygnus and its 19th 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 On-Going
Height 70.00 Meters
Max Stages 2
Mass To GTO 8300 kg
Liftoff Thrust 7607 kN
Diameter 3.65 Meters
Mass To LEO 22800 kg
Liftoff Mass 549 Tonnes
Launch Success 310
Consecutive Success 13
Maiden Flight 2018-05-11
Launch Failures 1
Serial B1077
Status active
Flight Proven Yes
Flights 14
Landing Attempt Yes
Landing Success Yes
Type RTLS
Location LZ-1
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-01-30T20:35:22+0000
Launch success.
hitura-nobad
2024-01-30T17:07:47+0000
Liftoff
LL2
2024-01-30T16:49:36+0000
Livestream has started
hitura-nobad
2024-01-29T20:09:22+0000
Weather 95% GO
SwGustav
2024-01-27T01:02:01+0000
Delayed by a day
Nosu
2024-01-18T07:43:41+0000
Adding seconds to T-0
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-01-11T16:16:00+0000
Tweaked T-0.
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-01-07T09:55:28+0000
Updated T-0.
Cosmic_Penguin
2023-12-31T07:01:48+0000
Added launch time.
hitura-nobad
2023-12-06T21:05:14+0000
NET Jan 29
Cosmic_Penguin
2023-10-25T18:30:10+0000
NET Late January 2024.
Nosu
2023-10-25T06:02:37+0000
Delayed to early 2024
Nosu
2023-08-21T06:15:51+0000
Targeting December 11
hitura-nobad
2023-07-25T17:18:39+0000
Net December and Pad updated
Nosu
2023-04-01T17:55:00+0000
NET November
Nosu
2023-02-17T13:31:51+0000
NET October
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-20 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 installation of the Northrop Grumman NG-20 Cygnus spacecraft to the Nadir port of the Unity Module of the International Space Station.
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NASA TV will livestream the rendezvous and capture of Northrop Grumman's NG-20 Cygnus cargo craft to the International Space Station.
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NASA will host a Prelaunch media teleconference with the following participants: - Dina Contella, operations integration manager, NASA’s International Space Station Program - Meghan Everett, deputy program scientist, NASA’s International Space Station Program - William Gerstenmaier, vice president, Build and Flight Reliability, SpaceX - Cyrus Dhalla, vice president and general manager, tactical space systems, Northrop Grumman - Arlena Moses, launch weather officer, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s 45th Weather Squadron
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The International Space Station National Lab will host a science webinar with the following participants: - Lisa Carnell, director, NASA’s Biological and Physical Sciences Division - Meg Everett, deputy scientist, NASA’s International Space Station Program - Shane Farritor, co-founder and chief scientific officer, Virtual Incision Corporation - Mark Fernandez, principal investigator of Spaceborne Computer-2, Hewlett Packard Enterprise - Mary Murphy, director of programs, Nanoracks - Michael Roberts, chief scientific officer, International Space Station National Lab - Nicole Wagner, chief executive officer, LambdaVision - Abba Zubair, medical director, Mayo Clinic
2024-07-08T21:29:06+0000
NASA
2024-03-03T21:41:04+0000
NASASpaceflight
2024-02-03T06:53:38+0000
European Spaceflight
2024-01-31T16:00:00+0000
Space Scout
2024-01-30T20:46:35+0000
Teslarati
2024-01-30T17:49:00+0000
SpaceNews
2024-01-30T00:04:19+0000
NASASpaceflight
2024-01-28T00:18:04+0000
SpaceNews
2024-01-26T19:00:00+0000
Space Scout
2024-01-22T21:38:14+0000
NASASpaceflight