On August 10, the S.S. Ellison Onizuka launched on an Antares 230+ rocket from Pad-0A at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility. The NG-16 countdown was hampered with helium and ground computer issues leading up to the final T0 mark.
But teams at Northrop Grumman were able to launch at the end of the launch window at 18:01:05 EDT, or 22:01:05 UTC, with Antares performing a better-than-expected ascent to orbit for the Cygnus spacecraft.
After a 36 hour phasing profile, the S.S. Ellison Onizuka cargo ship, part of Northrop…
Following the postponement of the Zhongxing-12 (ChinaSat) communications satellite launch, the Chinese kept up their…
Amazon’s announcement of three launch contracts totaling 83 flights split across Ariane 6, Vulcan, and…
Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus NG-17 spacecraft has arrived at the International Space Station on Monday, less…
The ISS, now in its twenty-first year of continuous human occupation, has had a busy…
November was an eventful month for the International Space Station (ISS) and its crew members.…
Northrop Grumman launched the NG-16 Cygnus cargo vehicle, the S.S. Ellison Onizuka, to the International…
The SpaceX Crew-1 Dragon Resilience performed a relocation to a new docking port aboard the…
Closing a four month gap since the previous orbital launch, China successfully launched the Yaogan…
Another super-secretive launch took place on Sunday from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center as China…
