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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 21st flight of the Orbital ATK's uncrewed resupply spacecraft Cygnus and its 20th 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 N/A
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 300
Consecutive Success 3
Maiden Flight 2018-05-11
Launch Failures 1
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-07-27T02:51:02+0000
GO for launch (11:30 mark of video)
Jay
2024-07-24T17:43:50+0000
Targeting August 3rd, 15:28:51 UTC per ISS OEM data.
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-07-24T03:09:33+0000
NET early August.
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-07-02T17:02:10+0000
Adding launch date and time.
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-03-24T00:13:27+0000
NET August 2024. (page SO-26)
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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NASA TV will livestream the installation of the Northrop Grumman NG-21 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-21 Cygnus cargo craft to the International Space Station.
2024-07-23T14:00:00+0000
NASA
2024-07-01T15:09:57+0000
NASA