Tag: OA-7
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Video: Atlas/OA-7 pre-launch news briefing and what’s aboard
Watch the pre-launch news conference held Monday, April 17 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center to preview liftoff of the Orbital ATK commercial Cygnus OA-7 cargo ship aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket for the International Space Station. Briefing participants are: * Joel Montalbano, NASA’s deputy manager of the International Space Station program *…
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Photos: Atlas 5 rolled out with OA-7 Cygnus
The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket was transfered from its assembly building to the pad at Cape Canaveral’s Complex 41 today for Tuesday’s launch of a commercially-operated cargo ship to resupply the International Space Station. Liftoff is planned for 11:11 a.m. EDT (1511 GMT). The rocket was wheeled out aboard a mobile launcher platform,…
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Live coverage: Atlas 5 countdown journal and launch webcast
Live coverage of the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket flight to deploy the Orbital ATK Cygnus cargo ship bound for the International Space Station. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter. (Launch webcast begins at 10:00 a.m. EDT / 1400 GMT)
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NASA and ULA plan first-ever live 360 webcast of Atlas 5 launch
CAPE CANAVERAL — NASA and United Launch Alliance will offer the first-of-its-kind live webcast in 360 Virtual Reality format of Tuesday morning’s Atlas 5 rocket liftoff from Cape Canaveral with a space station cargo ship. As if you were standing at the launch pad, webcast watchers will be in control to pan and tilt their…
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Preview: Cygnus ship sending abundance of science to ISS
Inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at Kennedy Space Center, the Cygnus was tilted to the horizontal position for final stowage of cargo.Credit: NASA/Bill White CAPE CANAVERAL — Carrying more science research gear to the International Space Station than ever launched before by U.S. commercial logistics vehicles, the next Orbital ATK Cygnus freighter takes flight…
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Atlas 5 rocket aims for Tuesday morning launch of supplies to space station
The Atlas 5 will be rolled to the launch pad on Monday. Credit: United Launch Alliance CAPE CANAVERAL — Air Force meteorologists on this Good Friday have released their initial forecast for Tuesday’s launch of a cargo ship to the International Space Station, predicting favorable conditions to fly the Atlas 5 booster on a commercial…
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Videos: Atlas 5 rocket stacked to launch Cygnus
This is video footage documenting stacking activities for the two-stage United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket, standing 194 feet tall, to boost the commercial Orbital ATK Cygnus cargo freighter to the International Space Station. Activities occurred at Cape Canaveral’s Vertical Integration Facility. Liftoff is scheduled for April 18 at 11:11 a.m. EDT (1511 GMT). Video…
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Science: Cygnus to make science-enabling delivery to the space station
The Orbital ATK and NASA logos for the OA-7 Cygnus mission. Credit: Orbital ATK and NASA CAPE CANAVERAL — Loaded with investigations into chemotherapy drugs with reduced side effects and radiation detectors for homeland security, a plant-growing chamber to promote future food harvesting in space and a technology demonstration for sample-return capsules, a commercial Cygnus…
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Videos: Cygnus prepped for mission to space laboratory
This is video footage documenting preparations for the commercial Orbital ATK Cygnus cargo freighter to perform the OA-7 mission to the International Space Station. Activities occurred at the Kennedy Space Center’s Space Station Processing Facility and the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility. The craft will be boosted into orbit by a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5…
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Photos: Cygnus spacecraft readied for launch to International Space Station
These photographs span March 9 through the 17th as the news media got an up-close viewing of the Orbital ATK commercial Cygnus cargo ship at Kennedy Space Center’s Payload Hazardous Processing Facility, placement aboard a mobile transporter and delivery to the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket assembly building for hoisting and mating. Cygnus is…