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Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/185703.jpg)Northrop Grumman‏Подлинная учетная запись @northropgrumman (https://twitter.com/northropgrumman) 2 ч. назад (https://twitter.com/northropgrumman/status/1047891969320652801)

We are excited to announce that we are targeting November 15 for the launch of our NG-10 mission to the @Space_Station (https://twitter.com/Space_Station). The launch window will open at 4:49 a.m. EST/9:49 a.m. UTC. #NorthropGrumman (https://twitter.com/hashtag/NorthropGrumman?src=hash)

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Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/31159.jpg)NASA Wallops‏Подлинная учетная запись @NASA_Wallops (https://twitter.com/NASA_Wallops) 5 ч. назад (https://twitter.com/NASA_Wallops/status/1048226353139650560)

The @northropgrumman (https://twitter.com/northropgrumman) CRS-10 resupply mission to the @Space_Station (https://twitter.com/Space_Station) is currently scheduled to launch from Wallops Island, VA on Nov. 15. The launch window for the Antares rocket and #Cygnus (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cygnus?src=hash) cargo spacecraft opens at 4:49 a.m. EST.

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ЦитироватьOct. 17, 2018
MEDIA ADVISORY M18-153

NASA Invites Media to Northrop Grumman Cygnus Launch from Virginia

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Northrop Grumman's Antares rocket sits in the Horizontal Integration Facility at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility during preparation for the company's 10th commercial resupply services mission, currently scheduled for no earlier than Nov. 15, 2018.
Credits: Northrop Grumman

Media accreditation now is open for the launch from Virginia of Northrop Grumman's 10th commercial resupply services mission to deliver NASA science investigations, supplies and equipment to the International Space Station (https://www.nasa.gov/station) aboard its Cygnus spacecraft.

Northrop Grumman is targeting liftoff, on its Antares launch vehicle, no earlier than 4:49 a.m. EST Nov. 15 from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport's Pad-0A at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island.

Спойлер

Each resupply mission to the station delivers scientific investigations in the areas of biology and biotechnology, Earth and space science, physical sciences, and technology development and demonstrations.

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Northrop Grumman personnel load supplies and experiments into the Cygnus cargo spacecraft in the payload processing facility at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in preparation for the company's 10th commercial resupply services mission, currently scheduled for no earlier than Nov. 15, 2018.
Credits: NASA/Patrick Black

Highlights of space station research that will be facilitated by research aboard this Cygnus are:

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• An investigation into the complex process of cement solidification (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=7874) to explore how gravity levels like those on the Moon and Mars may potentially affect concrete hardening.
• Research to develop a mathematical model for how an astronaut's perception of motion (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=7484), body position and distance to objects changes in space.
• A test of the first integrated 3D printer and recycler (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=7321) to turn waste plastic materials into high-quality 3D-printer filament to create tools and materials, a key capability for future long-duration space missions beyond low-Earth orbit.
  

Included in the cargo are investigations that will enable U.S. National Laboratory research, which is managed by the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (https://www.iss-casis.org/). They include a physical sciences investigation to evaluate a method for producing fiber optic cable in space and astrophysics research to examine the formation of chondrules (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=7785), some of the oldest material in the solar system.

Cargo resupply from U.S. companies ensures a national capability to deliver critical science research to the space station, significantly increasing NASA's ability to conduct new investigations at the only laboratory in space.

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Last Updated: Oct. 17, 2018
Editor: Karen Northon

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/31159.jpg)NASA Wallops‏Подлинная учетная запись @NASA_Wallops (https://twitter.com/NASA_Wallops) 22 окт. (https://twitter.com/NASA_Wallops/status/1054437777331404801)

(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/125296.png) Earth now, (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/125535.png) space later. @northropgrumman (https://twitter.com/northropgrumman) is loading supplies and experiments into the soon-to-be named Cygnus cargo spacecraft. The CRS-10 mission is scheduled to launch to the @Space_Station (https://twitter.com/Space_Station) no earlier than Nov. 15.

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ЦитироватьStation Preps for Japan, US Ship Operations Next Month

Mark Garcia (https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/author/magarcia/)
Posted Oct 23, 2018 at 3:23 pm

The International Space Station (https://www.nasa.gov/station) is getting ready for Japanese and U.S. cargo ship operations next month. ...
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An American cargo ship is due to replenish the Expedition 57 (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition57/index.html) crew a few days after the HTV-7 leaves. Northrup Grumman's Cygnus space freighter will take a three-day trip in space before it is captured with the Canadarm2 and berthed to the Unity module. Cygnus will stay attached to the station for 86 days of cargo operations.

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/185703.jpg)Northrop Grumman‏Подлинная учетная запись @northropgrumman (https://twitter.com/northropgrumman) 16 ч. назад (https://twitter.com/northropgrumman/status/1054855491942342657)

Our NG-10 #Cygnus (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cygnus?src=hash) was mated at @NASA_Wallops (https://twitter.com/NASA_Wallops) over the weekend in preparation for the November 15 launch to @Space_Station (https://twitter.com/Space_Station). Stay tuned tomorrow for a closer look at the spacecraft and more information on the mission. #NorthropGrumman (https://twitter.com/hashtag/NorthropGrumman?src=hash)

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Inside Look: Our NG-10 #Cygnus (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cygnus?src=hash) is mated at @NASA_Wallops (https://twitter.com/NASA_Wallops)! Next stop is the island's fueling facility as we progress toward launch next month. Stay tuned for more info!

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Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/185703.jpg)Northrop Grumman‏Подлинная учетная запись @northropgrumman (https://twitter.com/northropgrumman) 6 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/northropgrumman/status/1055168550690848768)

We are thrilled to announce that the #Cygnus (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cygnus?src=hash) spacecraft for our 10th cargo resupply mission to the @Space_Station (https://twitter.com/Space_Station) is named in honor of John Young, accomplished naval officer, test pilot & @NASA (https://twitter.com/NASA) astronaut. #NorthropGrumman (https://twitter.com/hashtag/NorthropGrumman?src=hash)

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We are thrilled to announce that the #Cygnus (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cygnus?src=hash) spacecraft for our 10th cargo resupply mission to the @Space_Station (https://twitter.com/Space_Station) is named in honor of John Young, accomplished naval officer, test pilot & @NASA (https://twitter.com/NASA) astronaut. #NorthropGrumman (https://twitter.com/hashtag/NorthropGrumman?src=hash)
 

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ЦитироватьAntares Missions

Mission Update: NG-10 Space Station Cargo Resupply

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Launch Date: NET November 15, 2018; 4:49 a.m. EST

Launch Site: MARS Pad 0A, Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia

Mission Customer: NASA

Mission Update

Northrop Grumman's NG-10 mission is scheduled to launch aboard the company's Antares rocket from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility no earlier than November 15. The 5-minute launch window will open at 4:49 a.m. EST/8:49 a.m. UTC. The company's Cygnus spacecraft will deliver science experiments and essential supplies to the crew on board the International Space Station.

Additional launch information including a launch profile, mission description and fact sheets can be found below. Get live mission updates on our social media accounts: Twitter (https://twitter.com/northropgrumman) | Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/northropgrumman/) | Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/northropgrumman/)

About Antares

Designed to provide responsive and low-cost access to space, Antares is a two-stage vehicle (with optional third stage) that provides low-Earth orbit (LEO) launch capability for payloads weighing up to 8,000 kg. Internally funded by Northrop Grumman, Antares completed a risk reduction mission and a demonstration of commercial re-supply services for the International Space Station (ISS) under a NASA Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) agreement in 2013. Northrop Grumman commenced delivery of cargo to the ISS under the NASA Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) contract in 2014.

About Cygnus

Cargo is delivered to the station using Northrop Grumman's Cygnus spacecraft. The Cygnus spacecraft consists of two modules: the Service Module (SM) which incorporates the avionics, propulsion and power systems from Northrop Grumman's flight proven LEOStar and GEOStar spacecraft buses; and the Pressurized Cargo Module (PCM) which carries the crew supplies, spares and scientific experiments. The SM is integrated and tested at Northrop Grumman's Dulles, Virginia satellite manufacturing facility. The PCM is supplied by Thales Alenia Space and is produced in Turin Italy.

More Information

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• Cygnus Fact Sheet (http://www.northropgrumman.com/Capabilities/CRS/Documents/Cygnus_Factsheet.pdf)
• Commercial Resupply Services Fact Sheet (http://www.northropgrumman.com/Capabilities/CRS/Documents/CRS_Factsheet.pdf)
• Antares Fact Sheet (http://www.northropgrumman.com/Capabilities/Antares/Documents/Antares_Factsheet.pdf)
• NG-10 Fact Sheet (http://www.northropgrumman.com/Capabilities/Antares/Documents/NG-10_Factsheet.pdf)
  

ЦитироватьU.S., Russian Spaceships Line Up for Launch After Japanese Vessel Departs

Mark Garcia (https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/author/magarcia/)
Posted Nov 8, 2018 at 3:27 pm

The Expedition 57 (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition57/index.html) crew said farewell to a Japanese resupply ship Wednesday and is getting ready to welcome U.S. and Russian space freighters in less than two weeks. The trio first practiced International Space Station (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html) emergency procedures today then went on to space research and robotics training.

The U.S. company Northrop Grumman is getting its 10th Cygnus cargo craft packed and ready for launch atop an Antares rocket Nov. 15 at 4:49 a.m. EST (https://www.nasa.gov/launchschedule/). Russia will launch its 71st station resupply mission aboard a Progress spaceship the next day at 1:14 p.m.

Both resupply ships are due to arrive at the station Sunday Nov. 18 just 10 hours apart. The Cygnus will get there first following its head start. Commander Alexander Gerst (http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Human_Spaceflight/Astronauts/Alexander_Gerst) assisted by Flight Engineer Serena Auñón-Chancellor (https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/serena-m-aunon-chancellor) will capture the American vessel with the Canadarm2 robotic arm at 4:35 a.m. A few hours later, cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev (http://www.gctc.ru/main.php?id=201) will monitor the approach and automated docking of the Russian Progress 71 cargo craft to the Zvezda service module at 2:30 p.m.
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Afterward, Gerst and Serena partnered up and reviewed next Sunday's Cygnus approach and rendezvous procedures. Gerst will command the Canadarm2 to reach out and grapple Cygnus as Serena monitors the spaceship's telemetry and data.

ЦитироватьHow to View Nov. 15 NG-10 Antares Launch

Rob Garner (https://blogs.nasa.gov/northropgrumman/author/rcgarner/)
Posted Nov 9, 2018 at 2:13 pm

NASA's Wallops Flight Facility and Virginia's Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport are set to support the launch of Northrop Grumman's Antares rocket, carrying the company's Cygnus cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station at 4:49 a.m. EST, Nov. 15.

The launch may be visible, weather permitting, to residents up and down the East Coast of the United States.

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The launch of Northrop Grumman's Antares rocket from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, scheduled for 4:49 a.m. EST on Nov, 15, 2018, may be visible throughout the Mid-Atlantic, depending on local conditions. Credit: NASA/Stephan Wlodarczyk

When accessed from a smartphone browser, the Wallops Mission Status Center (https://sites.wff.nasa.gov/wmsc/) website can provide specific viewing information based on your location. Live coverage of the mission is scheduled to begin at 10:30 p.m. Nov. 14 on the Wallops video and audio Ustream (http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasa-tv-wallops) sites.

Live coverage of the mission is scheduled to begin at 10:30 p.m. EST Nov. 14 on the Wallops video and audio Ustream (http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasa-tv-wallops) sites. Launch coverage and commentary on NASA TV (http://www.nasa.gov/live) will begin at 4:15 a.m. EST Nov. 15.

Full coverage details (https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/nasa-tv-coverage-set-for-november-cygnus-launch-to-the-international-space-station)

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Guidance from NASA on drone use for viewing Wallops launches (https://www.nasa.gov/wallops/2018/feature/nasa-offers-guidance-for-drone-use-viewing-antares-launch)
Guidance for mariners (PDF) (https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/antares_ng-10_pao_notmar.pdf)
Guidance for pilots (PDF) (https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/notice_to_pilots_0.pdf)

Under NASA's Commercial Resupply Services contract, Cygnus will carry about 7,200 pounds of crew supplies and hardware to the space station, including science and research in support of dozens of research investigations.

Included in the cargo are investigations that will enable U.S. National Laboratory research, which is managed by the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space. They include a physical sciences investigation to evaluate a method for producing fiber optic cable in space and astrophysics research to examine the formation of chondrules, some of the oldest material in the solar system.

ЦитироватьNov. 10, 2018

NASA TV Coverage Set for November Cygnus Launch to the International Space Station

NASA commercial cargo provider Northrop Grumman is scheduled to launch its 10th resupply mission to the International Space Station (http://www.nasa.gov/station) at 4:49 a.m. EST Thursday, Nov. 15, from the agency's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Live launch coverage will begin at 4:15 a.m. on NASA Television and the agency's website (https://www.nasa.gov/live).

NASA TV will air two prelaunch briefings for the mission. At 2 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 13, scientists and researchers will discuss some of the investigations and technology demonstrations to be delivered to the station. Mission managers will provide an overview and status of launch operations at 11 a.m., Wednesday, Nov. 14.

The Cygnus cargo spacecraft will launch on Northrop Grumman's Antares rocket from Pad 0A of Virginia Space's Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, located at Wallops. Following launch on Nov. 15, NASA TV coverage of the spacecraft's solar array deployment will begin at 5:45 a.m., and a post-launch news briefing will held at approximately 7 a.m.

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The Northrop Grumman Antares rocket for the CRS-10 mission is seen on the left being integrated in the Horizontal Integration Facility at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia's Eastern Shore. The CRS-10 Cygnus spacecraft is shown in the middle of the facilit,y and the Antares CRS-11 rocket, scheduled for launch in spring 2019, is on the right.
Credits: NASA's Wallops Flight Facility/Patrick Black

Under NASA's Commercial Resupply Services contract, Cygnus will carry about 7,500 pounds of crew supplies and hardware to the space station, including science and research in support of dozens of research investigations.

Highlights of space station research (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/index.html) that will be facilitated by investigations aboard this Cygnus are:

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• An investigation into the complex process of cement solidification (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=7874) to explore how gravity levels like those on the Moon and Mars may potentially affect concrete hardening.
• Research to develop a mathematical model for how an astronaut's perception of motion (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=7484), body position and distance to objects changes in space.
• A test of the first integrated 3D printer and recycler (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=7321) to turn waste plastic materials into high-quality 3D-printer filament to create tools and materials, a key capability for future long-duration space missions beyond low-Earth orbit.
  

Included in the cargo are investigations that will enable U.S. National Laboratory research, which is managed by the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (https://www.iss-casis.org/). They include an investigation to evaluate growth of protein crystals  (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=7855)implicated in Parkinson's disease and astrophysics research to examine the formation of chondrules (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=7785), some of the oldest material in the solar system.

When Cygnus arrives to the space station, on Sunday, Nov. 18, Expedition 57 Flight Engineer Serena Auñón-Chancellor of NASA will grapple the spacecraft at about 4:35 a.m., backed up by Alexander Gerst of ESA (European Space Agency), who will monitor Cygnus systems during its approach for capture. They will use the space station's robotic arm to take hold of the Cygnus, dubbed the SS John Young. After Cygnus' capture, ground controllers will command the station's arm to rotate and install it on the bottom of the station's Unity module. NASA TV coverage of rendezvous and capture will begin at 3 a.m., and coverage of installation will begin at 6:15 a.m.

Cygnus is scheduled to remain at the space station until Feb. 12, 2019, when the spacecraft will depart the station and deploy several CubeSats before its fiery reentry into Earth's atmosphere as it disposes of several tons of trash.

If the launch does not occur on Thursday, Nov. 15, the next launch opportunity is 4:27 a.m. Friday, Nov. 16, with NASA TV coverage starting at 4 a.m.

This Cygnus spacecraft is named in honor of the former astronaut and U.S. Navy officer John Young. As a NASA astronaut, Young logged 835 hours in space participating in six missions: Gemini 3 and 10, Apollo 10 and 16, and STS-1 and 9.

WHAT'S ON BOARD SCIENCE BRIEFING ON NASA TV

Tuesday, Nov. 13 (L-2 day): A science, research and technology briefing will be held at the NASA Visitor Center auditorium at 2 p.m. NASA Television will provide live coverage, as well as streaming Internet coverage.

Participants will include:    

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• Tara Ruttley, associate chief scientist for Microgravity Research in NASA's Office of the Chief Scientist
• Diane Risdon, In-Space Manufacturing Refabricator project lead at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center
• Liz Warren, associate program scientist for the station's National Lab (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/nlab/index.html)
• Allison Porter, flight mission manager at Tethers Unlimited
• Michelle Lucas, founder and president of Higher Orbits
• Student researchers with Higher Orbits
  

PRELAUNCH NEWS CONFERENCE ON NASA TV

Wednesday, Nov. 14 (L-1 day): A prelaunch status briefing will be held at Wallops NASA Visitor Center auditorium at 11 a.m. NASA TV will provide live coverage, as well as streaming Internet coverage.

Participants will be:

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• Joel Montalbano, International Space Station Program deputy manager at NASA's Johnson Space Center
• Frank DeMauro, vice president for Human Space Systems and Logistics at Northrop Grumman
• Kurt Eberly, Antares vice president at Northrop Grumman
• Tara Ruttley, associate chief scientist for Microgravity Research, Office of the Chief Scientist, NASA Headquarters
• Doug Voss, deputy chief, Range and Mission Management Office, Wallops Flight Facility
  

POST-LAUNCH NEWS CONFERENCE ON NASA TV

Thursday, Nov. 15: A post-launch news conference will occur at about 7 a.m and NASA Television will provide live coverage, as well as streaming Internet coverage.
Participants will be:

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• Joel Montalbano, International Space Station Program deputy manager at NASA's Johnson Space Center
• Frank DeMauro, vice president for Human Space Systems and Logistics at Northrop Grumman
• Kurt Eberly, Antares vice president at Northrop Grumman
  

NASA TV LAUNCH COVERAGE

Thursday, Nov. 15 (Launch day): NASA TV live coverage will begin at 4:15 a.m. EST. For NASA TV downlink information, schedules and links to streaming video, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/nasatv


IN-FLIGHT NASA TV COVERAGE

If launch occurs Nov. 15, NASA TV will provide live coverage of the arrival of the Cygnus cargo ship to the International Space Station. NASA TV will cover the rendezvous and grapple of Cygnus on Nov. 18 beginning at 3 a.m. EST with grapple taking place at approximately 4:35 a.m.  

NASA WEB PRELAUNCH AND LAUNCH COVERAGE

Prelaunch and launch day coverage of the Northrop Grumman CRS-10 flight will be available on the NASA website. Coverage will include live streaming beginning at 10:30 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 14, on the Wallops Ustream (http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasa-tv-wallops) site. Live coverage on the NASA website begins at 4:15 a.m. on launch day. Photos of the launch will be available shortly after liftoff. For questions about countdown coverage, contact Keith Koehler at 757-824-1579. You can follow countdown coverage on our launch blog at: https://blogs.nasa.gov/northropgrumman

Learn more about the Northrop Grumman CRS-10 mission by going to the mission home page at: https://www.nasa.gov/northropgrumman


Last Updated: Nov. 10, 2018
Editor: Rob Garner

ЦитироватьNov. 10, 2018
MEDIA ADVISORY M18-171

NASA TV Coverage Set for Nov. 15 Cygnus Launch to International Space Station

NASA's commercial partner Northrop Grumman (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/structure/launch/northrop-grumman.html) is scheduled to launch its Antares rocket, carrying the Cygnus cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html), at 4:49 a.m. EST Thursday, Nov. 15. The launch, as well as briefings preceding and following the launch, will air live on NASA Television and the agency's website (https://www.nasa.gov/live). 

Loaded with 7,500 pounds of research, crew supplies and hardware, this 10th commercial resupply mission for Northrop Grumman will launch from Virginia Space's Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility (https://www.nasa.gov/centers/wallops/home).

About 70 minutes after launch, an automated command will initiate deployment of the spacecraft's solar arrays. Full deployment will take approximately 30 minutes.

The Cygnus spacecraft, dubbed the SS John Young, will arrive at the space station Sunday, Nov. 18. At about 4:35 a.m., Expedition 57 Flight Engineer Serena Auñón-Chancellor of NASA will grapple the spacecraft using the station's robotic arm. She will be backed up by Alexander Gerst of ESA (European Space Agency), who will monitor Cygnus systems during its approach. After capture, ground controllers will command the robotic arm to rotate and install Cygnus on the bottom of the station's Unity module.

Complete coverage of launch activities is as follows:

Tuesday, Nov. 13:

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• 2 p.m. – What's on Board science briefing
• Tara Ruttley, associate chief scientist for Microgravity Research in NASA's Office of the Chief Scientist
• Diane Risdon, In-Space Manufacturing Refabricator project lead at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center
• Liz Warren, associate program scientist for the station's National Lab (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/nlab/index.html)
• Allison Porter, flight mission manager at Tethers Unlimited
• Michelle Lucas, founder and president of Higher Orbits
• Student researchers with Higher Orbits
• Siobhan Malany, founder and president of micro-gRx
  

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Wednesday, Nov. 14:

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• 11 a.m. – Prelaunch news conference
• Joel Montalbano, International Space Station Program deputy manager at NASA's Johnson Space Center
• Tara Ruttley
• Doug Voss, deputy chief of the Range and Mission Management Office at Wallops
• Frank DeMauro, vice president for Human Space Systems and Logistics at Northrop Grumman
• Kurt Eberly, Antares vice president at Northrop Grumman
  

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Thursday, Nov. 15:

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• 4:15 a.m. – Launch coverage begins
• 5:45 a.m. – Cygnus solar array deployment
• 7 a.m. – Postlaunch news conference
• Joel Montalbano
• Frank DeMauro
• Kurt Eberly
  

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Sunday, Nov. 18

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• 3 a.m. – Grapple of Cygnus with the space station's robotic arm
• 6:15 a.m. – Cygnus installation operations.
  

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The Cygnus spacecraft is scheduled to remain at the space station until Feb. 12, 2019, when it will depart, taking with it several tons of trash, and deploy several CubeSats before its fiery reentry into Earth's atmosphere.

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Last Updated: Nov. 10, 2018
Editor: Karen Northon

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186343.jpg)Chris G - NSF‏ @ChrisG_NSF (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF) 13:45 (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF/status/1062099091704963076) - 12 нояб. 2018 г.

Even though a strong frontal system is predicted to arrive at the @NASA_Wallops (https://twitter.com/NASA_Wallops) spaceport on Thursday morning, there is currently a 60% chance of GOOD weather for the #Cygnus (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cygnus?src=hash) and #Antares (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Antares?src=hash) launch at 04:49 EST (0949 UTC) Thursday morning to @Space_Station (https://twitter.com/Space_Station).

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Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/185703.jpg)Northrop Grumman‏Подлинная учетная запись @northropgrumman (https://twitter.com/northropgrumman) 9 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/northropgrumman/status/1062307260465115137)

Our NG-10 #Antares (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Antares?src=hash) rocket carrying the S.S. John Young #Cygnus (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cygnus?src=hash) has rolled to @VCSFA_MARS (https://twitter.com/VCSFA_MARS) Pad 0A at @NASA_Wallops (https://twitter.com/NASA_Wallops)! Launch scheduled for Thursday morning at 4:49 am ET (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/125513.png) #NorthropGrumman (https://twitter.com/hashtag/NorthropGrumman?src=hash)

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/31676.png)NASA HQ PHOTO‏Подлинная учетная запись @nasahqphoto (https://twitter.com/nasahqphoto) 5 ч. назад (https://twitter.com/nasahqphoto/status/1062236460915548160)

Check out pictures from a late night rollout of the @northropgrumman (https://twitter.com/northropgrumman) Antares to the pad: https://flic.kr/s/aHsmvNRnwB  (https://t.co/AhNhB52pad)

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Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/185703.jpg)Northrop Grumman‏Подлинная учетная запись @northropgrumman (https://twitter.com/northropgrumman) 23 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/northropgrumman/status/1062329231890366464)

Heads up East Coast! We are scheduled to launch our NG-10 #Cygnus (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cygnus?src=hash) aboard #Antares (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Antares?src=hash) from @nasawallops (https://twitter.com/NASAWallops) on Thursday, November 15! Take a look to find out when you'll be able to see the launch from your town. The five-minute launch window opens at 4:49 am EST. #NorthropGrumman (https://twitter.com/hashtag/NorthropGrumman?src=hash)

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/67649.jpg)Ken Kremer‏ @ken_kremer (https://twitter.com/ken_kremer) 55 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/ken_kremer/status/1062340663696613379)

2 Russian-built NPO Energomash #RD181 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/RD181?src=hash) engines at base @northropgrumman (https://twitter.com/northropgrumman) #Antares (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Antares?src=hash) rocket 1st stage to power #Cygnus (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cygnus?src=hash) #NG10 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/NG10?src=hash) cargo mission to @Space_Station (https://twitter.com/Space_Station) #ISS (https://twitter.com/hashtag/ISS?src=hash) Nov 15 for @NASA (https://twitter.com/NASA) -processing inside #HIF (https://twitter.com/hashtag/HIF?src=hash) @NASAWallops (https://twitter.com/NASAWallops). Now rolled 2 pad 0A!! Details my story/pics:https://kenkremer.blogspot.com/2018/11/upclose-with-antares-inside-northrop.html ... (https://t.co/CwMDDxb8XA)

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Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/185703.jpg)Northrop Grumman‏Подлинная учетная запись @northropgrumman (https://twitter.com/northropgrumman) 7 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/northropgrumman/status/1062355114122510336)

Heads up East Coast! We are scheduled to launch our NG-10 #Cygnus (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cygnus?src=hash) aboard #Antares (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Antares?src=hash) from @NASA_Wallops (https://twitter.com/NASA_Wallops) this Thursday, November 15! Take a look to find out when you'll be able to see the launch from your town. The five-minute launch window opens at 4:49 am EST.
#NorthropGrumman (https://twitter.com/hashtag/NorthropGrumman?src=hash)

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Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/31159.jpg)NASA Wallops‏Подлинная учетная запись @NASA_Wallops (https://twitter.com/NASA_Wallops) 5:17 (https://twitter.com/NASA_Wallops/status/1062333583451287552) - 13 нояб. 2018 г.

Take a ride with Antares as it travels to Pad-0A! This timelapse footage follows @northropgrumman (https://twitter.com/northropgrumman)'s rocket as it makes a mile-long journey from the Horizontal Integration Facility to the launch pad on a rainy Tuesday morning.

Video (https://twitter.com/i/videos/tweet/1062333583451287552) (0:49)
Antares' Journey to the Launch Pad
Antares is on the move! Destination: Launch Pad 0A on Wallops Island. The rocket moved out of the Horizontal Integration Facility early Tuesday morning.

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/185703.jpg)Northrop Grumman‏Подлинная учетная запись @northropgrumman (https://twitter.com/northropgrumman) 28 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/northropgrumman/status/1062359053081423873)

L-2 days and counting! Our NG-10 #Antares (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Antares?src=hash) went vertical on @VCSFA_MARS (https://twitter.com/VCSFA_MARS) Pad 0A at @NASA_Wallops (https://twitter.com/NASA_Wallops) early this morning. Antares is set to deliver our #Cygnus (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cygnus?src=hash) spacecraft to the International @Space_Station (https://twitter.com/Space_Station) with launch set for Thursday at 4:49 a.m. EST.
#NorthropGrumman (https://twitter.com/hashtag/NorthropGrumman?src=hash)

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ЦитироватьTime-lapse: NG-10 Antares Rolls to Launch Pad

NASAWallops (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiCvistzsGjOSixCrbba6jw)

Опубликовано: 13 нояб. 2018 г.

Northrop Grumman's Antares rocket with Cygnus cargo spacecraft aboard is now at Pad 0A of Virginia Space's Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, located at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility.

The Antares was rolled out of the Horizontal Integration Facility at Wallops late in the evening on Nov. 12, 2018.

NASA commercial cargo provider Northrop Grumman is scheduled to launch its NG-10 resupply mission to the International Space Station at 4:49 a.m. EST Thursday, Nov. 15.

Credit: NASA's Wallops Flight Facility/Patrick Black

ЦитироватьForecast for NG-10 Launch, 3 Days Out

Rob Garner (https://blogs.nasa.gov/northropgrumman/author/rcgarner/)
Posted Nov 12, 2018 at 5:06 pm

The three-days-out launch range forecast has been issued for Northrop Grumman's Antares rocket with Cygnus cargo spacecraft on the company's NG-10 resupply mission to the International Space Station, scheduled for 4:49 a.m EST on Nov. 15 from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia's Eastern Shore.

An area of low pressure is expected to develop and bring rain showers to the Southeastern United States on Wednesday. These showers will quickly progress to the northeast on Wednesday night into early Thursday, drawing very close to Wallops by the launch window early Thursday morning. The timing of these showers will be key for determining weather suitability for launch Thursday.

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The Cygnus spacecraft for the NG-10 mission, photographed in October at Wallops. Credits: NASA's Wallops Flight Facility/Patrick Black

The next launch range forecast will be issued Nov. 13.

The NG-10 mission's Cygnus spacecraft, dubbed the SS John Young, after NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy officer John Young (https://www.nasa.gov/wallops/2018/feature/cygnus-dedicated-to-astronaut-john-young), is loaded with 7,500 pounds of research, crew supplies and hardware.

Live coverage of the mission is scheduled to begin at 10:30 p.m. EST Nov. 14 on the Wallops video and audio Ustream (http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasa-tv-wallops) sites. Launch coverage and commentary on NASA TV (http://www.nasa.gov/live) will begin at 4:15 a.m. EST Nov. 15.

ЦитироватьAntares Rocket Arrives at Launch Pad

Rob Garner (https://blogs.nasa.gov/northropgrumman/author/rcgarner/)
Posted Nov 13, 2018 at 8:21 am

Northrop Grumman's Antares rocket with Cygnus cargo spacecraft aboard is now at Pad 0A of Virginia Space's Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, located at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility.

The Antares was rolled out of the Horizontal Integration Facility at Wallops late in the evening on Nov. 12.

NASA commercial cargo provider Northrop Grumman is scheduled to launch its NG-10 resupply mission to the International Space Station (http://www.nasa.gov/station) at 4:49 a.m. EST Thursday, Nov. 15.

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The NG-10 mission's Cygnus spacecraft, dubbed the SS John Young, after NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy officer John Young (https://www.nasa.gov/wallops/2018/feature/cygnus-dedicated-to-astronaut-john-young), is loaded with 7,500 pounds of research, crew supplies and hardware.

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Live coverage of the mission is scheduled to begin at 10:30 p.m. EST Nov. 14 on the Wallops video and audio Ustream (http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasa-tv-wallops) sites. Launch coverage and commentary on NASA TV (http://www.nasa.gov/live) will begin at 4:15 a.m. EST Nov. 15.

ЦитироватьL-2 Forecast: 30-Percent Favorable

Rob Garner (https://blogs.nasa.gov/northropgrumman/author/rcgarner/)
Posted Nov 13, 2018 at 10:41 am

The latest Wallops range forecast for the scheduled launch of Northrop Grumman's Antares rocket on Nov. 15 puts weather at 30-percent favorable. At this time, the main weather concerns for a Thursday morning launch are thick clouds, disturbed weather and low cloud ceilings.

An area of low pressure will quickly develop on Wednesday over the Deep South, bringing rain showers to the Southeastern United States during the day. These showers will progress to the northeast on Wednesday night into early Thursday, likely arriving in the Wallops area by the time of the launch window.

After the launch window, rain will become heavy at times with increasing winds during the day on Thursday. Windy conditions will continue through Friday, with winds diminishing Friday night.

The Antares, with its International Space Station-bound Cygnus cargo spacecraft, is scheduled for liftoff at 4:49 a.m. EST on Nov. 15 from Pad 0A of Virginia Space's Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, located at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia's Eastern Shore.

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/31159.jpg)NASA Wallops‏Подлинная учетная запись @NASA_Wallops (https://twitter.com/NASA_Wallops) 5 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/NASA_Wallops/status/1062410059177693184)

Antares is vertical on the launch pad, and we're getting ready to kick off our What's on Board briefing. Want to ask a question about the @northropgrumman (https://twitter.com/northropgrumman) CRS-10 mission cargo? Use #AskNASA (https://twitter.com/hashtag/AskNASA?src=hash) and tune in to NASA TV at 2 p.m. EST: http://nasa.gov/live  (https://t.co/i2EVk8aQn1).

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ЦитироватьU.S., Russian Rockets Preparing to Resupply Station This Weekend

Mark Garcia (https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/author/magarcia/)
Posted Nov 13, 2018 at 1:25 pm

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Northrop Grumman's Antares rocket carrying a Cygnus resupply spacecraft is seen on Pad-0A after being raised into a vertical position, Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018 at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.

A U.S. rocket stands at its launch pad at the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia counting down to a Thursday morning launch. On the other side of the world in Kazakhstan, a Russian rocket is being processed for its launch Friday afternoon. Both spaceships are hauling several tons of food, fuel, supplies and new science to resupply the Expedition 57 (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition57/index.html) crew aboard the International Space Station (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html).

First, Northrop Grumman's Cygnus space freighter is set to blastoff atop the Antares rocket Thursday at 4:49 a.m. EST (https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-tv-coverage-set-for-nov-15-cygnus-launch-to-international-space-station) fr om Virginia's Atlantic coast. Next, Russia will roll out its Progress 71 (71P) cargo craft for a launch Friday at 1:14 p.m. from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.

Cygnus will then lead the 71P on a dual journey to the orbital laboratory wh ere the two spaceships will arrive on Sunday just hours apart. Cygnus will get there first when Commander Alexander Gerst (http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Human_Spaceflight/Astronauts/Alexander_Gerst) assisted by Flight Engineer Serena Auñón-Chancellor (https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/serena-m-aunon-chancellor) captures the private cargo carrier at 4:35 a.m. with the Canadarm2 robotic arm. After some rest, cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev (http://www.gctc.ru/main.php?id=201) will monitor the automated docking of the 71P to the Zvezda service module's rear port at 2:30 p.m.

Gerst and Serena trained today for the robotic capture of Cygnus on Sunday reviewing approach and rendezvous procedures.
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Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/29262.jpg)Jeff Foust‏ @jeff_foust (https://twitter.com/jeff_foust) 7 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/1062431088117714945)

One key takeaway from the #NG10 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/NG10?src=hash) ISS science briefing this afternoon(beyond the experiments themselves): ISS utilization hasn't been adversely affected by the reduced ISS crew size. No changes to the investigations flying on this Cygnus or next month's Dragon.

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/29262.jpg)Jeff Foust‏ @jeff_foust (https://twitter.com/jeff_foust) 7 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/1062432218558140416)

That Cygnus launch is scheduled for Thursday morning at 4:49 am EST, but the forecast out at Wallops doesn't look promising. (At least it's not the wintry mix forecast for DC).

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Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/185703.jpg)Northrop Grumman‏Подлинная учетная запись @northropgrumman (https://twitter.com/northropgrumman) 10:51 (https://twitter.com/northropgrumman/status/1062417688444702720) - 13 нояб. 2018 г.

Following our NG-10 #Antares (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Antares?src=hash) launch of #Cygnus (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cygnus?src=hash) to the @Space_Station (https://twitter.com/Space_Station)? Keep an eye on our Flickr account for new images!

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ЦитироватьАмериканская ракета-носитель с грузовым кораблем "Сигнус" установлена на стартовой площадке в преддверии запуска к МКС (версия 2)
13.11.2018 23:19:24 (расширенная версия)

Вашингтон. 13 ноября. ИНТЕРФАКС - В преддверии предстоящего 15 ноября запуска к Международной космической станции (МКС) американская ракета-носитель "Антарес" (Antares) с грузовым космическим кораблем "Сигнус" (Cygnus) во вторник была установлена на стартовой площадке на космодроме Уоллопс, сообщило Национальное управление по аэронавтике и исследованию космического пространства США (НАСА).

Ранее специальный поезд доставил ракету из цеха горизонтальной сборки к расположенному в полутора километрах от него стартовому столу.

Космодром Уоллопс размещается на одноименном острове у атлантического побережья американского штата Вирджиния.

Запуск осуществляется в рамках коммерческого контракта НАСА с корпорацией "Нортроп Грумман", которой принадлежит автоматический грузовой космический корабль. "Сигнус" должен будет доставить на МКС около 3,4 тонн груза, в том числе продовольствие, а также оборудование и материалы для проведения десятков научных исследований. Это будет десятый полет американского космического грузовика данного типа к МКС, начиная с 2013 года.

ЦитироватьAntares rocket transferred to Virginia launch pad for station resupply flight
November 13, 2018 (https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/11/) | Stephen Clark (https://spaceflightnow.com/author/stephen-clark/)

A Northrop Grumman Antares rocket rolled out of its hangar Monday night, riding a self-propelled transporter for a mile-long trip to launch pad 0A on Wallops Island, Virginia, for a predawn liftoff Thursday with a Cygnus supply ship heading for the International Space Station.

But rainy weather and clouds at the launch base on Virginia's Eastern Shore could prevent a launch Thursday, with forecasters predicting a 70 percent probability of conditions violating the Antares rocket's launch criteria.

Liftoff of the two-stage Antares rocket is set for 4:49:38 a.m. EST (0949:38 GMT) fr om pad 0A at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, located at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility.

Weather conditions are not forecast to improve much for a backup launch opportunity available Friday, when meteorologists at Wallops predict a 65 percent chance of weather prohibiting liftoff, again due to clouds and an increasing chance of gusty winds.

"An area of low pressure will quickly develop Wednesday over the Deep South, bringing rain showers to the Southeastern United States during the day," the Wallops weather team wrote in a forecast issued Tuesday morning. "These showers will progress to the northeast on Wednesday night into early Thursday, likely arriving by our launch window on Thursday morning. This approaching front will bring thick clouds and a chance of rain by T-0.

"After the launch window, rain will become heavy at times with increasing winds during the day on Thursday," the forecast team wrote. "Windy conditions will continue through Friday, with winds diminishing Friday night."

Conditions for a launch attempt Saturday could be much improved, with only a 5 percent chance of weather violating a launch weather rule.

The Antares rocket emerged Monday night from the Horizontal Integration Facility on Wallops Island, and rode a multi-wheeled transporter along a rode leading south to launch pad 0A. The one-mile trip occurred in steady rainfall, and ground crews guided the rocket up the ramp to the launch mount at pad 0A, wh ere the Antares launcher was raised vertical around daybreak Tuesday.

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The Antares rocket emerges from Northrop Grumman's Horizontal Integration Facility on Wallops Island Monday night. Its two first stage RD-181 engines are visible in this view. Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky

Final connections between the Antares rocket's transporter-erector and the launch pad's power, data and propellant supplies were planned later Tuesday, followed by closeouts and testing in advance of the countdown set to begin late Wednesday night.

The rocket will launch with Northrop Grumman's Cygnus supply ship, christened the S.S. John Young in honor of the Apollo moonwalker and space shuttle commander who died in January.

Technicians finished loading equipment into the Cygnus spaceship's pressurized compartment the past few days, then installed the Antares rocket's nose cone over the spacecraft before Monday night's rollout.

The Cygnus spacecraft will carry about 7,500 pounds (3,400 kilograms) of supplies, experiments and hardware to the space station. The Antares rocket, powered by twin kerosene-fueled Russian-built RD-181 engines on the first stage and a solid-fueled U.S.-made upper stage, will deliver the cargo carrier to a preliminary orbit around nine minutes after liftoff.

Assuming the cargo ship takes off Thursday or Friday, it will arrive at the orbiting research complex Sunday around 4:35 a.m. EST (0935 GMT), when astronauts will grapple the free-flying spacecraft with the station's robotic arm.

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Northrop Grumman has named the Cygnus supply ship launching Thursday the S.S. John Young. Credit: Northrop Grumman

In addition to supplies of food and crew provisions, payloads stowed aboard the Cygnus spacecraft include a combination 3D printer and recycler built by Tethers Unlimited, a private company headquartered near Seattle. The device is designed to "turn waste plastic materials into high-quality 3D-printer filament to create tools and materials, a key capability for future long-duration space missions beyond low-Earth orbit," according to a NASA summary of the mission.

Other experiments aboard the cargo ship include an investigation into cement solidification in microgravity, and a study of how an astronaut's perception of motion, body position and distance to objects changes in space.

The upcoming mission will be the 11th launch of a Cygnus spacecraft carrying cargo to the International Space Station, including a test flight in 2013 and a failed Antares launch in 2014 that destroyed the supply ship seconds after liftoff.

The mission is designated NG-10, and it is the first Cygnus flight since Northrop Grumman acquired Orbital ATK, which developed and flew the previous cargo missions under an 11-launch contract with NASA valued at nearly $2.9 billion.

Starting with NG-12, set for launch in late 2019, Northrop Grumman will kick off a follow-on commercial resupply services contract, guaranteeing the company at least six additional flights through 2024.

NASA has a similar cargo transportation contract with SpaceX, and the space agency has awarded Sierra Nevada Corp. a resupply services deal for logistics deliveries and returns using the Dream Chaser spaceplane beginning in late 2020.

The Cygnus spacecraft launching Thursday will remain berthed at the space station until February, when it will depart and release several CubeSats from a NanoRacks deployer before re-entering Earth's atmosphere and burning up with several tons of trash packed by the station crew.

More photos of the Antares rocket's rainy rollout are posted below.

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Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186343.jpg)Chris G - NSF‏ @ChrisG_NSF (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF) 42 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF/status/1062455494542049281)

Both the #SpaceX (https://twitter.com/hashtag/SpaceX?src=hash) and #Antares (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Antares?src=hash) launches are being affected Thursday by the same frontal system currently moving its way across the U.S.

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ЦитироватьISS National Lab Northrop Grumman CRS-10 Science Overview

Center for the Advancement of Science In Space (CASIS) (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCezcn0GHbLgOkZ85oV5xqZA)

Опубликовано: 13 нояб. 2018 г.

The NG-10 commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station will send new research, sponsored by the ISS National Laboratory to our orbital laboratory. This mission includes investigations in life sciences such as study that will investigate a protein closely related to Parkinson's disease, to a variety of CubeSats developed by students.

ЦитироватьISS National Lab NG-10 Research Spotlight: Microfluidic Lab-on-a-chip

Center for the Advancement of Science In Space (CASIS) (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCezcn0GHbLgOkZ85oV5xqZA)

Опубликовано: 13 нояб. 2018 г.

The current high failure rate (more than 50%) of drugs in clinical trials has been linked, in part, to a lack of accurate preclinical testing. This project aims to expand use of Lab-on-a-Chip (a fully automated, multifunctional cell culture platform previously validated in bacterial and crystal growth studies) to study human skeletal muscle cell growth.

ЦитироватьAnimation of Canadarm2 catching a Cygnus resupply ship

Canadian Space Agency (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdNtqpHlU1pCaVy2wlzxHKQ)

Опубликовано: 13 нояб. 2018 г.

2018-11-13 - A computer-generated animation of Canadarm2 grappling and berthing Northrop Grumman's Cygnus, an unpiloted resupply ship. (Credit: Canadian Space Agency)

ЦитироватьAntares NG-10: What's On Board?

Rob Garner (https://blogs.nasa.gov/northropgrumman/author/rcgarner/)
Posted Nov 13, 2018 at 3:24 pm

Northrop Grumman's Cygnus cargo spacecraft is set to lift off aboard the company's Antares rocket on Thursday, Nov. 15 at 4:49 a.m. EST (9:49 a.m. UTC) from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia's Eastern Shore.

Under NASA's Commercial Resupply Services contract, Cygnus will carry about 7,500 pounds of crew supplies and hardware to the International Space Station, including science and research in support of dozens of research investigations.

Highlights of space station research (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/index.html) that will be facilitated by investigations aboard this Cygnus include:

A test of the first integrated 3D printer and recycler (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=7321) to turn waste plastic materials into high-quality 3D-printer filament to create tools and materials, a key capability for future long-duration space missions beyond low-Earth orbit.

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Dr. Allison Porter, flight missions manager at Tethers Unlimited Inc., with a mock-up of the Refabricator (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/centers/marshall/images/refabricator.html), a combination 3D printer and recycler, headed to the International Space Station aboard NG-10. In Porter's hand is a roll of 3D printer filament. Credit: NASA TV
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Made of flexible plastic, tissue chips have ports and channels to provide nutrients and oxygen to the cells inside them. Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center/Josh Valcarcel

A small device that contains human cells in a 3D matrix represents a giant leap in the ability of scientists to test how those cells respond to stresses, drugs and genetic changes. About the size of a thumb drive, the devices are known as tissue chips or organs on chips.

The Tissue Chips in Space (https://ncats.nih.gov/tissuechip/projects/space) initiative seeks to better understand the role of microgravity on human health and disease and to translate that understanding to improved human health on Earth.

Many of the changes in the human body caused by microgravity resemble the onset and progression of diseases associated with aging on Earth, such as bone and muscle loss. But the space-related changes occur much faster. That means scientists may be able to use tissue chips in space to model changes that might take months or years to happen on Earth.
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Higher Orbits' "Go For Launch" student program is supplying an experiment that focuses on the evaluation of self-healing materials in microgravity, the work of students Spencer Harris, George Tang, Ryan Ferzoco, Tarun Golla and Abby Maltese.

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An investigation into the complex process of cement solidification (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=7874) to explore how gravity levels like those on the Moon and Mars may potentially affect concrete hardening.
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Research to develop a mathematical model for how an astronaut's perception of motion (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=7484), body position and distance to objects changes in space.
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Included in the cargo are investigations that will enable U.S. National Laboratory research, which is managed by the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (https://www.iss-casis.org/). They include an investigation to evaluate growth of protein crystals  (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=7855)implicated in Parkinson's disease and astrophysics research to examine the formation of chondrules (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=7785), some of the oldest material in the solar system.


Additional science highlights (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/ng-10_research_highlights)

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Heads up! Tomorrow morning at 6:30 am EST we will bring you a live, behind the scenes look at our #Antares (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Antares?src=hash) rocket on the launch pad at @NASA_Wallops (https://twitter.com/NASA_Wallops). Tune in to our Facebook account to learn more about the mission!
#Cygnus (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cygnus?src=hash) #NorthropGrumman (https://twitter.com/hashtag/NorthropGrumman?src=hash) http://www.facebook.com/northropgrumman  (https://t.co/97vM4lkcdK)

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ЦитироватьBriefing Previews The Science Onboard Upcoming Space Station Supply Mission

NASA Video (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_aP7p621ATY_yAa8jMqUVA)

Опубликовано: 13 нояб. 2018 г.

A Nov. 13 news briefing at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, in Virginia previewed the science onboard commercial partner Northrop Grumman's Cygnus cargo spacecraft, which is targeted to launch from Wallops on the company's Antares rocket Nov. 15 to the International Space Station. The Cygnus will carry 7,500 pounds of research, crew supplies and hardware to the station. This will be Northrop Grumman's 10th commercial resupply mission to the space station.

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/31159.jpg)NASA Wallops‏Подлинная учетная запись @NASA_Wallops (https://twitter.com/NASA_Wallops) 56 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/NASA_Wallops/status/1062705821941940224)

Wallops is hosting a pre-launch press conference this morning airing on NASA TV in preparation for the upcoming @northropgrumman (https://twitter.com/northropgrumman) CRS-10 mission. Tune in on http://nasa.gov/live  (https://t.co/i2EVk8aQn1) at 11 a.m. and send in your questions using #AskNASA (https://twitter.com/hashtag/AskNASA?src=hash).

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Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/185703.jpg)Northrop Grumman‏Подлинная учетная запись @northropgrumman (https://twitter.com/northropgrumman) 8:01 (https://twitter.com/northropgrumman/status/1062737359429607425) - 14 нояб. 2018 г.

Given the forecasted weather conditions, @NASA (https://twitter.com/NASA) and #NorthropGrumman (https://twitter.com/hashtag/NorthropGrumman?src=hash) have decided to move the NG-10 #Antares (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Antares?src=hash) and #Cygnus (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cygnus?src=hash) launch one day to November 16 at 4:23 a.m. EST

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/185703.jpg)Northrop Grumman‏Подлинная учетная запись @northropgrumman (https://twitter.com/northropgrumman) 8:14 (https://twitter.com/northropgrumman/status/1062740568390930432) - 14 нояб. 2018 г.

We are now in final preparation for our NG-10 #Antares (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Antares?src=hash) #Cygnus (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cygnus?src=hash) launch and will pick up the count tomorrow night at 10:00 pm EST. The five-minute launch window will open on Friday, November 16 at 4:23 am EST.
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Once our NG-10 S.S. John Young #Cygnus (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cygnus?src=hash) competes its mission on board, it will deploy 3 cubesats both above and below the @Space_Station (https://twitter.com/Space_Station), a first for the spcecraft.
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Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/185703.jpg)Northrop Grumman‏Подлинная учетная запись @northropgrumman (https://twitter.com/northropgrumman) 8:28 (https://twitter.com/northropgrumman/status/1062744186871578629) - 14 нояб. 2018 г.

Fun Fact: #Cygnus (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cygnus?src=hash) is carrying fresh fruit and ice cream for astronauts on board @Space_Station (https://twitter.com/Space_Station).
#NorthropGrumman (https://twitter.com/hashtag/NorthropGrumman?src=hash)

ЦитироватьNASA перенесла запуск к МКС грузовика Cygnus
19:24 14.11.2018

ВАШИНГТОН, 14 ноя – РИА Новости. Запуск грузового корабля Cygnus на Международную космическую станцию (МКС) переносится на сутки из-за неблагоприятных погодных условий, сообщили в НАСА в среду.

"Погода требует отложить старт на 24 часа", — сообщил на брифинге представитель НАСА Джоел Монталбано. Ранее планировалось, что старт грузового корабля с космодрома Валлопс в Виргинии состоится в четверг в 12.49 мск. Из-за неблагоприятной погоды, запуск грузового корабля на ракете-носителе Antares переносится на пятницу.

По словам представителя НАСА, следующий американский грузовой полет к МКС намечен на 4 декабря, его совершит корабль Dragon, принадлежащий компании SpaceX.

Cygnus должен доставить на орбиту 3,4 тонны груза, в том числе предметы первой необходимости, материалы для научных экспериментов, а также несколько кубсатов, которые будут запущены с орбиты. Аппарат, принадлежащий компании Northrop Grumman, будет оставаться на орбите около трех месяцев.


РИА Новости https://ria.ru/science/20181114/1532810331.html

ЦитироватьNorthrop Grumman CRS-10 Launch Postponed to Nov. 16

Rob Garner (https://blogs.nasa.gov/northropgrumman/author/rcgarner/)
Posted Nov 14, 2018 at 11:02 am

The launch of Northrop Grumman's Antares rocket with Cygnus cargo spacecraft has been postponed due to the poor weather forecast for the original launch window on Nov. 15. The revised launch window now opens at 4:23 a.m. EST on Nov. 16 from Pad 0A of Virginia Space's Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, located at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia's Eastern Shore.

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The Northrop Grumman Antares rocket, with Cygnus spacecraft aboard, is seen on Pad-0A, Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018, at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky

Today's Wallops range forecast for Nov. 15 assessed weather conditions at 90-percent unfavorable for a launch, with the main concerns being thick clouds, disturbed weather and low cloud ceilings. Heavy rainfall (1-2 inches) and high wind gusts (45-50 mph) are expected.

Rainfall looks to taper off early Friday morning, but strong northwesterly winds are still expected to affect the Eastern Shore during Friday's backup count and launch window. Winds are expected to be sustained at 25-30 mph with gusts up to 35 mph. Sea states will also be of concern with the prolonged high wind event: Seas are expected to be 8-12 feet during Friday morning's count and slightly falling off to 8-10 feet during the launch window.

Conditions look to become quite favorable for a launch Saturday morning with high pressure building into the southeastern U.S. and the Eastern Shore, providing lighter winds and mostly clear to clear skies. One caveat to Saturday however, is that the system expected to impact the Wallops region Thursday will drag a strong front across Bermuda on Friday into early Saturday, providing potentially heavy rainfall and strong winds there prior to the launch window. At this time, conditions do look to improve enough in Bermuda prior to the expected T-0 Saturday morning with winds diminishing and light rainfall lingering.

Weather in Bermuda is a factor because NASA's Bermuda Tracking Station (https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-renovates-dedicates-bermuda-tracking-station) supports tracking, telemetry, command and control of launches from both Wallops and Florida.

Under NASA's Commercial Resupply Services contract, Cygnus will carry about 7,400 pounds of crew supplies and hardware to the International Space Station, including science and research in support of dozens of research investigations (https://blogs.nasa.gov/northropgrumman/2018/11/13/antares-ng-10-whats-on-board/).

ЦитироватьDual Cargo Missions Set for Friday Launch and Sunday Delivery

Mark Garcia (https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/author/magarcia/)
Posted Nov 14, 2018 at 12:33 pm

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Two rockets stand at their launch pads on opposite sides of the world. Northrop Grumman's Antares rocket (https://flic.kr/p/2cSKsfP) (left) with its Cygnus cargo craft on top stands at its launch pad in Virginia. Russia's Progress 71 rocket is pictured at its launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

Dismal weather on Virginia's Atlantic coast has pushed back the launch of a U.S. cargo craft to the International Space Station (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html) one day to Friday. Russia's resupply ship is still on track for its launch to the orbital lab fr om Kazakhstan less than nine hours later on the same day.

Mission managers from NASA and Northrop Grumman are now targeting the Cygnus (https://cms.nasa.gov/feature/northrop-grumman-cygnus-launches-arrivals-and-departures/) space freighter's launch on Friday at 4:23 a.m. EST from Pad-0A at Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Cygnus sits atop an Antares rocket packed with over 7,500 pounds of crew supplies, science experiments, spacesuit gear, station hardware and computer resources.

Cygnus will separate from the Antares rocket when it reaches orbit nine minutes after launch and begin a two-day journey to the station's Unity module. Its cymbal-shaped UltraFlex solar arrays will then unfurl to power the vehicle during its flight. Expedition 57 (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition57/index.html) astronauts Alexander Gerst (http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Human_Spaceflight/Astronauts/Alexander_Gerst) and Serena Auñón-Chancellor (https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/serena-m-aunon-chancellor) will be in the cupola to greet Cygnus Sunday and capture the private cargo carrier with the Canadarm2 robotic arm at 4:35 a.m.

Russia rolled out its Progress 71 (71P) resupply ship today at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan wh ere it stands at the launch pad for final processing. The 71st flight of a Progress cargo craft to the orbital laboratory is scheduled for launch Friday at 1:14 p.m. Cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev will be monitoring the arrival of 71P when it automatically docks to the rear port of the Zvezda service module Sunday at 2:30 p.m.

Gerst and Prokopyev started Wednesday morning training for the arrival of 71P. The pair practiced commanding and manually docking the vehicle on a computer in the unlikely event the Russian cargo craft is unable to dock on its own. Gerst then moved on to Cygnus capture training after lunchtime with Auñón-Chancellor following up before the end of the day. NASA TV will cover live the launch, capture and docking of both Cygnus and Progress on Friday and Sunday.

ЦитироватьNorthrop Grumman CRS-10 Mission to the Space Station: What's On Board?

NASA (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLA_DiR1FfKNvjuUpBHmylQ)

Опубликовано: 14 нояб. 2018 г.

A "Refabricator" for sustainable in-space manufacturing and a multifunctional cell culture platform or "lab-on-a-chip" are just some of the science investigations heading to the International Space Station. They're on board Northrop Grumman's Cygnus resupply flight 10 (CRS-10), launching in mid-November on the Antares rocket from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility.

ЦитироватьBriefing Discusses Prelaunch Status of Space Station Supply Mission

NASA Video (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_aP7p621ATY_yAa8jMqUVA)

Опубликовано: 14 нояб. 2018 г.

During a Nov. 14 news briefing at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, in Virginia, the agency's commercial partner, Northrop Grumman and others discussed the prelaunch status of the company's 10th commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station. On Nov. 16, Northrop Grumman's Cygnus cargo spacecraft is targeted to launch aboard an Antares rocket from Wallops. The Cygnus, dubbed the SS John Young, will carry 7,500 pounds of research, crew supplies and hardware to the station.

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Northrop Grumman ‏Подлинная учетная запись @northropgrumman 43 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/northropgrumman/status/1062743904460644353)
Once our NG-10 S.S. John Young #Cygnus (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cygnus?src=hash) competes its mission on board, it will deploy 3 cubesats both above and below the @Space_Station (https://twitter.com/Space_Station) , a first for the spcecraft.

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У Синусов в плане попуток какая-то нездоровая тайна: вплоть до самого пуска непонятно кто летит.

ЦитироватьAntares launch from Virginia delayed to Friday
November 14, 2018 (https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/11/) | Stephen Clark (https://spaceflightnow.com/author/stephen-clark/)

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The Antaes rocket stands at launch pad 0A Wednesday at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky

A forecast of low ceilings, thick clouds and rainy weather Thursday has led NASA and Northrop Grumman officials to push back the launch of an Antares rocket and a space station-bound supply ship from Virginia's Eastern Shore to Friday morning.

Launch managers at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility decided Wednesday morning to bypass a launch opportunity Thursday morning, and instead aim for liftoff of the Antares rocket Friday at 4:23:55 a.m. EST (0923:55 GMT) carrying a Cygnus cargo carrier toward the International Space Station.

The predawn launch Friday is timed for when the space station's orbital plane — or ground track — is over the launch base in Virginia.

The delay sets up dual launches Friday from opposite sides of the world to resupply the space station in orbit more than 250 miles (400 kilometers) above Earth.

Less than nine hours after the Antares is scheduled to blast off from the U.S. East Coast, a Russian Soyuz rocket is set to fire into space from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 1:14 p.m. EST (1814 GMT). The Soyuz will dispatch a Progress resupply and refueling freighter to the space station.

Assuming both cargo missions launch Friday, they are due to arrive at the station Sunday.

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The weather team at Wallops briefed managers during a launch readiness review Wednesday, and the official weather outlook predicted a 90 percent probability that conditions early Thursday morning would violate the Antares rocket's launch commit criteria.

The weather conditions should improve somewhat later Thursday, with forecasters predicting a 55 percent chance low cloud ceilings or ground winds will prevent liftoff during Friday's five-minute launch window.

The Antares launch team will meet again Thursday morning to decide whether the forecast is good enough to warrant proceeding with a countdown and launch attempt Friday morning. Another launch opportunity is available Saturday, when better weather is forecast, with a less than 5 percent chance of out-of-bounds conditions.

If the Northrop Grumman Antares rocket lifts off Friday, the unpiloted Cygnus cargo craft nestled inside the launcher's payload fairing is scheduled to reach the space station Sunday around 4:35 a.m. EST (0935 GMT). Astronauts Serena Auñón-Chancellor and Alexander Gerst will use the station's Canadian-built robotic arm to capture the Cygnus, which will be berthed to the Unity module on the orbiting research outpost for a three-month stay.

The Progress MS-10 supply ship is scheduled to dock with the station's Zvezda service module at 2:30 p.m. EST (1930 GMT) Sunday, around 10 hours after the Cygnus arrival.

If both missions reach the station Sunday, it will be the first time in the research lab's nearly 20-year history that two resupply vehicles have made cargo deliveries on the same day.

The space station is short-staffed with a three-person crew after a Russian cosmonaut and a NASA astronaut aborted their launch Oct. 11 following a S0yuz booster failure. Another three-person crew is set to launch from Kazakhstan on a Soyuz rocket Dec. 3.

The back-to-back cargo ship arrivals Sunday will make for a busy day, but the station crew, led by European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst, will be able to handle the arrivals, said Joel Montalbano, NASA's deputy space station program manager.

After Auñón-Chancellor captures the Cygnus with the robotic arm — with the help of Gerst — the station commander will assist Russian cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev in monitoring the Progress's radar-guided automated approach.

"Alexander Gerst is going to be helping out his Russian colleague for the Progress vehicle," Montalbano said Wednesday. "Normally, it's an automated docking, but they need to be prepared to go ahead and do a remote-controlled docking."

Montalbano said Gerst has received some refresher training to be able to assist Prokopyev with the Progress docking, a job that typically goes to a second Russian crew member.

"We're not seeing any issues," Montalbano said of the same-day cargo ship arrivals. "We've worked with the crew. We'll be adjusting their schedules a bit, but no major perturbations to the schedule."

If the Antares launch slips to Saturday, the Cygnus spacecraft's rendezvous with the space station would be delayed to Monday, a bit more than a half-day after the Progress docking.

With only three people on the station — rather than the typical five or six — Montalbano said some research activities have been reprioritized, but operations have not been significantly impacted.

"As far as science, with two less people ... you'll do a little less activities on-board, but it's just for a short time, and actually the crew members on-board have picked it up, and they've been really working hard and picking up the things that had to get done," he said. "Any science or research that's time-critical, it's being done, and we're reprioritizing other activities, so from that standpoint, we're doing actually very well."

The Cygnus supply ship is set to deliver 7,215 pounds (3,273 kilograms) of supplies and experiments to the space station, including a plastic recycler and 3D printer to advance in-space manufacturing capabilities, and an experiment studying how the human body's ability to perceive motion, orientation and distance changes in microgravity.

The resupply mission will mark the 11th launch of a Cygnus spacecraft carrying cargo to the International Space Station, including a test flight in 2013 and a failed Antares launch in 2014 that destroyed the supply ship seconds after liftoff.

The mission is designated NG-10, and it is the first Cygnus flight since Northrop Grumman acquired Orbital ATK, which developed and flew the previous cargo missions under an 11-launch contract with NASA valued at nearly $2.9 billion.

Starting with NG-12, set for launch in late 2019, Northrop Grumman will kick off a follow-on commercial resupply services contract, guaranteeing the company at least six additional flights through 2024.

SpaceX also launches cargo to the space station for NASA, and the space agency has tapped Sierra Nevada Corp. to begin resupplying the research complex in late 2020.

The next SpaceX resupply launch is set for Dec. 4 from Cape Canaveral.

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Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/31676.png)NASA HQ PHOTO‏Подлинная учетная запись @nasahqphoto (https://twitter.com/nasahqphoto) 6 ч. назад (https://twitter.com/nasahqphoto/status/1062874820004732928)

A bald eagle is seen atop one of the lightning towers at Pad-0A as launch preparations continue for @northropgrumman (https://twitter.com/northropgrumman)'s 10th resupply mission to @Space_Station (https://twitter.com/Space_Station). Launch is targeted for Friday, Nov. 16 at 4:23am ET. Check out more pictures - https://flic.kr/s/aHsmvNRnwB  (https://t.co/AhNhB52pad)

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Цитировать14:46, 15 ноября 2018
Старт американского "грузовика" к МКС вновь могут перенести из-за непогоды

Москва. 15 ноября. INTERFAX.RU - Запуск американской ракеты-носителя "Антарес" (Antares) с грузовым космическим кораблем "Сигнус" (Cygnus) к Международной космической станции (МКС) может быть вновь перенесен из-за сохраняющейся непогоды в районе космодрома Уоллопс, следует из данных Национального управления по аэронавтике и исследованию космического пространства США (НАСА).

В среду представители НАСА сообщили, что запланированный на 15 ноября старт из-за плотной, низкой облачности, ветра и сильного дождя перенесен на пятницу. Однако, по последним данным НАСА, 16 ноября в районе космодрома продолжится дождь, хотя и меньшей интенсивности, а также будет сильный северо-западный ветер со скоростью 40-48 км в час и порывами до 56 км в час.

"Погодные условия выглядят вполне благоприятными для проведения пуска в субботу, - сообщает НАСА. - Ветер ослабеет и в основном будет ясное небо".

Спойлер

В преддверии запуска к МКС американская ракета-носитель с "грузовиком" во вторник уже была установлена на стартовой площадке на космодроме Уоллопс. Специальный поезд доставил ракету из цеха горизонтальной сборки к расположенному в полутора километрах от него стартовому столу.

Космодром Уоллопс размещается на одноименном острове у атлантического побережья американского штата Вирджиния.

Запуск осуществляется в рамках коммерческого контракта НАСА с корпорацией "Нортроп Грумман", которой принадлежит автоматический грузовой космический корабль. "Сигнус" должен будет доставить на МКС около 3,4 тонн груза, в том числе продовольствие, а также оборудование и материалы для проведения десятков научных исследований. Это будет десятый полет американского космического грузовика данного типа к МКС, начиная с 2013 года.

Как сообщалось, на 16 ноября запланирован запуск к МКС российского грузового корабля "Прогресс МС-10". Таким образом, старт "Прогресса" к МКС может стать первым после неудачного полета 11 октября к станции пилотируемого российского космического корабля "Союз МС-10".

Между тем, если в этот же день все же был бы осуществлен запуск американского "грузовика", то, по словам представителей НАСА, никаких проблем для экипажа МКС это не создало бы, поскольку временная разница в их пристыковках к станции составляла бы около 19 часов.

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ЦитироватьRobotics On-Board Training (OBT):
Today the crew performed a self-study training session using the Robotics Onboard Trainer (ROBoT). They exercised Cygnus approach and retreat monitoring, as well as capture, using a simulated Space Station Remote Manipulator System (SSRMS). ROBoT is an on-orbit version of the ground-based Dynamics Skills Trainer (DST) that simulates robotics operations with graphical feedback. Northrop Grumman 10 (NG-10) Antares 230 Rocket is scheduled to launch from Wallops Flight Facility on November 16 at 09:27 GMT and Cygnus capture is planned for November 18 at 09:35 GMT.

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/31159.jpg)NASA Wallops‏Подлинная учетная запись @NASA_Wallops (https://twitter.com/NASA_Wallops) 8:09 (https://twitter.com/NASA_Wallops/status/1063101597486583811) - 15 нояб. 2018 г.

Rain, rain go away, we'll have to launch the rocket another day (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/125343.png)

The @northropgrumman (https://twitter.com/northropgrumman) CRS-10 mission has been rescheduled for Saturday, Nov. 17 at 4:01 a.m. due to inclement weather.

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ЦитироватьNorthrop Grumman's CRS-10 Launch Postponed to Nov. 17

Rob Garner (https://blogs.nasa.gov/northropgrumman/author/rcgarner/)
Posted Nov 15, 2018 at 11:28 am

The launch of Northrop Grumman's Antares rocket with Cygnus cargo spacecraft is now targeted for 4:01 a.m. EST Saturday, Nov. 17, from Pad 0A of Virginia Space's Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, located at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia's Eastern Shore. NASA TV will provide launch  coverage with commentary online (http://www.nasa.gov/live) beginning at 3:30 a.m.

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The teams decided to wait another day for launch after assessing continuing unfavorable weather conditions, including high winds and high seas, forecast for Friday morning. The forecast for a launch Saturday is significantly improved with a less than five percent chance of weather conditions preventing a launch.

Under NASA's Commercial Resupply Services contract, Cygnus will carry about 7,400 pounds of crew supplies and hardware to the International Space Station, including critical science and research investigations (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/ng-10_research_highlights). A launch Saturday would result in capture and berthing Monday, Nov. 19.

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The Northrop Grumman Antares rocket, with Cygnus resupply spacecraft aboard, is seen on Pad-0A, Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2018, at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky

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Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186343.jpg)Chris G - NSF‏ @ChrisG_NSF (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF) 4 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF/status/1063131323781603328)

And for those who like the details, the precise opening - and targeted launch time - of the 5-minute launch window for #Antares (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Antares?src=hash) on Saturday morning is 04:01:22 EST (0901:22 UTC).

#Cygnus (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cygnus?src=hash) @NASA (https://twitter.com/NASA) @northropgrumman (https://twitter.com/northropgrumman)

ЦитироватьНАСА сообщило об очередном переносе старта американского "грузовика" к МКС из-за непогоды
15.11.2018 21:05:12

Вашингтон. 15 ноября. ИНТЕРФАКС - Запуск американской ракеты-носителя "Антарес" (Antares) с грузовым космическим кораблем "Сигнус" (Cygnus) к Международной космической станции (МКС) перенесен на 17 ноября из-за сохраняющейся непогоды в районе космодрома Уоллопс, сообщило в четверг Национальное управление по аэронавтике и исследованию космического пространства США (НАСА).

Это уже второй перенос запуска, который первоначально планировался на четверг, а затем на пятницу.

"Принято решение подождать еще один день для запуска после оценки сохраняющихся неблагоприятных погодных условий, в том числе из-за сильных ветров в пятницу утром, - говорится в сообщении. - Прогноз на субботу значительно улучшился, вероятность неблагоприятных погодных условий, которые могут воспрепятствовать осуществлению запуска, составляет менее пяти процентов".

В среду представители НАСА сообщили, что запланированный на 15 ноября старт из-за плотной, низкой облачности, ветра и сильного дождя перенесен на пятницу. Однако 16 ноября в районе космодрома продолжится дождь, хотя и меньшей интенсивности, а также будет сильный северо-западный ветер со скоростью 40-48 км в час и порывами до 56 км в час.

"Погодные условия выглядят вполне благоприятными для проведения пуска в субботу, - сообщило ранее в четверг НАСА. - Ветер ослабеет и в основном будет ясное небо".

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/31159.jpg)NASA Wallops‏Подлинная учетная запись @NASA_Wallops (https://twitter.com/NASA_Wallops) 12:18 (https://twitter.com/NASA_Wallops/status/1063164443318726658) - 15 нояб. 2018 г.

(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/125368.png) Ok, so we're kind of glad we're not going to try to launch a rocket tonight! Fortunately, NASA predicts 95 percent favorable weather conditions for launch at 4:01 a.m. on Saturday!

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ЦитироватьLatest Forecast for Nov. 17 Launch: 95 Percent Favorable

Rob Garner (https://blogs.nasa.gov/northropgrumman/author/rcgarner/)
Posted Nov 16, 2018 at 8:57 am

Northrop Grumman's 10th contracted cargo resupply mission for NASA to the International Space Station will deliver about 7,400 pounds of science and research, crew supplies and vehicle hardware to the orbital laboratory and its crew. The launch window opens Saturday, Nov. 17, at 4:01 a.m. EST.

Today's Wallops range forecast predicts excellent conditions for launch, with less than a 5 percent chance of a weather-related concern.

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The Northrop Grumman Antares rocket, with Cygnus resupply spacecraft aboard, is seen on Pad-0A after sunrise, Friday, Nov. 16, 2018, at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky

The storm system that produced high winds and heavy rain on Thursday is currently exiting the region and moving off quickly to the northeast. Windy conditions will continue through the morning hours before beginning to subside this afternoon as the area of low pressure moves farther away and high pressure builds closer to the Wallops area.

ЦитироватьNorthrop Grumman 10 (NG-10) Robotics Onboard Training:

... Due to weather concerns, NG-10 Antares 230 Rocket is now scheduled to launch on Saturday, November 17 at 3:01AM CT. Cygnus capture is planned for Monday, November 19 at 4:20AM CT.

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/31159.jpg)NASA Wallops‏Подлинная учетная запись @NASA_Wallops (https://twitter.com/NASA_Wallops) 18 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/NASA_Wallops/status/1063454971226669056)

Yesterday's weather (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/125313.png) vs. today's weather (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/125593.png) Conditions have greatly improved overnight and we remain on schedule for a 4:01 a.m. EST launch on Saturday, Nov. 17.

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ЦитироватьRussia's Cargo Craft Blasts Off to Station for Sunday Delivery

Mark Garcia (https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/author/magarcia/)
Posted Nov 16, 2018 at 1:25 pm

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Crew aboard the space station are scheduled to receive two cargo resupply missions in the coming days. Tomorrow, launch of Northrop Grumman's Antares rocket with Cygnus cargo spacecraft bound for the International Space Station is targeted for 4:01 a.m. from Pad 0A of Virginia Space's Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, located at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia's Eastern Shore. NASA TV will provide launch broadcast coverage online (http://www.nasa.gov/live) beginning at 3:30 a.m. A Cygnus launch Saturday would result in capture and berthing on Monday, Nov. 19.

ЦитироватьNG-10 Launch Preview

Northrop Grumman (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiTTe3mBodoZVGVhQDpEFjg)

Опубликовано: 16 нояб. 2018 г.


Northrop Grumman's NG-10 mission preview gives you an inside look at the company's Antares rocket and Cygnus spacecraft. Cygnus delivers essential cargo and science experiments to astronauts aboard the International Space Station.

ЦитироватьК МКС стартует американский грузовой космический корабль "Сигнус"
17.11.2018 00:00:00

Вашингтон. 17 ноября. ИНТЕРФАКС - Американская ракета-носитель "Антарес" (Antares) с грузовым космическим кораблем "Сигнус" (Cygnus) в субботу должна стартовать к Международной космической станции (МКС), сообщило Национальное управление по аэронавтике и исследованию космического пространства США (НАСА).

Запуск намечен на 04:01 по восточному времени США (12:01 мск) с космодрома Уоллопс, который размещается на одноименном острове у атлантического побережья американского штата Вирджиния.

Стыковка корабля "Сигнус" с МКС запланирована на 19 ноября. Она будет осуществляться путем захвата грузовика рукой-манипулятором на МКС, которым будет управлять американский астронавт, и последующим присоединением грузового корабля к американскому сегменту станции.

Спойлер

Это уже третья попытка запуска американского "грузовика", который переносился из-за непогоды в районе космодрома Уоллопс. Первоначально он должен был состояться 15 ноября, а затем - 16 ноября.

"Прогноз на субботу значительно улучшился, вероятность неблагоприятных погодных условий, которые могут воспрепятствовать осуществлению запуска, составляет менее пяти процентов, - сообщили в НАСА. - Ветер ослабеет и в основном будет ясное небо".

В преддверии запуска к МКС американская ракета-носитель с "грузовиком" во вторник была установлена на стартовой площадке на космодроме Уоллопс. Специальный поезд доставил ракету из цеха горизонтальной сборки к расположенному в полутора километрах от него стартовому столу.

Запуск осуществляется в рамках коммерческого контракта НАСА с корпорацией "Нортроп Грумман", которой принадлежит ракета-носитель и автоматический грузовой космический корабль. "Сигнус" должен будет доставить на МКС около 3,4 тонн груза, в том числе продовольствие, а также оборудование и материалы для проведения десятков научных исследований. Это будет десятый полет американского космического грузовика данного типа к МКС. Первый запуск "Сигнуса" состоялся 18 сентября 2013 года.

Грузовой корабль заберет со станции мусор и отходы. После завершения программы полета 18 февраля 2019 года "Сигнус" будет сведен с орбиты и прекратит свое существование в акватории Тихого океана. Большая его часть сгорит в плотных слоях атмосферы Земли.

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ЦитироватьLive coverage: Antares launch from Virginia delayed to Saturday
November 15, 2018 (https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/11/) | Stephen Clark (https://spaceflightnow.com/author/stephen-clark/)

11/17/2018 01:24 Stephen Clark

Northrop Grumman's Antares launch team plans to arrive at their consoles at the control center at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility shortly after 9 p.m. EST (0200 GMT) tonight, and the Antares countdown will officially kick off at 9:46 p.m. EST (0246 GMT).

Liftoff of the 139-foot-tall (42.5-meter) rocket from launch pad 0A on Wallops Island, Virginia, is set for 4:01:23 a.m. EST (0901:23 GMT) to begin a two-day pursuit of the International Space Station.

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Final closeouts of the Antares rocket and ground systems at pad 0A will be complete by the time ground teams evacuate the launch complex before fueling of the first stage.

Loading of the Antares rocket's first stage with RP-1 fuel and liquid oxygen should begin around 90 minutes prior to liftoff.

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The launch team will load around 41,000 gallons (155,000 liters) of liquid oxygen and 21,000 gallons (79,000 liters) of rocket-grade kerosene into the Antares first stage.

The Cygnus supply ship mounted atop the Antares rocket will carry more than 7,200 pounds (3,273 kilograms) of cargo and experiments to the space station.

Excellent weather conditions are forecast during the five-minute launch window Saturday, with less than a 5 percent chance weather will prevent liftoff of the Antares rocket.

That is in stark contracts to rainy weather the last couple of days, which forced managers to delay the launch from Thursday morning, to Friday, and finally to Saturday.

"High pressure will continue to build over the Wallops region Friday afternoon into the evening hours, providing clearing skies and decreasing winds," the Wallops weather team wrote in a forecast issued this morning. "As high pressure ridges overhead, weather conditions will be excellent for launch early Saturday morning, with no weather concerns expected."

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"Backup days on Sunday and Monday also look favorable for launch, with just a slight uptick in cloudiness expected."

Цитировать11/17/2018 05:52 Countdown begins Stephen Clark

The countdown began on time to begin final preps for Saturday's 4:01 a.m. EST (0901 GMT) blastoff of the 14-story Antares rocket from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.

The Antares rocket will be powered up around 11:30 p.m. EST (0430 GMT), and the launch team is going through a checklist of testing to ensure all systems are in good shape. The launch pad is also scheduled to be evacuated of all personnel.

The call-to-stations for the engineers on the launch team occurred shortly before 9:30 p.m. EST (0230 GMT), with voice checks and opening of the prelaunch checklist at 9:46 p.m. EST (0246 GMT).

Propellant loading should begin around 90 minutes prior to liftoff.

Цитировать11/17/2018 06:54 Stephen Clark

The first weather briefing of the countdown shows favorable conditions at Wallops, with a 95 percent chance of good weather at launch time.

Conditions at launch time should be mostly clear with a few clouds at 3,500 feet, a few clouds at 35,000 feet, northwest winds of 6 knots, and a temperature of 44 degrees Fahrenheit.

Цитировать11/17/2018 08:04 Stephen Clark

All personnel have evacuated the launch pad and are at a nearby fallback area, clearing the way for the launch team to begin powering up the vehicle for pre-launch testing.


11/17/2018 08:04 Stephen Clark

The launch team has powered up the Antares and Cygnus vehicles for systems checks.

Цитировать11/17/2018 08:10 Stephen Clark

The countdown is moving into testing of the Antares rocket's beacon and telemetry transmitters. This will be followed by checks of the vehicle's flight termination system.

ЦитироватьAntares launch timeline on the NG-10 mission
November 16, 2018 (https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/11/) | Stephen Clark (https://spaceflightnow.com/author/stephen-clark/)

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Northrop Grumman's Antares rocket will deliver a Cygnus supply ship into orbit Saturday to begin a two-day pursuit of the International Space Station.

The rocket's two RD-181 engines will ignite around 3.7 seconds before liftoff from pad 0A at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, a complex owned by the state of Virginia at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility.

Launch is timed for 4:01 a.m. EST (0901 GMT) Saturday.

The first stage's two RD-181 engines will power up to 864,000 pounds of thrust and burn for 3 minutes, 35 seconds, to accelerate the rocket to more than 8,750 mph (3.9 kilometers per second) and an altitude of around 61 miles (99 kilometers), then separate from the upper stage's Castor 30XL motor about six seconds later.

The launch, known as NG-10 in Northrop Grumman's station resupply manifest, will be the fourth Antares mission using new, more powerful RD-181 engines, which the company ordered from the Russian engine-builder NPO Energomash to replace decades-old Russian-built AJ26 engines blamed for an Antares rocket crash seconds after liftoff in October 2014.

Once the first stage finished its job on the NG-10 launch the Antares rocket's 12.8-foot-diameter (3.9-meter) diameter payload shroud will jettison in two halves at around T+plus 4 minutes, 11 seconds. An interstage adapter that connected the first and second stages will separate at T+plus 4 minutes, 16 seconds.

The launcher's Castor 30XL solid-fueled upper stage will ignite at T+plus 4 minutes, 24 seconds, and generate up to 104,300 pounds of thrust during a burn lasting approximately 2 minutes, 42 seconds. The second stage motor will burn out at approximately T+plus 7 minutes, 6 seconds, then deploy the Cygnus spacecraft at around T+plus 9 minutes, 6 seconds.

The spacecraft's two cymbal-shaped electricity-generating solar arrays will unfurl in a fan-like motion around 90 minutes into the mission, and the ship's thrusters will begin fine-tuning its approach to the space station with a series of course-correction burns, setting up for a laser-guided final approach Monday.

Цитировать11/17/2018 08:21 Stephen Clark

The propellant loading sequencer has been initiated, beginning steps to ready the Antares rocket and ground systems for filling of the first stage with liquid propellants later in the countdown.

Цитировать11/17/2018 10:01 Stephen Clark

Two hours until launch. An upd ated status on the countdown from Northrop Grumman launch conductor Adam Lewis shows the Antares rocket, the Cygnus spacecraft and the Wallops range are all "green" at this time.

The Cygnus spacecraft set for launch aboard the Antares rocket is named the S.S. John Young in honor of the Gemini, Apollo and space shuttle astronaut who died in January

The S.S John Young is packed with 7,215 pounds (3,273 kilograms) of supplies and experiments heading to the International Space Station. Here's a breakdown of the cargo manifest provided by NASA:

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• 2,515.5 pounds (1,141 kilograms) of crew supplies
• 2,301.6 pounds (1,044 kilograms) of science investigations
• 2,076.8 pounds (942 kilograms) of vehicle hardware
• 253.5 pounds (115 kilograms) of computer resources
• 68.3 pounds (31 kilograms) of spacewalk equipment
  

The Cygnus supply ship is expected to remain berthed at the International Space Station's Unity module until mid-February, when it will be released by the station's robotic arm.

The automated cargo carrier, loaded with trash after its departure from the station, will fire its engine to climb into a higher orbit roughly 300 miles (500 kilometers) above Earth to deploy two CubeSats.

One of the nanosatellites is MYSat 1, a 1U CubeSat around the size of a Rubik's cube. Carrying two payloads -- camera and a lithion-ion coil cell battery -- MYSat 1 was built by Masdar Institute of Science and Technology in Abu Dhabi with the support of Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems and Al Yah Satellite Communications Company in the United Arab Emirates.

The other CubeSat se t for release in the higher orbit is CHEFSat 2 from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory.

About the size of a shoebox, CHEFSat 2 is a copy of a CubeSat launched on a Cygnus cargo mission to the space station last November. CHEFSat 2 will test commercial off-the-shelf technologies to evaluate their performance in space, focusing on new radio communications capabilities.

Cygnus will lower its orbit below the space station's altitude after releasing MYSat 1 and CHEFSat 2, targeting an altitude of around 200 miles (325 kilometers) for separation of KickSat 2, a NASA-sponsored CubeSat mission led by principal investigator Zac Manchester at Stanford University.

KickSat 2 carries 100 tiny "sprites" -- essentially 1.4-inch (3.5-centimeter) square circuit boards with integrated power, computing, sensing and communication equipment. The mission is a follow-up to the KickSat mission that launched in 2014, but failed to release its sprites in orbit.

The mission will test the limits of satellite miniaturization, a trend toward affordability widely popularized by the CubeSat design over the last two decades. But KickSat's sprites are a tiny fraction of the size of a CubeSat.

KickSat 2 will eject its sprites at a lower altitude to ensure the circuit boards re-enter Earth's atmosphere in a matter of weeks, avoiding the possibility of the sprites, which could be difficult to track with ground-based radars, becoming a long-term space debris threat to other satellites.

Цитировать11/17/2018 10:03 Stephen Clark

A report from the Wallops range indicates that toxic and debris constraints are "green."

Цитировать11/17/2018 10:06 Stephen Clark

An updated weather report shows no concerns, and the launch weather officer has upped his probability of acceptable conditions at launch time to 100 percent.

Цитировать11/17/2018 10:19 Stephen Clark

Northrop Grumman launch conductor Adam Lewis has polled the Antares launch team, and all stations reported they are "go" to begin fueling the liquid-fueled first stage with RP-1 kerosene and liquid oxygen.

Цитировать11/17/2018 10:21 Stephen Clark

The countdown has resumed after a 20-minute built-in hold.

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/185703.jpg)Northrop Grumman‏Подлинная учетная запись @northropgrumman (https://twitter.com/northropgrumman) 23:23 (https://twitter.com/northropgrumman/status/1063694110551355392) - 16 нояб. 2018 г.

L-01:38 - #Antares (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Antares?src=hash), #Cygnus (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cygnus?src=hash), weather and range are all green and we are GO to begin fueling.

Цитировать11/17/2018 10:31 Stephen Clark

Propellant has started pumping into the Antares rocket's first stage. About 21,000 gallons of RP-1, a high-refined rocket-grade kerosene, and about 41,000 gallons of liquid oxygen will be loaded into the first stage over the next half-hour.

The kerosene is stored at roughly room temperature and the liquid oxygen is chilled to around minus 298 degrees Fahrenheit. The oxygen will slowly boil off during the countdown, and liquid oxygen will continue flowing into the rocket until shortly before liftoff.

One change introduced by the Antares 230 rocket, which made its maiden flight in 2016, is the elimination of "sub-cooled" liquid oxygen chilled and densified at minus 383 degrees Fahrenheit for the Antares rocket's old AJ26 engines. The RD-181s consume the oxidizer at its boiling point.

The first stage tanks are designed by Yuzhnoye and built by Yuzhmash in Ukraine based on heritage from the Zenit rocket. The liquid oxygen tank is positioned in the upper part of the 12.8-foot-diameter stage and the RP-1 tank is in the lower part of the stage.

The first stage's two RD-181 engines will consume the liquid propellant during a 3-minute, 35-second burn.

The Antares second stage, a Castor 30XL motor built by Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems, is propelled by solid fuel already loaded into the rocket.

Цитировать11/17/2018 10:54 Stephen Clark

A few minutes ago, gripper arms on the transporter-erector-launcher opened, and the structure moved to the so-called "pre-pullback" position.

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/29831.jpg)William Harwood‏ @cbs_spacenews (https://twitter.com/cbs_spacenews) 4 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/cbs_spacenews/status/1063704548303413248)

Antares/NG10: Liftoff from pad 0A at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport/Wallops Island, VA, is targeted for 4:01:23am EST; clear skies are expected

Цитировать11/17/2018 11:09 Stephen Clark

Engineers are selecting and loading the preferred trajectory file into the Antares flight computer at this time.

Цитировать11/17/2018 11:11 Stephen Clark

Fifty minutes until launch. Fueling operations continue for today's liftoff at 4:01:23 a.m. EST (0901:23 GMT). The launch window extends for five minutes.

Wallops regularly launches suborbital sounding rockets for scientific and engineering research purposes, and the facility has occasionally launched small satellites with Northrop Grumman's Minotaur rockets.

The Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority owns the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, which oversaw development of the launch pad used by Antares. The Commonwealth of Virginia paid for about $80 million of the $120 million cost of the launch pad, with most of the rest of the funding coming from the federal government.

Combined with the cost of the Antares hangar and a Minotaur rocket launch pad just south of the Antares facility, the MARS complex cost about $150 million.

After the Antares launch failure in October 2014, NASA, Orbital ATK and MARS each contributed $5 million to repair the launch pad.

Цитировать11/17/2018 11:11 Stephen Clark

The Antares' SIGI guidance computer is being aligned and configured for today's launch.

Цитировать11/17/2018 11:21 Stephen Clark

40 minutes until liftoff. The Cygnus spacecraft on this flight is carrying 3,273 kilograms, or 7,215 pounds, of supplies to the International Space Station. This is the seventh flight of the enlarged Cygnus pressurized cargo module from Thales Alenia Space, providing 25 percent more interior volume for supplies. The spacecraft measures about 20 feet tall, and the pressurized cargo module has a volume of about 27 cubic meters, or 950 cubic feet.

Here are some statistics on today's launch:

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• 9th Antares rocket launch
• 4th launch of the Antares 230 configuration
• 15th orbital launch from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport
• 11th launch of a Cygnus spacecraft
• 2nd orbital launch from Wallops in 2018
• 28th U.S. orbital launch in 2018
• 93rd global orbital launch attempt in 2018
  

Цитировать11/17/2018 11:39 Stephen Clark

Upper level winds are reported go for launch.

Цитировать11/17/2018 11:41 Stephen Clark

T-minus 10 minutes and holding. The Antares countdown has entered a pre-planned hold to allow the launch team to catch up on any work running behind schedule. This hold is scheduled to last 10 minutes.

Цитировать11/17/2018 11:42 Stephen Clark

The Antares rocket's Transporter-Erector-Launcher, or TEL, is being armed for rapid retract at this time.

Цитировать11/17/2018 11:46 Stephen Clark

The Cygnus spacecraft, named the "S.S. John Young," is switching to its internal battery power supply in preparation for liftoff.

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/184924.jpg)Intl. Space Station‏Подлинная учетная запись @Space_Station (https://twitter.com/Space_Station) 1 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/Space_Station/status/1063714856883376128)

Here is a peek at the science and gear the Cygnus space freighter will be hauling to the station crew when it launches today at 4:01am ET. Watch live now... https://www.nasa.gov/live  (https://t.co/yuOTrYN8CV)

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Цитировать11/17/2018 11:52 Stephen Clark

The launch team is now arming controllers and ordnance on the Antares rocket.


11/17/2018 11:54 Stephen Clark

The Antares rocket will switch to internal battery power and pressurize its first stage propellant tanks in the next few minutes.

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/185703.jpg)Northrop Grumman‏Подлинная учетная запись @northropgrumman (https://twitter.com/northropgrumman) 5 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/northropgrumman/status/1063716463628955648)

We are GO for launch! Final count is underway with liftoff set for 4:01 am EST. Go #Antares (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Antares?src=hash)! Go #Cygnus (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cygnus?src=hash)!

ЦитироватьLaunch of Antares Rocket with Cygnus NG-10 from Wallops

Space Videos (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdF5d0UwSJJunRcRVzP1uDg)

Опубликовано: 17 нояб. 2018 г.

ЦитироватьNG CRS-10: Antares 230 launches SS John Young Cygnus spacecraft

SciNews (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjU6ZwoTQtKWfz1urL7XcbA)

Опубликовано: 17 нояб. 2018 г.

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/29831.jpg)William Harwood‏ @cbs_spacenews (https://twitter.com/cbs_spacenews) 1:12 (https://twitter.com/cbs_spacenews/status/1063721414367289344) - 17 нояб. 2018 г.

Antares/NG10: Cygnus separation confirmed; orbit is "close to nominal expectations;" next event is solar array deploy a bit more than an hour from now

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186040.jpg)Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight) 1:02 (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/1063719070950936582) - 17 нояб. 2018 г.

LAUNCH! NGIS conducts its first launch (post-Orbital ATK) with Antares and Cygnus NG-10.

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Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186040.jpg)Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight) 31 мин.31 минуту назад (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/1063721418834227200)

S/C Sep for Cygnus NG-10 after launch on Antares.

ARTICLE:

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2018/11/antares-station-ng-10-cargo-pegasus/ ... (https://t.co/zQgT0gCyHm)

- by @ChrisG_NSF (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF)

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ЦитироватьLiftoff!

Rob Garner (https://blogs.nasa.gov/northropgrumman/author/rcgarner/)
Posted Nov 17, 2018 at 4:06 am

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Liftoff of Antares rocket on CRS-10 mission. Credit: NASA

Northrop Grumman's Antares rocket carrying the Cygnus cargo spacecraft lifted off at 4:01 a.m. EST and is on its way to the International Space Station.

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The Northrop Grumman Antares rocket, with Cygnus resupply spacecraft onboard, launches from Pad-0A, Saturday, Nov. 17, 2018, at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky

At about 5:45 a.m., commands will be given to deploy the spacecraft's solar arrays.

Launch coverage will continue on NASA TV until shortly after spacecraft separation then resume at 5 a.m. for solar array deployment, which is expected to last about 30 minutes.

A post-launch news conference will follow and is scheduled to begin on NASA TV at approximately 6:30 a.m.

ЦитироватьАмериканская ракета-носитель с грузовым космическим кораблем "Сигнус" стартовала к МКС
       Вашингтон. 17 ноября. ИНТЕРФАКС - Американская ракета-носитель "Антарес" (Antares) с грузовым космическим кораблем "Сигнус" (Cygnus) в субботу отправилась к Международной космической станции (МКС), сообщило Национальное управление по аэронавтике и исследованию космического пространства США (НАСА).
       Запуск произведен в соответствии с планом в 12:01 мск с космодрома Уоллопс, который размещается на одноименном острове у атлантического побережья американского штата Вирджиния.
       Стыковка корабля "Сигнус" с МКС запланирована на 19 ноября. Она будет осуществляться путем захвата "грузовика" рукой-манипулятором на МКС, которым будет управлять американский астронавт, и последующим присоединением грузового корабля к американскому сегменту станции.
       Старт американской ракеты-носителя с грузовым кораблем "Сигнус" дважды переносился из-за непогоды в районе космодрома Уоллопс. Первоначально он должен был состояться 15 ноября, а затем - 16 ноября.
       Запуск осуществлен в рамках коммерческого контракта НАСА с корпорацией "Нортроп Грумман", которой принадлежит ракета-носитель и автоматический грузовой космический корабль. "Сигнус" должен будет доставить на МКС около 3,4 тонн груза, в том числе продовольствие, а также оборудование и материалы для проведения десятков научных исследований. Это будет уже десятым полетом американского космического грузовика данного типа к МКС. Первый запуск "Сигнуса" состоялся 18 сентября 2013 года.
       Корабль состоит из двух модулей цилиндрической формы: оборудованного солнечными батареями служебного модуля и герметичного грузового модуля.
       Грузовой корабль заберет со станции мусор и отходы. После завершения программы полета 18 февраля 2019 года "Сигнус" будет сведен с орбиты и прекратит свое существование в акватории Тихого океана. Большая его часть сгорит в плотных слоях атмосферы Земли.
       Как сообщалось, накануне на орбиту Земли российской ракетой-носителем "Союз-ФГ" был выведен грузовой корабль "Прогресс МС-10", который также направляется на МКС. Он должен причалить к станции в воскресенье в 22:29 мск.

Цитировать11/17/2018 12:23 Stephen Clark

The time of first motion at liftoff from pad 0A was recorded at 4:01:31.9 EST (0901:31.9 GMT).

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186040.jpg)Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight) 2:00 (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/1063733541442330629) - 17 нояб. 2018 г.

Cygnus Solar Array deploy next. UltraFlex Solar Arrays.

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Цитировать11/17/2018 13:29 Stephen Clark

The Cygnus ground team at Northrop Grumman's control center in Dulles, Virginia, has sent the command to begin unfurling the cargo craft's two solar arrays, which unfold like a fan. This process could take up to a half-hour to complete.

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186040.jpg)Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight) 2:27 (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/1063740427835244545) - 17 нояб. 2018 г.

Some NASA photos of the Antares launch.

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Цитироватьtnt22 пишет:

Цитировать11/17/2018 12:23 Stephen Clark

The time of first motion at liftoff from pad 0A was recorded at 4:01:31.9 EST ( 0901:31.9 GMT ).

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/29831.jpg)William Harwood‏ @cbs_spacenews (https://twitter.com/cbs_spacenews) 2:46 (https://twitter.com/cbs_spacenews/status/1063745258415144960) - 17 нояб. 2018 г.

Antares/NG10: NASA reports the Cygnus solar array panels are beginning to deploy

Цитировать11/17/2018 14:04 Stephen Clark

Ground controllers have confirmed both Cygnus solar array wings are deployed. Each of the UltraFlex arrays is circular in shape and has a diameter of 12.1 feet (3.7 meters).

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/29831.jpg)William Harwood‏ @cbs_spacenews (https://twitter.com/cbs_spacenews) 3:04 (https://twitter.com/cbs_spacenews/status/1063749827484372993) - 17 нояб. 2018 г.

Antares/NG10: Northrop Grumman reports both Cygnus solar array panels are now open and locked in place; power checks now underway

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/185703.jpg)Northrop Grumman‏Подлинная учетная запись @northropgrumman (https://twitter.com/northropgrumman) 3:12 (https://twitter.com/northropgrumman/status/1063751710185787393) - 17 нояб. 2018 г.

The solar arrays on the S.S. John Young #Cygnus (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cygnus?src=hash) have been deployed! Cygnus is on its way to the @Space_Station (https://twitter.com/Space_Station) and is scheduled to arrive early Monday morning. Be sure to follow us on our social channels for the latest mission updates. #Antares (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Antares?src=hash) #NorthropGrumman (https://twitter.com/hashtag/NorthropGrumman?src=hash)

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(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/31159.jpg)NASA Wallops‏Подлинная учетная запись @NASA_Wallops (https://twitter.com/NASA_Wallops) 3:13 (https://twitter.com/NASA_Wallops/status/1063751963916025856) - 17 нояб. 2018 г.

#Cygnus (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cygnus?src=hash) has already made its way around the world (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/125296.png) The solar panels have deployed, marking another milestone in the cargo spacecraft's two-day journey to the @Space_Station (https://twitter.com/Space_Station).

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Цитировать11/17/2018 14:21 Stephen Clark

NASA confirms both solar arrays on the Cygnus spacecraft are now generating electricity.

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/185703.jpg)Northrop Grumman‏Подлинная учетная запись @northropgrumman (https://twitter.com/northropgrumman) 3:19 (https://twitter.com/northropgrumman/status/1063753585299779584) - 17 нояб. 2018 г.

Do you have photos of our NG-10 launch from Wallops this morning? Use #Antares (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Antares?src=hash) and #Cygnus (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cygnus?src=hash) so we can see them too! #NorthropGrumman (https://twitter.com/hashtag/NorthropGrumman?src=hash)

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ЦитироватьCygnus Solar Arrays Deployed

Rob Garner (https://blogs.nasa.gov/northropgrumman/author/rcgarner/)
Posted Nov 17, 2018 at 6:21 am

Northrop Grumman has confirmed that the Cygnus' two solar arrays are deployed and receiving power.

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File photo of a Cygnus spacecraft with its solar arrays deployed. This Cygnus spacecraft with its cymbal-like UltraFlex solar arrays deployed was pictured departing the International Space Station Dec. 5, 2017, during Expedition 53. Credit: NASA

Arrival of the Cygnus at the space station is scheduled for Nov. 19. Cygnus carries about 7,400 pounds of crew supplies and hardware, including science and research in support of dozens of research investigations.

Northrop Grumman's Cygnus cargo spacecraft was launched aboard the company's Antares rocket from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia at 4:01 a.m. EST Nov. 17. The flight is Northrop Grumman's 10th contracted cargo resupply mission for NASA to the space station.

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/29262.jpg)Jeff Foust‏ @jeff_foust (https://twitter.com/jeff_foust) 3:34 (https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/1063757310978387968) - 17 нояб. 2018 г.

Northrop's Frank DeMauro says at a post-launch briefing that the Cygnus is "extremely healthy" after launch. Spacecraft set to arrive at the ISS early Monday; capture scheduled for 5:20am EST. #NG10 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/NG10?src=hash)

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/29262.jpg)Jeff Foust‏ @jeff_foust (https://twitter.com/jeff_foust) 3:50 (https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/1063761268857819136) - 17 нояб. 2018 г.

Northrop's Kurt Eberly notes that with the next Antares mission, NG-11 in April, they'll change pre-launch operations; go out to the pad earlier, then go horizontal and bring out a "mobile clean room" to enable late load (24 hours before launch) of cargo into Cygnus.

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/29262.jpg)Jeff Foust‏ @jeff_foust (https://twitter.com/jeff_foust) 3:56 (https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/1063762861233586177) - 17 нояб. 2018 г.

Eberly also announced that Frank Culbertson, president of the space systems group at Northrop (formerly Orbital ATK) and a former astronaut, will be retiring from the company.

ЦитироватьCRS-10 Launch Blog Coverage Concludes

Rob Garner (https://blogs.nasa.gov/northropgrumman/author/rcgarner/)
Posted Nov 17, 2018 at 6:56 am

Northrop Grumman's Cygnus spacecraft is on its way to the International Space Station (http://www.nasa.gov/station) with about 7,400 pounds of cargo after launching at 4:01 a.m. EST Saturday from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia's Eastern Shore.

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The Northrop Grumman Antares rocket, with Cygnus resupply spacecraft aboard, launched from Pad-0A, Saturday, Nov. 17, 2018, at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky

The spacecraft launched on an Antares 230 Rocket from the Virginia Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport's Pad 0A at Wallops on the company's 10th cargo delivery flight, and is scheduled to arrive at the orbital laboratory Monday, Nov. 19. Expedition 57 astronauts Serena Auñón-Chancellor (https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/serena-m-aunon-chancellor) of NASA and Alexander Gerst of ESA (European Space Agency) will use the space station's robotic arm to grapple Cygnus about 5:20 a.m. Installation coverage will begin at 4 a.m. on NASA Television and the agency's website (http://www.nasa.gov/live).

ЦитироватьNov. 17, 2018
RELEASE 18-100

NASA, Northrop Grumman Launch Space Station, National Lab Cargo

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Northrop Grumman's Cygnus spacecraft launches on an Antares rocket at 4:01 a.m. EST Nov. 17, 2018, from the Virginia Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport's Pad-0A at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Northrop Grumman's 10th contracted cargo resupply mission for NASA to the International Space Station will deliver about 7,400 pounds of science and research, crew supplies and vehicle hardware to the orbital laboratory and its crew.
Credits: NASA/Joel Kowsky

Northrop Grumman's Cygnus spacecraft is on its way to the International Space Station (http://www.nasa.gov/station) with about 7,400 pounds of cargo after launching at 4:01 a.m. EST Saturday from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia's Eastern Shore.

The spacecraft launched on an Antares 230 Rocket from the Virginia Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport's Pad 0A at Wallops on the company's 10th cargo delivery flight, and is scheduled to arrive at the orbital laboratory Monday, Nov. 19. Expedition 57 astronauts Serena Auñón-Chancellor (https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/serena-m-aunon-chancellor) of NASA and Alexander Gerst of ESA (European Space Agency) will use the space station's robotic arm to grapple Cygnus about 5:20 a.m. Installation coverage will begin at 4 a.m. on NASA Television and the agency's website (http://www.nasa.gov/live).

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This Commercial Resupply Services contract mission will support dozens of new and existing investigations as Expeditions 57 and 58 contribute to some 250 science and research studies. Highlights from the new experiments (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/ng-10_research_highlights) include a demonstration of 3D printing and recycling technology and simulating the creation of celestial bodies from stardust.

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Recycling and Fabrication in Space

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The Refabricator (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=7321) is the first-ever 3D printer and recycler integrated into one user-friendly machine. Once it's installed in the space station, it will demonstrate recycling of waste plastic and previously 3D printed parts already on-board into high-quality filament (i.e. 3D printer 'ink'). This recycled filament will then be fed into the printer to make new tools and parts on-demand in space. This technology could enable closed-loop, sustainable fabrication, repair and recycling on long-duration space missions, and greatly reduce the need to continually launch large supplies of new material and parts for repairs and maintenance.

The demonstration, which NASA's Space Technology Mission and Human Exploration and Operations Directorates co-sponsored, is considered a key enabling technology for in-space manufacturing. NASA awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (http://sbir.nasa.gov/#_blank) contract valued to Tethers Unlimited Inc. (http://www.tethers.com/#_blank) to build the recycling system.

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Formation of the Early Solar System

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The Experimental Chondrule Formation at the International Space Station (EXCISS (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=7785)) investigation will explore how planets, moons and other objects in space formed by simulating the high-energy, low-gravity conditions that were present during formation of the early solar system. Scientists plan to zap a specially formulated dust with an electrical current, and then study the shape and texture of the resulting pellets.

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Understanding Parkinson's Disease

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The Crystallization of LRRK2 Under Microgravity Conditions-2 (PCG-16 (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=7855)) investigation grows large crystals of an important protein, leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2), in microgravity for analysis back on Earth. This protein is implicated in development of Parkinson's disease, and improving our knowledge of its structure may help scientists better understand the pathology of the disease and develop therapies to treat it. LRRK2 crystals grown in gravity are too small and too compact to study, making microgravity an essential part of this research. This investigation is sponsored by the U.S. National Laboratory (https://www.iss-casis.org/) on the space station, which Congress designated in 2005 to maximize its use for improving quality of life on Earth.

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The Cygnus spacecraft will remain at the space station until February before its destructive reentry into Earth's atmosphere, disposing of several thousand pounds of trash. This is the seventh flight of an enhanced Cygnus spacecraft, and the fourth using Northrop Grumman's upgraded Antares 230 launch vehicle featuring new RD-181 engines that provide increased performance and flexibility.

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The spacecraft for this mission is named in honor of astronaut John Young (https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/young_john.pdf). Young was sel ected for NASA's second astronaut class and flew during the Gemini, Apollo and Space Shuttle programs. He walked on the Moon during Apollo 16 in 1972 and commanded the first space shuttle mission in 1981. Young passed away in January.

For more than 18 years, humans have lived and worked continuously aboard the International Space Station, advancing scientific knowledge and demonstrating new technologies, making research breakthroughs not possible on Earth that will enable long-duration human and robotic exploration into deep space. A global endeavor, 230 people from 18 countries have visited the unique microgravity laboratory that has hosted more than 2,500 research investigations fr om researchers in 106 countries.

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Last Updated: Nov. 17, 2018
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[SIZE=8]Northrop Grumman Successfully Launches 10th Cargo Delivery Mission to the International Space Station for NASA[/SIZE]

S.S. John Young to berth with the space station on Nov. 19

November 17, 2018

Dulles, Va. – Nov. 17, 2018 – Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) announced it successfully launched its AntaresTM rocket carrying the "S.S. John Young" CygnusTM spacecraft today at 4:01 a.m. EST from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Pad 0A on Wallops Island, Virginia, at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility. The launch marks Northrop Grumman's 10th cargo mission carrying vital supplies to the astronauts aboard the International Space Station for NASA.

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Northrop Grumman's Antares rocket launched the company's Cygnus spacecraft carrying about 7,400 pounds of cargo for the International Space Station on Nov. 17, 2018.

"Congratulations to the entire NASA, Virginia Space and Northrop Grumman team on another successful Antares launch," said Scott Lehr, president, flight systems group, Northrop Grumman. "As always, we are dedicated and focused on delivering mission success for NASA's commercial resupply program."

The Antares medium-class rocket carried approximately 7,400 pounds (3,350 kilograms) of vital supplies and scientific equipment aboard Cygnus. Following an approximate nine-minute ascent, the Cygnus spacecraft was successfully deployed into orbit. Northrop Grumman engineering teams confirmed reliable communications have been established and the vehicle's solar arrays are fully deployed, providing the necessary electrical power to operate the spacecraft.

On this mission, the name of the spacecraft honors NASA astronaut John Young. Young was NASA's longest-serving astronaut and a pioneer in the field of human spaceflight who positioned future astronauts to live and work at the International Space Station. His bravery and record-setting accomplishments pushed the boundaries of human space exploration, making him an ideal honoree for the NG-10 mission.

"The timing of this mission could not be more appropriate with the launch of the S.S. John Young occurring just days before the upcoming 20th anniversary of the International Space Station," said Frank Culbertson, president, space systems group, Northrop Grumman. "It has been an honor to support the critical research that has been performed on the International Space Station for nearly two decades. We look forward to expanding our role with Cygnus through future abilities such as increased science accommodation and extended stays in orbit."

Cygnus will be grappled at approximately 5:20 a.m. EST on Nov. 19. The spacecraft will remain attached to the space station for approximately two months before departing with up to 7,400 pounds (approximately 3,350 kilograms) of disposal cargo. Cygnus' large pressurized volume allows for large amounts of cargo to be efficiently carried to the space station and also provides significant cargo disposal capability, which is a critical service for NASA and unique among America's commercial cargo providers.

Upon departure from the space station, Cygnus will deploy three CubeSats via the NanoRacks External Cygnus CubeSat Deployment program, from both above and below the orbiting laboratory for the first time. One of the CubeSats, known as MYSat-1, is the first satellite developed by Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. MYSat-1 was developed as part of Khalifa's Space Systems and Technology Concentration, a joint program established in 2015 in collaboration with UAE-based satellite operator Al Yah Satellite Communications Company (Yahsat) and Northrop Grumman. Engineers from both companies helped develop the initial curriculum for the concentration, and provided guidance and mentorship during the design phase of the MYSat-1 satellite.

As another example of Cygnus' expanded capabilities, the spacecraft is prepared to support the Slingshot CubeSat Deployer System, a flexible platform that can fly hosted payloads and CubeSats. The mission is the first flight for the Slingshot system, which is scheduled to be installed onto the Cygnus spacecraft by NASA astronauts before the spacecraft departs the orbiting laboratory. Upon completion of its secondary missions, Cygnus will perform a safe, destructive reentry into Earth's atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean. Details about the NG-10 mission can be viewed here.

Under the Commercial Resupply Services (CRS)-1 contract with NASA, Northrop Grumman will deliver approximately 66,000 pounds (30,000 kilograms) of cargo to the International Space Station. Beginning in 2019, Northrop Grumman will carry out a minimum of six initial cargo missions under NASA's CRS-2 contract. The commercial resupply partnership with NASA is enhancing a robust American commercial space industry, freeing NASA to focus on developing the next-generation rocket and spacecraft that will enable humans to conduct deep space exploration missions.

ЦитироватьPost Launch Briefing for Antares Cygnus NG-10 Mission

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Mission managers discuss the successful launch of the Antares rocket with the Cygnus NG-10 cargo spacecraft onboard.

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Now, let's get talking about the customer payloads we have on board tomorrow's @northropgrumman (https://twitter.com/northropgrumman) launch! #EXCISS (https://twitter.com/hashtag/EXCISS?src=hash), a #German (https://twitter.com/hashtag/German?src=hash) student experiment from @DreamUp_Space (https://twitter.com/DreamUp_Space) and @DLR_en (https://twitter.com/DLR_en)'s Überflieger contest, is studying planet formation on the particle level inside a #NanoLab (https://twitter.com/hashtag/NanoLab?src=hash).
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Next, we've got three #CubeSats (https://twitter.com/hashtag/CubeSats?src=hash) on board: #MySat1 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/MySat1?src=hash), the second #CHEFSat (https://twitter.com/hashtag/CHEFSat?src=hash), and #KickSat2 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/KickSat2?src=hash). But there's something extra special about these satellites on our External #Cygnus (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cygnus?src=hash) Deployer...we're deploying them both above AND below @Space_Station (https://twitter.com/Space_Station) orbit. #NG10 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/NG10?src=hash)

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.#MySat1 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/MySat1?src=hash) is extra special for us - a new nation has joined NanoRacks' @Space_Station (https://twitter.com/Space_Station) family. This is our 1st #CubeSat (https://twitter.com/hashtag/CubeSat?src=hash) program from #UAE (https://twitter.com/hashtag/UAE?src=hash), in coordination with @northropgrumman (https://twitter.com/northropgrumman). @yahsatofficial (https://twitter.com/yahsatofficial) & @KhalifaUni (https://twitter.com/KhalifaUni) are bringing education & advanced research together in one mission. #NG10 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/NG10?src=hash)

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Once #CHEFSat (https://twitter.com/hashtag/CHEFSat?src=hash) & #MySat1 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/MySat1?src=hash) are deployed above #ISS (https://twitter.com/hashtag/ISS?src=hash) altitude, #Cygnus (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cygnus?src=hash) will travel well below @Space_Station (https://twitter.com/Space_Station) to deploy #KickSat2 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/KickSat2?src=hash), a #CubeSat (https://twitter.com/hashtag/CubeSat?src=hash) from @NASAAmes (https://twitter.com/NASAAmes) & @Stanford (https://twitter.com/Stanford). #KickSat2 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/KickSat2?src=hash) will release small #ChipSats (https://twitter.com/hashtag/ChipSats?src=hash), tiny spacecraft on circuit boards, which will burn up after a few days #NG10 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/NG10?src=hash)

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ЦитироватьAntares rocket launches cargo run to International Space Station
November 17, 2018 (https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/11/) | Stephen Clark (https://spaceflightnow.com/author/stephen-clark/)

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An Antares rocket lifts off at 4:01 a.m. EST (0901 GMT) Saturday at pad 0A at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island, Virginia. Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky

A Northrop Grumman Antares rocket and Cygnus cargo carrier climbed into orbit Saturday fr om Wallops Island, Virginia, in pursuit of the International Space Station with more than 7,200 pounds of research hardware and provisions, the second supply ship launch to the space station in less than 24 hours.

The unpiloted commercial cargo ship rode the 139-foot-tall (42.5-meter) Antares rocket away fr om the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, a facility owned by the state of Virginia on the Atlantic coastline at Wallops Island.

The Antares rocket's first stage, with fuel tanks built in Ukraine and Russian-made RD-181 engines, propelled the launcher into a clear predawn sky with 864,000 pounds of thrust. The Antares guidance computer commanded the engines to gently pivot, steering the rocket toward the southeast over the Atlantic Ocean to align with the space station's pathway.

Three-and-a-half minutes into the flight, the first stage shut down and separated, leaving the Antares upper stage — powered by a solid-fueled U.S.-built Castor 30XL rocket motor — to finish the job of accelerating the Cygnus supply ship into orbit.

The Cygnus spacecraft separated fr om the Antares upper stage around nine minutes after liftoff, arriving in an on-target preliminary orbit to begin a two-day chase of the space station, culminating in its capture by the lab's robotic arm at 5:20 a.m. EST (1020 GMT) Monday.

"Not only was it a beautiful launch this morning, it put Cygnus exactly wh ere we wanted it in orbit," said Frank DeMauro, vice president of advanced programs at Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems, which developed and owns the Antares rocket and Cygnus spacecraft. "The spacecraft after separation, we were able to communicate (with it) extremely quickly and start conditioning. We initialized the guidance system and the propulsion system. That all checked out really well.

"Then we began the process of deploying the solar arrays, which I'm happy to report have been successfully deployed and are generating lots and lots of power, so the spacecraft is extremely healthy and is ready to begin its trek to the ISS," DeMauro told reporters after launch.

The Cygnus spacecraft joined a Russian Progress resupply freighter in orbit following its launch Friday from Kazakhstan. The Progress cargo capsule is due to arrive at the space station with a docking around 2:30 p.m. EST (1930 GMT) Sunday, followed by the capture of Cygnus with the station's robotic arm at 5:20 a.m. EST (1020 GMT) Monday.

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File photo of a Cygnus supply ship with its fan-like UltraFlex solar arrays unfurled. Credit: NASA
The Antares launch in Virginia was delayed two days by rainy weather.

"While we were waiting on the weather out here at Wallops, we had an awesome Progress launch out of Baikonur, Kazakhstan on Friday," said Joel Montalbano, NASA's deputy space station program manager. "We're looking forward to both vehicles being attached to the International Space Station and the crew working on them getting the science, getting the research out, getting all the equipment that we've bought up on these vehicles, and continuing the great work we do on the International Space Station."

NASA astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor will be at the controls of the station's Canadian-built robotic arm to snag the Cygnus cargo craft Monday. She is joined by European Space Agency commander Alexander Gerst and Russian cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev on the orbiting outpost 250 miles (400 kilometers) above Earth.

Two additional crew members were supposed to be on the station, but their launch was aborted two minutes after liftoff Oct. 11 aboard a Soyuz rocket from Kazakhstan. Soyuz commander Alexey Ovchinin and NASA astronaut Nick Hague safely landed downrange after the launch emergency.

The accident left the station with a three-person crew for weeks longer than anticipated, until three fresh crew members launch on another Soyuz flight Dec. 3. Gerst and company will depart the station in their Soyuz landing craft Dec. 20, leaving the three newly-arrived residents in orbit until another Soyuz crew arrives in the spring.

With only three people on the station — rather than the typical five or six — Montalbano said some research activities have been reprioritized, but operations have not been significantly impacted.

"As far as science, with two less people ... you'll do a little less activities on-board, but it's just for a short time, and actually the crew members on-board have picked it up, and they've been really working hard and picking up the things that had to get done," he said. "Any science or research that's time-critical, it's being done, and we're reprioritizing other activities, so from that standpoint, we're doing actually very well."

The Cygnus supply ship — flying on the NG-10 cargo mission — is set to deliver 7,215 pounds (3,273 kilograms) of supplies and experiments to the space station, including a plastic recycler and 3D printer built to advance in-space manufacturing capabilities, and an experiment studying how the human body's ability to perceive motion, orientation and distance changes in microgravity.

The recycler and printer, called the Refabricator, is a tech demo aimed at analyzing how future space missions could manufacture tools and spare parts on-board, without requiring resupply from Earth. It was developed by Tethers Unlimited under contract to NASA.

"At Tethers, we developed, designed and tested the Refabricator," said Allison Porter, flight missions manager at the company based near Seattle. "Basically, we're melting down polymers and making them into 3D printer filament ... Once the Refabricator recycles and makes new filament, we are able to print new parts."

The space station already has a 3D printer on-board provided by a company named Made in Space. But that device, intended as a proof-of-concept for 3D printing in space, needs fresh material from Earth to be fed into it.

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Principal investigator Allison Porter with the Refabricator flight unit. Credit: Emmett Givens/NASA

"When all the results were in, we found out that there were no engineering significant microgravity effects," said Diane Risdon, In-Space Manufacturing Refabricator project lead at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama. "So now we have our 3D printer, we know that it works in space. The next thing is wh ere do we get the filament? ... Do we have to upload that? We're trying to avoid large masses being uploaded, so we've got to find a sustainable source for filament.

"On the ISS, we know that there's multitudes and multitudes of plastic baggies," she continued. "The crew complains, what do we do with all of these baggies? They also have packaging — plastic packaging — they use food plastic containers, plastic medical devices, so periodically they round up all this trash and burn them in space.

"We're thinking, well, there's our resource," Risdon said. "If we can recycle these, then we're on our way to getting our filament."

Another science investigation aboard the Cygnus spacecraft will examine the processes at the origin of the solar system that led the formation of dust particles that eventually grew into larger objects, leading to the birth of the planets. The experiment, led by researchers at Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany, "zaps a specially formulated dust with an electrical current and then studies the shape and texture of pellets formed from these steps in the absence of gravity," according to a NASA overview of the investigation.

Here's a breakdown of the cargo manifest provided by NASA:

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• 2,515.5 pounds (1,141 kilograms) of crew supplies
• 2,301.6 pounds (1,044 kilograms) of science investigations
• 2,076.8 pounds (942 kilograms) of vehicle hardware
• 253.5 pounds (115 kilograms) of computer resources
• 68.3 pounds (31 kilograms) of spacewalk equipment
  

The Cygnus supply ship is expected to remain berthed at the International Space Station's Unity module until mid-February, when it will be released by the station's robotic arm.

The automated cargo carrier, loaded with trash after its departure from the station, will fire its engine to climb into a higher orbit roughly 300 miles (500 kilometers) above Earth to deploy two CubeSats.

One of the nanosatellites is MYSat 1, a 1U CubeSat around the size of a Rubik's cube. Carrying two payloads — camera and a lithion-ion coil cell battery — MYSat 1 was built by Masdar Institute of Science and Technology in Abu Dhabi with the support of Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems and Al Yah Satellite Communications Company in the United Arab Emirates.

The other CubeSat set for release in the higher orbit is CHEFSat 2 from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory.

About the size of a shoebox, CHEFSat 2 is a copy of a CubeSat launched on a Cygnus cargo mission to the space station last November. CHEFSat 2 will test commercial off-the-shelf technologies to evaluate their performance in space, focusing on new radio communications capabilities.

Cygnus will lower its orbit below the space station's altitude after releasing MYSat 1 and CHEFSat 2, targeting an altitude of around 200 miles (325 kilometers) for separation of KickSat 2, a NASA-sponsored CubeSat mission led by principal investigator Zac Manchester at Stanford University.

KickSat 2 carries 100 tiny "sprites" — essentially 1.4-inch (3.5-centimeter) square circuit boards with integrated power, computing, sensing and communication equipment. The mission is a follow-up to the KickSat mission that launched in 2014, but failed to release its sprites in orbit.

The mission will test the limits of satellite miniaturization, a trend toward affordability widely popularized by the CubeSat design over the last two decades. But KickSat's sprites are a tiny fraction of the size of a CubeSat.

KickSat 2 will eject its sprites at a lower altitude to ensure the circuit boards re-enter Earth's atmosphere in a matter of weeks, avoiding the possibility of the sprites, which could be difficult to track with ground-based radars, becoming a long-term space debris threat to other satellites.

The Cygnus was supposed to carry more than a half-dozen additional CubeSats inside its internal cabin for eventual release through an airlock on the space station. But those were all removed from the cargo manifest, and deferred to future launches, according to Scott Higginbotham, a mission manager for NASA's Educational Launch of Nanosatellites program at the Kennedy Space Center.

Two of the CubeSats originally booked to fly on the NG-10 mission — named UNITE and TechEdSat 8 from Purdue University and NASA's Ames Research Center — will launch on SpaceX's next resupply flight to the station no earlier than Dec. 4, Higginbotham said. The others will place on future Northrop Grumman or SpaceX cargo launches.

Managers also decided not to launch a secondary payload on the Antares rocket's second stage.

Around 60 "ThinSat" wafers, each about the size of a slice of bread, were to be deployed from the Antares rocket soon after arriving in orbit, well below the space station's altitude, wh ere they will quickly re-enter the atmosphere and burn up. Using a standardized form factor, children from middle school age to university students integrated sensor and transmitter hardware on the ThinSats with the support of the Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority, Twiggs Space Lab, Northrop Grumman, and NASA's Wallops Flight Facility.

The first ThinSats were supposed to fly on the NG-10 launch, but they will now launch on the next Antares mission in April.

Officials agreed to remove the ThinSats from Saturday's launch to ensure the tiny wafers do not pose a collision hazard with the Progress supply ship, according to Dale Nash, CEO of Virginia Space. While there is no concern the ThinSats could be a threat to the space station itself, the Progress was orbiting around the same altitude the tiny chips were to be released.

The Cygnus supply ship launched Saturday is named the S.S. John Young, in honor of the NASA astronaut who flew on six space missions — Gemini 3, Gemini 10, Apollo 10, Apollo 16, STS-1 and STS-9. Young was co-pilot on the first flight of NASA's Gemini spacecraft in 1965, walked on the moon during Apollo 16 in 1972, and commanded the first space shuttle mission in 1981. He died in January.

The unpiloted Cygnus cargo hauler is comprised of two modules — a service and propulsion module built by Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems in Dulles, Virginia, and a pressurized logistics module built by Thales Alenia Space in Turin, Italy.

NG-10 is the first Cygnus flight since Northrop Grumman acquired Orbital ATK, which developed and flew the previous cargo missions under an 11-launch contract with NASA valued at $2.89 billion.

Starting with NG-12, set for launch in late 2019, Northrop Grumman will kick off a follow-on commercial resupply services contract, guaranteeing the company at least six additional flights through 2024.

SpaceX also launches cargo to the space station for NASA, and the space agency has tapped Sierra Nevada Corp. to begin resupplying the research complex in late 2020

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ЦитироватьNorthrop Grumman Launches New Cargo Ship to Space Station

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Опубликовано: 17 нояб. 2018 г.

An unpiloted Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo ship launched fr om the Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia Nov. 17, bound for a delivery run to the International Space Station with several tons of supplies and scientific experiments. The "SS John Young", named after the iconic NASA astronaut who died in January, lifted from Pad 0A at Wallops atop an Antares rocket on a three-day journey to reach the station wh ere it will be robotically captured and installed on the Earth-facing port of the Unity module for a three-month stay.

ЦитироватьBriefing Discusses Post-launch Status of Space Station Supply Mission

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Опубликовано: 17 нояб. 2018 г.

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Стыковка корабля Cygnus с МКС намечена на 19 ноября

Корабль доставит груз массой более 3,3 тонны, в основном продовольствие

НЬЮ-ЙОРК, 17 ноября. /ТАСС/. ...

Старт ракеты-носителя Antares с Cygnus и грузом для МКС состоялся в субботу в 04:01 (12:01 мск) с космодрома на острове Уоллопс (штат Вирджиния) в Атлантическом океане. "Корабль, запущенный на борту ракеты Antares со стартового стола космопорта в Вирджинии на острове Уоллопс, является десятой миссией по обеспечению [МКС], выполняемой компанией [Northrop Grumman], его прибытие к орбитальной лаборатории запланировано на понедельник, 19 ноября", - информировало NASA.

Стыковка корабля с МКС поручена астронавту NASA Серине Ауньен-Чэнселлор и астронавту Александеру Герсту из Европейского космического агентства. Начало этой операции намечено на 05:20 по времени Восточного побережья США (13:20 мск).

3D-принтер и преобразователь отходов в одном флаконе

Корабль доставит на МКС груз массой более 3,3 тонны, в основном продовольствие, запчасти и оборудование для научных исследований. В том числе речь идет о Refabricator, представляющем собой рабочую модель 3D-принтера, совмещенного с преобразователем отходов. Данный аппарат предназначен для демонстрации возможности переработки пластиковых отходов, уже имеющихся на станции, в сырье, пригодное для 3D-принтера, и выпуска деталей и запчастей, необходимых экипажу в полете. Refabricator позволит экономить на доставке с Земли подобной продукции, поясняет NASA.

Еще один прибор под названием CASIS PCG-16 предназначен для выращивания молекул протеина в крупные кристаллы в условиях невесомости. В качестве образца выбран белок, участвующий в процессе развития болезни Паркинсона. Опыты с этим прибором на орбите могут помочь ученым лучше понять патологию данного заболевания и разработать методы его лечения, уточнило космическое ведомство США.
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Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/67516.jpg)Jonathan McDowell‏Подлинная учетная запись @planet4589 (https://twitter.com/planet4589) 20:27 (https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/1064012310551891968) - 17 нояб. 2018 г.

As of this evening, ISS in a 402 x 409 km orbit. Progress MS-10 in 255 x 268 km trailing by half an hour, SS John Young in 211 x 263 km, leading ISS by about 3 min

ЦитироватьRussian Cargo Craft Docks to Station and Delivers Goods

Mark Garcia (https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/author/magarcia/)
Posted Nov 18, 2018 at 2:30 pm

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In addition to the arrival of Progress today, a Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft is on its way to the space station with about 7,400 pounds of cargo after launching at 4:01 a.m. Saturday from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia's Eastern Shore.

The Cygnus spacecraft is scheduled to arrive at the orbital laboratory Monday, Nov. 19. Expedition 57 astronauts Serena Auñón-Chancellor (https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/serena-m-aunon-chancellor) of NASA and Alexander Gerst of ESA (European Space Agency) will use the space station's robotic arm to grapple Cygnus about 5:20 a.m. Watch installation coverage beginning at 4 a.m. on NASA Television and the agency's website (http://www.nasa.gov/live).

Цитировать11/19/2018 09:24 Stephen Clark

A Northrop Grumman Cygnus supply ship carrying more than 7,200 pounds of provisions and experiments is approaching the International Space Station two days after its launch fr om Virginia, due for capture by the station's robotic arm at 5:20 a.m. EST (1020 GMT) Monday.

Astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor will take control of the station's robotic arm to grapple the Cygnus spacecraft when it maneuvers to a hold position around 30 feet (10 meters) below the complex.

Ground controllers will then command the arm to place Cygnus on the Earth-facing port of the Unity module, wh ere a series of bolts will drive closed to connect the cargo craft to the space station for a nearly three-month stay.

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186040.jpg)Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight) 1:48 (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/1064455270791811072) - 19 нояб. 2018 г.

Almost looks like CGI, but this is a live cam view of Cygnus closing in on capture at the ISS.

35m hold point.

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Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186040.jpg)Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight) 1:55 (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/1064457238625075200) - 19 нояб. 2018 г.

Orbital sunrise:

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Цитировать11/19/2018 13:31 Capture confirmed Stephen Clark

Capture confirmed! The Cygnus spacecraft is now in the grasp of the International Space Station's robotic arm after a manual grapple under the control of astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor.

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Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/185339.jpg)NASA‏Подлинная учетная запись @NASA (https://twitter.com/NASA) 2:41 (https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1064468610834464769) - 19 нояб. 2018 г.

Captured cargo! At 5:28am ET, @AstroSerena (https://twitter.com/AstroSerena) used the @Space_Station (https://twitter.com/Space_Station)'s robotic arm to capture @northropgrumman (https://twitter.com/northropgrumman)'s Cygnus spacecraft as @Astro_Alex (https://twitter.com/Astro_Alex) monitored #Cygnus (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cygnus?src=hash)' systems during its approach. ...

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186040.jpg)Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight) 4:32 (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/1064496568722698245) - 19 нояб. 2018 г.

And now berthed. First and Second Stage capture confirmed!

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Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/185703.jpg)Northrop Grumman‏Подлинная учетная запись @northropgrumman (https://twitter.com/northropgrumman) 4:36 (https://twitter.com/northropgrumman/status/1064497745065594880) - 19 нояб. 2018 г.

Installation complete! Our S.S. John Young #Cygnus (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cygnus?src=hash) has been installed to the @Space_Station (https://twitter.com/Space_Station). Cygnus is delivering ~7,400 pounds of cargo and science experiments to the crew on board.

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/184924.jpg)Intl. Space Station‏Подлинная учетная запись @Space_Station (https://twitter.com/Space_Station) 4:35 (https://twitter.com/Space_Station/status/1064497296757411840) - 19 нояб. 2018 г.

The @NorthropGrumman (https://twitter.com/northropgrumman) Cygnus cargo ship was bolted onto the space station's Unity module at 7:31am ET today as both spacecraft orbited above eastern China. https://go.nasa.gov/2BgprqS  (https://t.co/qqnQQ851Sd)

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ЦитироватьNG CRS-10: SS John Young Cygnus capture

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Опубликовано: 19 нояб. 2018 г.

ЦитироватьNG CRS-10: SS John Young Cygnus berthing

SciNews (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjU6ZwoTQtKWfz1urL7XcbA)

Опубликовано: 19 нояб. 2018 г.

ЦитироватьU.S. Space Freighter Captured by NASA Astronaut

Mark Garcia (https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/author/magarcia/)
Posted Nov 19, 2018 at 5:38 am

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The Cygnus space freighter is pictured moments after it was captured by the Canadarm2 robotic arm operated by NASA astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor. Credit: NASA TV

At 5:28 a.m. EST, Expedition 57 Flight Engineer Serena Auñón-Chancellor of NASA used the International Space Station's robotic Canadarm2 to grapple the Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft as Alexander Gerst of ESA (European Space Agency), monitored Cygnus' systems during its approach. Next, ground controllers will command the station's arm to rotate and install Cygnus, dubbed the SS John Young, on the bottom of the station's Unity module.

NASA Television coverage of installation will begin at 6:45 a.m., and installation of the Cygnus spacecraft to the space station is expected to be completed later this morning.

ЦитироватьCanadian Robotic Arm Installs U.S. Cygnus Cargo Ship to Station

Mark Garcia (https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/author/magarcia/)
Posted Nov 19, 2018 at 7:32 am

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The International Space Station heads into an orbital sunset as the Canadarm2 robotic arm guides the Cygnus space freighter to its installation point on the Unity module. Credit: NASA TV

The Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo ship was bolted into place on the International Space Station's Earth-facing port of the Unity module at 7:31 a.m. EST. The spacecraft will spend about three months attached to the space station before departing in February 2019. After it leaves the station, the uncrewed spacecraft will deploy several CubeSats before its fiery re-entry into Earth's atmosphere as it disposes of several tons of trash.

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The spacecraft's arrival brings close to 7,400 pounds of research and supplies to space station. Highlights of NASA-sponsored research to advance exploration goals and enable future missions to the Moon and Mars include:

Sensory input in microgravity

Changes in sensory input in microgravity may be misinterpreted and cause a person to make errors in estimation of velocity, distance or orientation. VECTION (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=7484) examines this effect as well as whether people adapt to altered sensory input on long-duration missions and how that adaptation changes upon return to Earth. Using a virtual reality display, astronauts estimate the distance to an object, length of an object and orientation of their bodies in space. Tests are conducted before, during and after flight. The investigation is named for a visual illusion of self-movement, called vection, which occurs when an individual is still but sees the world moving past, according to principal investigator Laurence Harris. The Canadian Space Agency (CSA (https://www.canada.ca/en/space-agency.html)) sponsors the investigation.

Solidifying cement in space

The MVP-Cell 05 (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=7874) investigation uses a centrifuge to provide a variable gravity environment to study the complex process of cement solidification, a step toward eventually making and using concrete on extraterrestrial bodies. These tests are a follow-on to the previous studies known as Microgravity Investigation of Cement Solidification (MICS), which studied cement solidification in microgravity.  Together, these tests will help engineers better understand the microstructure and material properties of cement, leading to design of safer, lightweight space habitats and improving cement processing techniques on Earth. This investigation is sponsored by NASA.

Investigations sponsored by the U.S. National Laboratory (https://www.iss-casis.org/) on the space station, which Congress designated in 2005 to maximize its use for improving quality of life on Earth, include:

From stardust to solar systems

Much of the universe was created when dust from star-based processes clumped into intermediate-sized particles and eventually became planets, moons and other objects. Many questions remain as to just how this worked, though. The EXCISS (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=7785) investigation seeks answers by simulating the high-energy, low gravity conditions that were present during formation of the early solar system. Scientists plan to zap a specially formulated dust with an electrical current, then study the shape and texture of pellets formed.

Principal investigator Tamara Koch explains that the dust is made up of particles of forsterite (Mg2SiO4), the main mineral in many meteorites and related to olivine, also known as the gemstone peridot. The particles are about the diameter of a human hair.

Growing crystals to fight Parkinson's disease

The CASIS PCG-16 (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=7855) investigation grows large crystals of an important protein, Leucine-rich repeat kinase 2, or LRRK2, in microgravity for analysis back on Earth. This protein is implicated in development of Parkinson's disease, and improving our knowledge of its structure may help scientists better understand the pathology of the disease and develop therapies to treat it. Crystals of LRRK2 grown in gravity are too small and too compact to study, making microgravity an essential part of this research.

Better gas separation membranes

Membranes represent one of the most energy-efficient and cost-effective technologies for separating and removing carbon dioxide from waste gases, thereby reducing greenhouse gas emissions. CEMSICA (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=7721) tests membranes made from particles of calcium-silicate (C-S) with pores 100 nanometers or smaller. Producing these membranes in microgravity may resolve some of the challenges of their manufacture on Earth and lead to development of lower-cost, more durable membranes that use less energy. The technology ultimately may help reduce the harmful effects of CO2 emissions on the planet.

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Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/67516.jpg)Jonathan McDowell‏Подлинная учетная запись @planet4589 (https://twitter.com/planet4589) 3 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/1064530895099633664)

The S.S. John Young robot cargo ship has arrived at the ISS, entering the 200-m keepout sphere at 0925 UTC. The Canadarm-2 robot arm grappled it at 1028 UTC and berthed it at the nadir port of the Unity module at about 1232 UTC.

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/185359.jpg)S. Auñón-Chancellor‏Подлинная учетная запись @AstroSerena (https://twitter.com/AstroSerena) 6:25 (https://twitter.com/AstroSerena/status/1064525042208395264) - 19 нояб. 2018 г.

Captured Cygnus today with @Astro_Alex (https://twitter.com/Astro_Alex)...Proud to have The SS John Young on-board!

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Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/185566.jpg)Alexander Gerst‏Подлинная учетная запись @Astro_Alex (https://twitter.com/Astro_Alex) 6:01 (https://twitter.com/Astro_Alex/status/1064519093263495168) - 19 нояб. 2018 г.

Busy times for #Exp57 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Exp57?src=hash). We just caught the 2nd cargo vehicle in one day, first time in @Space_Station (https://twitter.com/Space_Station) history. @AstroSerena (https://twitter.com/AstroSerena) operated the #Canadarm (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Canadarm?src=hash) while I sent navigation commands to the #Cygnus (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cygnus?src=hash) vehicle, great teamwork. Welcome aboard "S.S. John Young"! #Horizons (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Horizons?src=hash)

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ЦитироватьУспешный пуск РН «Антарес» на двигателях РД-181
17 ноября ракета-носитель Antares стартовала с космодрома Валлопс (штат Виргиния) в 12:01 мск.
Успешный пуск РН «Антарес» обеспечили двигатели РД-181, произведенные АО «НПО Энергомаш имени академика В.П. Глушко».
  Это первый пуск после вхождения «Orbital ATK» в компанию «Northrop Grumman» и четвертый пуск РН «Antares» с двигателями РД-181.
Космическй корабль Cygnus доставит на Международную космическую станцию (МКС) более трех тонн груза. Прибытие корабля на МКС запланировано на 19 ноября.
Ранее запуск американского грузового корабля к МКС дважды переносился из-за неблагоприятных погодных условий.

Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/187422.jpg)  (https://vk.com/prokopyev_iss) Космонавт Сергей Прокопьев (https://vk.com/prokopyev_iss)
час назад (https://vk.com/wall-168754335_1310)

С помощью гигантской руки-манипулятора экипаж на станции сегодня «поймал» и осуществил стыковку к МКС еще одного грузовика - американского «Cигнуса». Два корабля в одни сутки - первый раз в истории!

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ЦитироватьОсуществлена стыковка американского грузового космического корабля "Сигнус" с МКС - НАСА
19.11.2018 15:39:33

Вашингтон. 19 ноября. ИНТЕРФАКС-АВН - После двухдневного полета на орбите Земли американский грузовой космический корабль "Сигнус" (Cygnus) с грузами для экипажа Международной космической станции (МКС) в понедельник состыковался со станцией, сообщило Национальное управление по аэронавтике и исследованию космического пространства США (НАСА).

По данным Центра управления полетами НАСА в Хьюстоне, операция по стыковке грузового космического корабля "Сигнус" с американским сегментом станции была завершена в 15:33 МСК. Перед этим, в 13:28, экипаж МКС захватил с помощью 17-метровой руки-манипулятора Canadarm сблизившийся со станцией "грузовик" для последующей стыковки.

"Сигнус" доставил на МКС около 3,4 тонны груза, в том числе продовольствие, а также оборудование и материалы для проведения десятков научных исследований.

"Сигнус" будет состыкован с МКС в течение около трех месяцев. За это время экипаж разгрузит его и нагрузит отработанным оборудованием и другими подлежащими утилизации грузами, после чего корабль отчалит. 18 февраля 2019 года "Сигнус" будет сведен с орбиты и прекратит свое существование в акватории Тихого океана. Большая его часть сгорит в плотных слоях атмосферы Земли.

ЦитироватьCrew Unpacking New U.S., Russian Cargo Ships on Station's 20th Anniversary

Mark Garcia (https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/author/magarcia/)
Posted Nov 20, 2018 at 3:54 pm

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The crew also continues to unpack the newest U.S. and Russian cargo ships to visit the International Space Station (https://www.nasa.gov/station) today.

The Cygnus space freighter from Northrop Grumman arrived Monday (https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2018/11/19/canadian-robotic-arm-installs-u-s-cygnus-cargo-ship-to-station/) delivering almost 7,400 pounds of crew supplies and new science experiments. The Progress 71 (71P) resupply from Russia docked Sunday (https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2018/11/18/russian-cargo-craft-docks-to-station-and-delivers-goods/) packed with almost three tons of food, fuel and supplies

Astronauts Serena Auñón-Chancellor (https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/serena-m-aunon-chancellor) and Alexander Gerst (http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Human_Spaceflight/Astronauts/Alexander_Gerst) opened Cygnus's hatch a few hours after it was captured and attached to the Unity module (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/structure/elements/unity). Today they are installing new science freezers, transferring the new cargo and replenishing the orbital laboratory. Cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev (http://www.gctc.ru/main.php?id=201) opened the 71P hatch after its automated docking Sunday and began unloading the new gear.

ЦитироватьNorthrop Grumman 10 (NG-10):
NG-10 Antares 230 Rocket successfully launched on Saturday, November 17 at 3:01AM CT fr om NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Once in orbit, Cygnus S.S. John Young performed a series of phasing burns over the course of two days to rendezvous with ISS. The crew successfully captured Cygnus with the Space Station Remote Manipulation System (SSRMS) today at 4:28AM CT. Once captured, they handed off control of the SSRMS to ground Robotics Controllers who then maneuvered the vehicle to the Node 1 nadir Common Berthing Mechanism (CBM) interface wh ere it was securely bolted to the ISS. Once the CBM bolting operations were complete, the crew and ground teams worked together to perform Node 1 CBM vestibule pressurization followed by hatch opening and ingress at 11:17 AM CT. NG-10 brings ~3266 kg of cargo to ISS.

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/184912.jpg)Dave Dickinson‏ @Astroguyz (https://twitter.com/Astroguyz) 10:08 (https://twitter.com/Astroguyz/status/1067842681332789248) - 28 нояб. 2018 г.

It's down. The Antares rocket body that recently launched Cygnus NORAD ID 2018-092B reentered today at 15:03 UT +/- 1 hour: https://aerospace.org/node/4276  (https://t.co/5KNK03KCn3)

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ЦитироватьISS Daily Summary Report – 12/05/2018

Northrop Grumman 10 (NG-10) Cygnus Hatch Closure:
Following the unloading of all critical items from Cygnus over the past several weeks, today the hatch was closed and will remain in this configuration until after the SpX-16 Dragon mission.

ЦитироватьDragon Attached to Station, Returns to Earth in January

Mark Garcia (https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/author/magarcia/)
Posted Dec 8, 2018 at 10:41 am

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Dec. 8, 2018: International Space Station Configuration. Six spaceships are attached at the space station including the U.S. resuppy ships Northrop Grumman Cygnus and the SpaceX Dragon; and Russia's Progress 70 and Progress 71 resupply ships and the Soyuz MS-09 and MS-10 crew ships all from Roscosmos.

Three days after its launch from Florida, the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft was installed on the Earth-facing side of the International Space Station (http://www.nasa.gov/station)'s Harmony module (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/structure/elements/harmony) at 10:36 a.m. EST.

The 16th contracted commercial resupply mission from SpaceX delivers more than 5,600 pounds of research, crew supplies and hardware (https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/spacex_crs-16_mision_overview_high_res_rev2.pdf) to the orbiting laboratory. Among the research it will bring to station, science investigations and technology demonstrations aboard Dragon include:
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A small satellite deployment mechanism, called SlingShot (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Facility.html?#id=7847), will be ride up in Dragon and then be installed in a Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft prior to its departure from the space station. SlingShot can accommodate as many as 18 CubeSats of any format. After the Cygnus cargo ship departs from station, the spacecraft navigates to an altitude of 280 to 310 miles (an orbit higher than that of the space station) to deploy the satellites.
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ЦитироватьAstronaut Health Study and Spacesuit Work Onboard Station

Mark Garcia (https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/author/magarcia/)
Posted Jan 22, 2019 at 11:17 am

... The crew also worked on packing a U.S. cargo craft ...
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McClain and Saint-Jacques also partnered up before lunchtime to get the Cygnus resupply ship (https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2018/11/19/canadian-robotic-arm-installs-u-s-cygnus-cargo-ship-to-station/) ready for its departure on Feb. 12. The duo reviewed packing procedures and stowed inventory aboard the U.S. space freighter from Northrop Grumman.

ЦитироватьRussian Cargo Ship Undocks; U.S. Cygnus Leaves in February

Mark Garcia (https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/author/magarcia/)
Posted Jan 25, 2019 at 8:11 am
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Today's departure leaves three spaceships attached to the orbital lab including Northrop Grumman's Cygnus (https://go.nasa.gov/2BhaLrr) space freighter and Russia's Progress 71 (https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2018/11/18/russian-cargo-craft-docks-to-station-and-delivers-goods/) resupply ship and Soyuz MS-11 (https://go.nasa.gov/2QrzAcX) crew ship. Cygnus is due to complete its mission when it departs from the station's Unity module (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/structure/elements/unity) on Feb. 8.

ЦитироватьCargo Ship Takes out Trash; Crew Works on Cygnus Preps and Science Hardware

Mark Garcia (https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/author/magarcia/)
Posted Jan 25, 2019 at 11:13 am
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Northrop Grumman's Cygnus commercial cargo vessel is next up, scheduled to depart the Unity module (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/structure/elements/unity) in early February. Astronauts Anne McClain (https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/anne-c-mcclain) and David Saint-Jacques (http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/astronauts/canadian/active/bio-david-saint-jacques.asp) have been reviewing Cygnus departure procedures and carefully packing the spaceship throughout the week. ...

ЦитироватьISS Daily Summary Report – 1/29/2019

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Northrop Grumman 10 (NG-10) Cygnus Cargo Operations:
The crew continued Cygnus cargo operations in preparation for the vehicle departure, currently planned for February 8.
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ЦитироватьFriday at 11:10 a.m. EST, Northrop Grumman's Cygnus space freighter will depart the station after 81 days attached to the Unity module. Robotics controllers will remotely guide the Canadarm2 robotic arm to grapple Cygnus overnight. McClain will then command the Canadarm2 on Friday to release Cygnus back into Earth orbit as Saint-Jacques backs her up and monitors the activities.

Cygnus has more to do after its release. It will begin to deploy several sets of CubeSats after it reaches a safe distance from the space station. The U.S. resupply ship will then reenter Earth's atmosphere in late February over a remote portion of the Pacific Ocean for a fiery but safe destruction.

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February 8, Friday
10:45 a.m. - Departure of the Northrop Grumman Cygnus CRS-10 Cargo Craft from the ISS; release scheduled at 11:10 a.m. (All Channels)

ЦитироватьCygnus Ready for Friday Departure and CubeSat Deployments

Mark Garcia (https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/author/magarcia/)
Posted Feb 7, 2019 at 12:06 pm

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The Cygnus space freighter is maneuvered by the Canadarm2 robotic arm shortly after its arrival and capture at the International Space Station on Nov. 19, 2018 (https://go.nasa.gov/2BhaLrr).

Northrop Grumman's Cygnus space freighter is just a day away from completing its tenth mission to the International Space Station (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html). The Expedition 58 (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition58/index.html) crew is training today for Cygnus' robotic release on Friday and preparing it for one more mission afterward.

Cygnus is in the grips of the Canadarm2 robotic arm (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/structure/elements/mobile-servicing-system.html) today still attached to the Unity module (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/structure/elements/unity). Robotics controllers will uninstall Cygnus from Unity early Friday and remotely maneuver the space freighter to its release position.

NASA astronaut Anne McClain (https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/anne-c-mcclain) will take over the robotics controls as David Saint-Jacques (http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/astronauts/canadian/active/bio-david-saint-jacques.asp) from the Canadian Space Agency backs her up inside the cupola (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/structure/elements/cupola.html). She will command the Canadarm2 to release Cygnus back into space at 11:10 a.m. EST Friday. NASA TV will begin its live coverage of Cygnus' release (https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-airs-departure-of-us-cargo-ship-from-international-space-station) starting at 10:45 a.m.

The two astronauts practiced the release of Cygnus today and finished the installation of the Slingshot (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Facility.html?#id=7847) small satellite deployer inside the spacecraft. Slingshot will eject a set of CubeSats from Cygnus once the cargo vessel reaches a safe distance from the station about eight hours after its release.
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Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186040.jpg)Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight) 2 ч. назад (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/1093854348843479040)

NG-10 Cygnus is set to be released from the ISS in three hours.

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Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/67516.jpg)Jonathan McDowell‏Подлинная учетная запись @planet4589 (https://twitter.com/planet4589) 9 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/1093892141393371137)

The Cygnus cargo freighter was unberthed from the Unity module this morning (probably around 1100-1200 UTC, did anyone catch the time?) and is now on the end of the robot arm

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Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/67530.jpg)Spaceflight Now‏ @SpaceflightNow (https://twitter.com/SpaceflightNow) 8:19 (https://twitter.com/SpaceflightNow/status/1093907066660495366) - 8 февр. 2019 г.

Cygnus release confirmed. The space station's Canadian-built robot arm has released its grip on the Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo craft at 11:16am EST (1616 GMT) over Peru. https://spaceflightnow.com/2019/02/08/cygnus-ng10-departure/ ... (https://t.co/czja36DuzL)

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Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/67530.jpg)Spaceflight Now‏ @SpaceflightNow (https://twitter.com/SpaceflightNow) 8:27 (https://twitter.com/SpaceflightNow/status/1093909249980334083) - 8 февр. 2019 г.

The Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo craft has completed maneuvers to depart the vicinity of the International Space Station. It will soon head to a higher orbit to begin CubeSat deployments. Full story: https://spaceflightnow.com/2019/02/08/cygnus-ng10-departure/ ... (https://t.co/czja36DuzL)

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ЦитироватьAstronauts Release U.S. Spacecraft from Station

Mark Garcia (https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/author/magarcia/)
Posted Feb 8, 2019 at 11:29 am

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The Cygnus is pictured moments after its release from the Canadarm2 robotic arm. Credit: NASA TV

Northrop Grumman's Cygnus spacecraft was released from the Canadarm2 (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/structure/elements/mobile-servicing-system.html) at 11:16 a.m. EST and has departed the International Space Station (https://www.nasa.gov/station). After an extended mission to deploy several CubeSats in multiple orbits, Cygnus is scheduled to be deorbited on Feb. 25 to enter the Earth's atmosphere and burn up harmlessly over the Pacific Ocean.

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Expedition 58 (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition58/index.html) Flight Engineers Anne McClain (https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/anne-c-mcclain) of NASA and David Saint-Jacques (http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/astronauts/canadian/active/bio-david-saint-jacques.asp) of the Canadian Space Agency used the station's robotic arm to release the craft, dubbed the "SS John Young", after ground controllers unbolted the cargo vehicle from the Earth-facing port of the Unity module (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/structure/elements/unity) earlier this morning

This Commercial Resupply Services contract mission delivered dozens of new and existing investigations as Expedition 58 contributes to some hundreds of science and research studies. Highlights from the new experiments (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/ng-10_research_highlights) include a demonstration of 3D printing and recycling technology and simulating the creation of celestial bodies from stardust.

The Refabricator (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=7321) is the first-ever 3D printer and recycler integrated into one user-friendly machine. Once it's installed in the space station, it will demonstrate recycling of waste plastic and previously 3D printed parts already on-board into high-quality filament, or 3D printer "ink." This recycled filament will be fed into the printer as stock to make new tools and parts on-demand in space. This technology could enable closed-loop, sustainable fabrication, repair and recycling on long-duration space missions, and greatly reduce the need to continually launch large supplies of new material and parts for repairs and maintenance. The demonstration, which NASA's Space Technology Mission and Human Exploration and Operations Directorates co-sponsored, is considered a key enabling technology for in-space manufacturing. NASA awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (http://sbir.nasa.gov/#_blank) contract valued to Tethers Unlimited Inc. (http://www.tethers.com/#_blank) to build the recycling system.

The Experimental Chondrule Formation at the International Space Station (EXCISS (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=7785)) investigation will explore how planets, moons and other objects in space formed by simulating the high-energy, low-gravity conditions that were present during formation of the early solar system. Scientists plan to zap a specially formulated dust with an electrical current, and then study the shape and texture of the resulting pellets.

The Crystallization of LRRK2 Under Microgravity Conditions-2 (PCG-16 (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=7855)) investigation grows large crystals of an important protein, leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2), in microgravity for analysis back on Earth. This protein is implicated in development of Parkinson's disease, and improving our knowledge of its structure may help scientists better understand the pathology of the disease and develop therapies to treat it. LRRK2 crystals grown in gravity are too small and too compact to study, making microgravity an essential part of this research.  This investigation is sponsored by the International Space Station U.S. National Laboratory (https://www.iss-casis.org/), which Congress designated in 2005 to maximize its use for improving quality of life on Earth.

Cygnus launched Nov. 17, 2018 (https://go.nasa.gov/2A0yR8g), on an Antares 230 rocket from Virginia Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport's Pad 0A at Wallops, and arrived at the station Nov. 19 (https://go.nasa.gov/2BhaLrr) for the company's 10th NASA-contracted commercial resupply mission to the station.

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This was the seventh flight of an enhanced Cygnus spacecraft, and the fourth using Northrop Grumman's upgraded Antares 230 launch vehicle featuring new RD-181 engines that provide increased performance and flexibility.

ЦитироватьАмериканский корабль Cygnus отстыковался от МКС
08.02.2019 19:34:16

Вашингтон. 8 февраля. ИНТЕРФАКС-АВН - Грузовой космический корабль "Сигнус" (Cygnus) после почти трехмесячного совместного полета в пятницу отстыковался от Международной космической станции (МКС), сообщило Национальное управление по аэронавтике и исследованию космического пространства США (НАСА).

Перед отстыковкой от американского сегмента МКС - модуля Harmony - космический грузовик был захвачен 17-метровой рукой-манипулятором Canadarm-2, которая отвела его от станции.

"Сигнус" вывезет с МКС около 2,5 тонны мусора и отходов. Корабль продолжит на орбите автономный полет в течение более двух недель, в ходе которого с его борта будет запущено три исследовательских наноспутника.

25 февраля "Сигнус" должен будет сойти с орбиты и, войдя в плотные слои атмосферы Земли, сгореть над южной частью акватории Тихого океана.

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/185703.jpg)Northrop Grumman‏Подлинная учетная запись @northropgrumman (https://twitter.com/northropgrumman) 8:30 (https://twitter.com/northropgrumman/status/1093909831730241538) - 8 февр. 2019 г.

Our S.S. John Young #Cygnus (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cygnus?src=hash) successfully departed the @Space_Station (https://twitter.com/Space_Station) on February 8 following its 81 day stay. Cygnus delivered ~7,400 pounds of cargo to astronauts on board and will now go on to deploy a total of 5 CubeSats as a part of its secondary mission. #NorthropGrumman (https://twitter.com/hashtag/NorthropGrumman?src=hash)

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Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186040.jpg)Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight) 8:19 (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/1093907235208679429) - 8 февр. 2019 г.

NG-10 Cygnus release!

ARTICLE:

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2019/02/ng-10-cygnus-departs-iss-3-month-mission/ ... (https://t.co/55jihXeRms)

- By Chris Gebhardt (@ChrisG_NSF (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF))

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Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/67521.jpg)Stephen Clark‏ @StephenClark1 (https://twitter.com/StephenClark1) 8:54 (https://twitter.com/StephenClark1/status/1093915921977098240) - 8 февр. 2019 г.

Cygnus has departed ISS after a successfully cargo delivery mission. Next up is the deployment of five CubeSats into orbits above and below the station, two more than previous disclosed. 1/2


8:58 (https://twitter.com/StephenClark1/status/1093916928056483840) - 8 февр. 2019 г.

Three CubeSats will release from NanoRacks deployers — MYSat 1, CHEFSat 2 & KickSat 2. But there are two (three?) more CubeSats aboard not previously publicly disclosed: Quantum Radar -1 & -2, and ULTP-1, both from SEOPS, which developed the Slingshot deployer on Cygnus. 2/2

ЦитироватьNG CRS-10: SS John Young Cygnus departure

SciNews (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjU6ZwoTQtKWfz1urL7XcbA)

Опубликовано: 8 февр. 2019 г.

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/184904.jpg)my first satellite‏ @myfirstsatellit (https://twitter.com/myfirstsatellit) 1 ч.1 час назад (https://twitter.com/myfirstsatellit/status/1093906733859291136)


CubeSats deployed both above and below @Space_Station (https://twitter.com/Space_Station) orbit: #CHEFSat (https://twitter.com/hashtag/CHEFSat?src=hash) and #MySat1 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/MySat1?src=hash) are deployed above #ISS (https://twitter.com/hashtag/ISS?src=hash), and after #Cygnus (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cygnus?src=hash) goes below the #ISS (https://twitter.com/hashtag/ISS?src=hash) to deploy #KickSat2 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/KickSat2?src=hash), loaded with #ChipSats (https://twitter.com/hashtag/ChipSats?src=hash)

ЦитироватьSpace to Ground: Femtosatellites: 02/08/2019

NASA Johnson (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmheCYT4HlbFi943lpH009Q)

Опубликовано: 8 февр. 2019 г.

ЦитироватьISS Daily Summary Report – 2/07/2019

SlingShot:
Today crewmembers installed two Slingshot deployables (SEOPS-Quantum Radar -1 and -2s) on to the outer hatch of the Cygnus Spacecraft. Also installed in a deployable slot is the UbiquityLink-1 orbit to ground communications hardware. The two passive optical reflector satellites will be released after Cygnus moves away from the ISS. SEOPS' SlingShot is a small satellite deployment system that fits inside the Cygnus spacecraft's Passive Common Berthing Mechanism (PCBM). SlingShot can accommodate up to eighteen satellites that are deployed post Cygnus unberth.

Cygnus Departure Preparations:
Today, the crew installed the starboard and port Controller Panel Assemblies (CPAs), re-installed the Node 1 Nadir thermal cover and closed the Node 1 Nadir hatch. The crew then completed the Pressure Management Device (PMD) setup in preparation for vestibule depress. Cygnus unberth is scheduled for tomorrow morning with release at 16:10 GMT (10:10 AM CT).

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186347.jpg)Anne McClain‏Подлинная учетная запись @AstroAnnimal (https://twitter.com/AstroAnnimal) 3 ч. назад (https://twitter.com/AstroAnnimal/status/1093915619718774787)

#Cygnus (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cygnus?src=hash) waits on the end of SSRMS for release. Congrats to all involved in this successful cargo mission, and thank you for the resupply!

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ЦитироватьNorthrop Grumman's Cygnus Spacecraft Departs International Space Station

S.S. John Young highlights growing commercial partnerships in secondary mission

February 08, 2019

Dulles, Va. – Feb. 8, 2019 – Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) announced that its Cygnus spacecraft has departed from the International Space Station after an 81-day stay during the NG-10 mission. While docked, astronauts unloaded approximately 7,400 pounds of vital supplies and scientific equipment. The Slingshot CubeSat Deployer System, a new commercial customer for Cygnus, was also installed for its inaugural flight on the spacecraft. Slingshot, a flexible platform that can fly hosted payloads and CubeSats, further demonstrates the ability of Cygnus to host multiple secondary payloads as part of a single mission. Cygnus departed from the International Space Station at 11:16 a.m. EST loaded with more than 2,500 kilograms (5,500 pounds) of disposal cargo.

The S.S. John Young now begins the second half of its mission by repositioning above the station to deploy two CubeSats via the NanoRacks External Cygnus Deployer and two CubeSats from the Slingshot CubeSat Deployer. Cygnus will then lower its orbit below the station for another NanoRacks deployment of one CubeSat. This specific satellite deployment operation marks the first dual altitude deployment for Cygnus, further demonstrating the spacecraft's capabilities beyond cargo delivery and removal. During its secondary mission, the spacecraft will also operate a commercial powered payload mounted in the Slingshot launch system as another new customer, UbiquitiLink, Inc. UbiqutiLink's telecommunications payload antenna will test the ability to send and receive messages in areas without ground-based connectivity.

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From November 19, 2018 when Northrop Grumman's "S.S. John Young" Cygnus spacecraft arrived at the International Space Station to deliver approximately 7,400 pounds of cargo to astronauts on board. The spacecraft successfully departed from the station on February 8 to begin the second phase of its mission. (Credit: NASA)

"NG-10 continues to highlight Northrop Grumman's ability to meet the needs of multiple customers throughout one mission to the International Space Station," said Frank DeMauro, vice president and general manager, space systems, Northrop Grumman. "During each trip to the station, Cygnus continues to demonstrate additional capabilities as we partner with new commercial customers. These new relationships will create opportunities for the International Space Station to expand its role as a unique platform for ground-breaking science."

The two NanoRacks CubeSats to be deployed above the station are the Cost-effective High E-Frequency Satellite (CHEFSat) and MYSat-1. CHEFSat tests and prepares consumer communications technology for use in space. MYSat-1 marks the first satellite developed by Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE). MYSat-1 was developed as part of Khalifa's Space Systems and Technology Concentration, a joint program established in 2015 in collaboration with UAE-based satellite operator Al Yah Satellite Communications Company (Yahsat) and Northrop Grumman. Engineers from both companies helped develop the initial curriculum for the concentration, and provided guidance and mentorship during the design and build phases of the MYSat-1 satellite.

Once the S.S. John Young moves below the International Space Station, KickSat-2, a collaborative CubeSat from NASA Ames Research Center and Stanford University, will be deployed via the NanoRacks Deployer.

The next Cygnus launch, known as the NG-11 mission, will be Northrop Grumman's final launch under the CRS-1 contract and is currently scheduled for spring. During this mission, Cygnus will demonstrate its unique capability to fly solo through space for an extended duration after departing from the station. This innovation is another example of Cygnus's potential to double as a free-flying laboratory for science experiments, technology demonstrations and as a CubeSat launch platform. These enhancements will build on the positive impact of the International Space Station to develop a new economy in low Earth orbit.

The NG-10 mission began Nov. 17, 2018, when Cygnus launched aboard a Northrop Grumman Antares rocket from NASA Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The mission is expected to end on Feb. 25, at approximately 3:30 a.m. EST when Cygnus will execute a safe, destructive reentry into the Earth's atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean. Stay informed with real-time updates on the science experiments aboard Cygnus through Northrop Grumman's Twitter account: @northropgrumman (https://twitter.com/northropgrumman).

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/67516.jpg)Jonathan McDowell‏Подлинная учетная запись @planet4589 (https://twitter.com/planet4589) 23 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/1094028346420314112)

After departing ISS today, the cargo ship SS John Young was in a 405 x 418 km orbit slightly above the station. By 2130 UTC it had made two burns to raise orbit to 431 x 456 km im preparation for cubesat deploys.

ЦитироватьCygnus supply ship departs space station for extended mission
February 8, 2019 (https://spaceflightnow.com/2019/02/) | Stephen Clark (https://spaceflightnow.com/author/stephen-clark/)

EDITOR'S NOTE: Upd ated at 12 p.m. EST (1700 GMT) after departure, with updated information on nanosatellite deployments.

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The Cygnus spacecraft is released from the space station's robot arm Friday. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now

A commercial Cygnus supply ship departed the International Space Station on Friday for an extended mission to deploy five nanosatellites and conduct other experiments before re-entering the atmosphere and burning up with more than two tons of trash.

The space station's nearly 58-foot-long (17-meter) robotic arm grappled the Cygnus spacecraft and pulled it away from a berthing port on the orbiting outpost's Unity module early Friday, setting up for release of the supply ship at 11:16 a.m. EST (1616 GMT) under the command of Expedition 58 flight engineer Anne McClain.

The Cygnus spacecraft fired thrusters to depart the vicinity of the station, then was expected to raise its orbit to an altitude of around 300 miles (500 kilometers) for the separation of four tiny nanosatellites. The cargo ship will then lower its orbit below the station's altitude to deploy another CubeSat before conducting a deorbit burn to fall back into the atmosphere for a destructive re-entry over the Pacific Ocean.

The Cygnus is wrapping up the 10th resupply mission, also known as NG-10, to the space station by Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems, formerly known as Orbital ATK, under an 11-launch contract with NASA. The cargo contract with NASA is valued at $2.89 billion, according to a report by the Government Accountability Office.

The cargo craft was christened S.S. John Young in honor of the late Gemini, Apollo and space shuttle astronaut. The ship is made up of a propulsion and service module made by Northrop Grumman in Dulles, Virginia, and a pressurized cargo cabin provided by Thales Alenia Space in Turin, Italy.

The S.S. John Young arrived at the space station Nov. 19, two days after launching aboard an Antares booster from Wallops Island, Virginia, delivering 7,215 pounds (3,273 kilograms) of experiments, hardware, spare parts, food and supplies for the station and its crew.

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The Cygnus spacecraft, christened the S.S. John Young, arrived at the International Space Station on Nov. 19. Credit: NASA

The payloads delivered to the station in November aboard Cygnus included a plastic recycler and 3D printer built to advance in-space manufacturing capabilities, and an experiment studying how the human body's ability to perceive motion, orientation and distance changes in microgravity.

Astronauts replaced the fresh experiments and supplies with trash, packing around 5,500 pounds (2,500 kilograms) of garbage into the Cygnus cargo module for disposal during re-entry. The crew also installed a Slingshot nanosatellite deployer and an experimental payload on the forward hatch of the Cygnus spacecraft before Friday's departure.

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The experimental payload is for UbiquitiLink, a Virginia company planning to develop a nanosatellite communications network. The UbiquitiLink experiment aboard the Cygnus is expected to remain attached to the spacecraft.

The first two CubeSats to be released in orbit by Cygnus will be MYSat 1 and CHEFSat 2, se t for deployment in a roughly 300-mile-high orbit around eight hours after the cargo craft leaves the space station.

MYSat 1 is a 1U CubeSat around the size of a Rubik's cube. Carrying two payloads — camera and a lithion-ion coil cell battery — MYSat 1 was built by Masdar Institute of Science and Technology in Abu Dhabi with the support of Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems and Al Yah Satellite Communications Company in the United Arab Emirates.

CHEFSat 2 from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory will also be deployed in the higher orbit.

About the size of a shoebox, CHEFSat 2 is a copy of a CubeSat launched on a Cygnus cargo mission to the space station last November. CHEFSat 2 will test commercial off-the-shelf technologies to evaluate their performance in space, focusing on new radio communications capabilities.

The Slingshot deployer will eject two more CubeSat missions — a pair of passive payloads named Quantum Radar 1 and 2, and ULTP 1, both developed by SEOPS, a Texas company that also provided the Slingshot mechanism. The Quantum Radar satellites are covered in optical reflectors, allowing students on the ground to use laser telescopes to track their orbits as atmospheric drag slows them down and lowers their altitude, before they eventually burn up during re-entry.

The ULTP 1 payload will demonstrate "two-way connectivity between small satellite communications payload technology and low-power devices on Earth," according to a summary of the experiment provided by SEOPS to NASA. "This investigation aims to validate the use of this technology in space, and is intended to be deployed as a backbone for future commercial communication services."

Cygnus will lower its orbit below the space station's altitude after releasing MYSat 1, CHEFSat 2, Quantum Radar 1 and 2, and ULTP 1, targeting an altitude of around 200 miles (325 kilometers) for separation of KickSat 2, a NASA-sponsored CubeSat mission led by principal investigator Zac Manchester at Stanford University.

KickSat 2 carries 100 tiny "sprites" or "femtosatellites" — essentially 1.4-inch (3.5-centimeter) square circuit boards with integrated power, computing, sensing and communication equipment. The mission is a follow-up to the KickSat mission that launched in 2014, but failed to release its sprites in orbit.

The mission will test the limits of satellite miniaturization, a trend toward affordability widely popularized by the CubeSat design over the last two decades. But KickSat's sprites are a tiny fraction of the size of a CubeSat.

KickSat 2 will eject its sprites at a lower altitude to ensure the circuit boards re-enter Earth's atmosphere in a matter of weeks, avoiding the possibility of the sprites, which could be difficult to track with ground-based radars, becoming a long-term space debris threat to other satellites.

The deployment of the MYSat 1, CHEFSat 2 and KickSat 2 nanosatellites was arranged by NanoRacks. Those CubeSats were launched with the Cygnus spacecraft inside their externally-mounted deployers. The Slingshot mechanism launched inside a SpaceX Dragon cargo craft in December.

"NG-10 continues to highlight Northrop Grumman's ability to meet the needs of multiple customers throughout one mission to the International Space Station," said Frank DeMauro, vice president and general manager, space systems, Northrop Grumman. "During each trip to the station, Cygnus continues to demonstrate additional capabilities as we partner with new commercial customers. These new relationships will create opportunities for the International Space Station to expand its role as a unique platform for ground-breaking science."

Re-entry of the Cygnus spacecraft over the Pacific Ocean is planned Feb. 25.

Northrop Grumman's next Antares launch with a Cygnus supply ship to the International Space Station is scheduled April 17 from Virginia's Eastern Shore.

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Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/67516.jpg)Jonathan McDowell‏Подлинная учетная запись @planet4589 (https://twitter.com/planet4589) 5 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/1094287142430429189)

The S.S. John Young is now in a 452 x 459 km orbit 50 km above the ISS orbit, ready to begin deployment of the MySat and CHEFSat cubesats

Цитировать(https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/986487919547506688/fe-FGJhH_bigger.jpg)yahsat‏ @yahsatofficial (https://twitter.com/yahsatofficial) 9 ч. назад (https://twitter.com/yahsatofficial/status/1094205621828796416)

The Cygnus resupply spacecraft carrying #Mysat1 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Mysat1?src=hash) has departed from @Space_Station (https://twitter.com/Space_Station) yesterday to deploy Mysat-1 into low earth orbit this Wed 12th Feb at 4pm UAE Time.
MYSAT-1 is built by 19 Emirati students for imaging purposes at the #Yahsat (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Yahsat?src=hash) Space Lab.
@KhalifaUni (https://twitter.com/KhalifaUni) @northropgrumman (https://twitter.com/northropgrumman)

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/67516.jpg)Jonathan McDowell‏Подлинная учетная запись @planet4589 (https://twitter.com/planet4589) 25 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/1094333861113278466)

And two new objects cataloged associated with Cygnus, so it looks like @nanoracks (https://twitter.com/NanoRacks) deployed the cubesats sometime prior to 1600 UTC Feb 9 (unless these are the @SEOPSLLC (https://twitter.com/SEOPSLLC) Slingshot cubesats instead)


21 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/1094334891217637381)

I see @yahsat (https://twitter.com/YahSat) says MySat deploy is scheduled for Wednesday, so these may be the @SEOPSLLC (https://twitter.com/SEOPSLLC) Quantum Radar 1 and 2 satellites deployed from the Slingshot deployer on the front end of Cygnus

Цитировать(https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/930132714996621313/8EKs2vRJ_x96.jpg) (https://mobile.twitter.com/NanoRacks) NanoRacks @NanoRacks (https://mobile.twitter.com/NanoRacks) · 20:31 (https://mobile.twitter.com/NanoRacks/status/1095374855766196225) - 12 февр 2019 г.

Tomorrow we will be deploying three #CubeSats (https://mobile.twitter.com/hashtag/CubeSats?src=hashtag_click) from @northropgrumman (https://mobile.twitter.com/northropgrumman)'s #Cygnus (https://mobile.twitter.com/hashtag/Cygnus?src=hashtag_click) spacecraft S.S. John Young.

#CHEFSat (https://mobile.twitter.com/hashtag/CHEFSat?src=hashtag_click) and #MYSat1 (https://mobile.twitter.com/hashtag/MYSat1?src=hashtag_click) are targeting a morning release, and #KickSat2 (https://mobile.twitter.com/hashtag/KickSat2?src=hashtag_click) in the early evening (Eastern time).

(link: http://nanoracks.com/nanoracks-provides-historic-triple-altitude-delivery-for-customers-in-single-space-station-launch/) nanoracks.com/nanoracks-prov... (https://t.co/gvQbdVO9lK?amp=1)

Цитировать(https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/806461835033489409/Mq0Ci3vp_x96.jpg)  (https://mobile.twitter.com/MYSAT_1)MYSAT-1 CubeSat @MYSAT_1 (https://mobile.twitter.com/MYSAT_1) · 2 ч (https://mobile.twitter.com/MYSAT_1/status/1095655273451216896)

Preliminary indications are that NanoRacks deployer operated successfully. I am now free flying!

Цитировать(https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/930132714996621313/8EKs2vRJ_x96.jpg) (https://mobile.twitter.com/NanoRacks) NanoRacks @NanoRacks (https://mobile.twitter.com/NanoRacks) · 6 ч (https://mobile.twitter.com/NanoRacks/status/1095831488355012609)

After successful deployments this morning of #MySat1 (https://mobile.twitter.com/hashtag/MySat1?src=hashtag_click) & #CHEFSat (https://mobile.twitter.com/hashtag/CHEFSat?src=hashtag_click), we're pleased to share that the #KickSat2 (https://mobile.twitter.com/hashtag/KickSat2?src=hashtag_click) #CubeSat (https://mobile.twitter.com/hashtag/CubeSat?src=hashtag_click) was released this evening! One mission, two altitudes.

Thanks to our great friends at @northropgrumman (https://mobile.twitter.com/northropgrumman) & @NASA (https://mobile.twitter.com/NASA) for helping us build this successful program!
#Cygnus (https://mobile.twitter.com/hashtag/Cygnus?src=hashtag_click)

Цитировать(https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/271119562/jcmy2_x96.jpg) (https://mobile.twitter.com/planet4589) Jonathan McDowell @planet4589 (https://mobile.twitter.com/planet4589) · 6 ч (https://mobile.twitter.com/planet4589/status/1095838537423962112)

MySat/Chefsat were deployed when SS John Young was in a 453 x 466 km orbit. Latest TLEs show the Young had manuevered down to a 386 x 410 km orbit by 2000 UTC; waiting for more data to see what the Kicksat-2 deploy orbit was

Цитировать(https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/271119562/jcmy2_x96.jpg) (https://mobile.twitter.com/planet4589) Jonathan McDowell @planet4589 (https://mobile.twitter.com/planet4589) · 3 ч (https://mobile.twitter.com/planet4589/status/1095881633843027968)

The S.S. John Young is now in a 293 x 306 km orbit, 100 km below ISS. Kicksat will have been deployed in thislow orbit (no TLEs for it yet), so that its Sprites, when they pop out, will reenter within a few weeks.

Цитировать(https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/271119562/jcmy2_x96.jpg) (https://mobile.twitter.com/planet4589) Jonathan McDowell @planet4589 (https://mobile.twitter.com/planet4589) · 6 ч (https://mobile.twitter.com/planet4589/status/1095835208396558336)

The Kicksat-2 cubesat, containing about 100 tiny ChipSats for deployment later, was ejected today from the @NanoRacks (https://mobile.twitter.com/NanoRacks) NRCSD-E deployer on the S.S. John Young, possibly around 2300 UTC plus or minus an hour or so.

(https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/930132714996621313/8EKs2vRJ_x96.jpg) (https://mobile.twitter.com/NanoRacks) NanoRacks @NanoRacks (https://mobile.twitter.com/NanoRacks) · 6 ч (https://mobile.twitter.com/NanoRacks/status/1095835683913191425)

В ответ @planet4589 (https://mobile.twitter.com/planet4589) @northropgrumman (https://mobile.twitter.com/northropgrumman) и @NASA (https://mobile.twitter.com/NASA)

Hi Jonathan, deploy times were 1200/22:45 UTC. Thanks for always following along!

ЦитироватьNZZO

B0790/19 - TEMPO DANGER AREA NZD029 (AUCKLAND OCEANIC FIR) IS PRESCRIBED AS FLW ALL THAT AIRSPACE BOUNDED BY A LINE JOINING:
30 30 00 S 131 00 00 W
50 00 00 S 131 00 00 W
50 00 00 S 160 00 00 W
30 30 00 S 160 00 00 W
30 30 00 S 131 00 00 W
ACTIVITY: SPACE DEBRIS RETURN
USER AGENCY: FOREIGN SPACE AGENCY PRESCRIBED PURSUANT TO CIVIL AVIATION RULE PART 71 UNDER A DELEGATED AUTHORITY ISSUED BY THE DIRECTOR OF CIVIL AVIATION. SFC - FL999, 25 FEB 07:45 2019 UNTIL 25 FEB 10:00 2019. CREATED: 12 FEB 03:18 2019

Цитировать(https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/271119562/jcmy2_x96.jpg) (https://mobile.twitter.com/planet4589) Jonathan McDowell @planet4589 (https://mobile.twitter.com/planet4589) · 15 февр. (https://mobile.twitter.com/planet4589/status/1096236152833691648)

CHEFSsat and @MYSAT_1 (https://mobile.twitter.com/MYSAT_1) cataloged as 44045 and 44044 in 455 x 471 km orbit. KickSat-2 cataloged ast 44046 (2018-092G) in a 297 x 306 km orbit.

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186040.jpg) (https://mobile.twitter.com/NASASpaceflight) Chris B - NSF @NASASpaceflight (https://mobile.twitter.com/NASASpaceflight) · 26 мин (https://mobile.twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/1097589835576082432)

ARTICLE:
NG-10 Cygnus tests new capabilities as part of post-ISS mission -

"https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2019/02/ng-10-cygnus-capabilities-post-iss-mission/ ... (https://t.co/KOlRZskmc1?size=)

- By Chris Gebhardt (@ChrisG_NSF (https://mobile.twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF))

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ЦитироватьSCIZ
 
W0273/19 - ZONE ...D... SECT WEST PACIFIC DUE TO COMMERCIAL SPACE VEHICLE
DEBRIS REENTRY. THE AREA IS BOUNDED BY GEO COORD:
500000S 1300000W
303000S 1300000W
303000S 1600000W
500000S 1600000W
INFO PROVIDED BY NORTH GROUP GRUMMAN.
INFORMATION: SANTIAGO OCEANIC 10024KHZ/6649 KHZ
FANS1A EQUIPPED ACFT LOGON SCEZ. SFC - UNL, 25 FEB 08:00 2019 UNTIL 25 FEB 11:00
 2019. CREATED: 22 FEB 15:14 2019

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ЦитироватьJonathan McDowell @planet4589 · 3 ч (https://mobile.twitter.com/planet4589/status/1095881633843027968)

The S.S. John Young is now in a 293 x 306 km orbit, 100 km below ISS. Kicksat will have been deployed in thislow orbit (no TLEs for it yet), so that its Sprites, when they pop out, will reenter within a few weeks.

Цитировать13:38, 25 февраля 2019
Космический корабль Cygnus сошел с орбиты и сгорел над Тихим океаном

Москва. 25 февраля. INTERFAX.RU - Американский грузовой космический корабль Cygnus ("Сигнус"), доставивший в ноябре прошлого года грузы на Международную космическую станцию (МКС), в понедельник был сведен с орбиты и, войдя в плотные слои атмосферы Земли, сгорел над южной частью акватории Тихого океана. Об этом сообщила корпорация-разработчик корабля Northrop Grumman ("Нортроп Грумман").

"Миссия официально завершилась 25 февраля в 4:05 по времени Восточного побережья США (12:05 по Москве - ИФ), когда Cygnus совершил безопасное вхождение в атмосферу Земли и разрушился над Тихим океаном к востоку от Новой Зеландии", - говорится в сообщении.

Как сообщалось, после почти трехмесячного совместного полета 8 февраля Cygnus отстыковался от МКС, вывезя со станции около 2,5 тонн мусора и отходов и начав более чем двухнедельный автономный полет, в ходе которого с его борта было запущено три исследовательских наноспутника.

Спойлер

Cygnus был выведен на орбиту 17 ноября прошлого года с помощью американской ракеты-носителя Antares ("Антарес"), на которой были использованы российские двигатели РД-181 разработки НПО "Энергомаш".

Старт был осуществлен с космодрома Уоллопс, который расположен на одноименном острове у атлантического побережья американского штата Вирджиния.

19 ноября прошлого года состоялась стыковка корабля с МКС. Запуск был осуществлен в рамках коммерческого контракта НАСА с корпорацией Northrop Grumman ("Нортроп Грумман"), которой принадлежит ракета-носитель и автоматический грузовой космический корабль.

Это уже десятый полет американского грузовика данного типа к МКС. Первый запуск "Сигнуса" состоялся 18 сентября 2013 года.

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ЦитироватьNorthrop Grumman's Cygnus Spacecraft Successfully Concludes Mission to the International Space Station

Company's 10th cargo supply mission featured expanded commercial capabilities for Cygnus spacecraft

February 25, 2019

Dulles, Va. – Feb. 25, 2019 – Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) announced that the company successfully completed its 10th cargo supply mission to the International Space Station under NASA's Commercial Resupply Services (CRS-1) contract.

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Fr om Feb. 8, 2019 when Northrop Grumman's "S.S. John Young" Cygnus spacecraft left the International Space Station after delivering approximately 7,400 pounds of cargo to astronauts on board. The spacecraft successfully completed its tenth cargo supply mission to the International Space Station on Feb. 25. (Credit: NASA)

During the mission, the "S.S. John Young" Cygnus met the needs of multiple customers throughout this flight to the International Space Station. The spacecraft removed more than 5,500 pounds (2,500 kilograms) of disposal cargo from the space station.

After departure, the extended mission included the deployment of three CubeSats via the NanoRacks External Cygnus Deployer at two different altitudes and two CubeSats from the Slingshot CubeSat Deployer System. Slingshot, a new commercial customer for Cygnus, is a flexible platform that can fly hosted payloads and CubeSats. The spacecraft also operated a commercial powered payload for another new customer, UbiquitiLink, Inc. These innovative uses of Cygnus beyond the primary mission demonstrate expanded commercial opportunities enabled by partnerships built through the space station.

"It was a flawless mission for Cygnus that further demonstrated its ability to operate as an in-orbit science platform and launch pad for deployment of commercial CubeSats on extended missions," said Frank DeMauro, vice president and general manager, space systems, Northrop Grumman. "Now, we turn our attention to the next launch this spring wh ere Cygnus will fly on an extended duration mission to further demonstrate its abilities as in-orbit test platform. These capabilities will showcase Cygnus as an evolving space vehicle that can build on the positive impact of the space station to grow new commercial partnerships."

The mission officially concluded on Feb. 25 at 4:05 a.m. EST when Cygnus performed a safe, destructive re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean east of New Zealand. The mission began Nov. 17, 2018, when Cygnus launched aboard a Northrop Grumman Antares™ rocket from NASA Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Upon arrival at the orbiting laboratory, Cygnus delivered approximately 7,400 pounds (3,350 kilograms) of cargo, supplies and scientific experiments to the astronauts. It remained docked for 81 days at the orbiting laboratory before departing the space station on Feb. 8.

The next Cygnus launch, known as the NG-11 mission, is currently scheduled in mid-April. This will be the final mission under Northrop Grumman's CRS-1 contract with NASA before starting the CRS-2 contract missions in the fall of 2019.

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/67516.jpg)Jonathan McDowell‏Подлинная учетная запись @planet4589 (https://twitter.com/planet4589) 32 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/1107728985398611968)

Kicksat-2 cubesat's orbital height since deployment on Feb 13. Hope @zacinaction (https://twitter.com/zacinaction) manages to deploy the Sprites soon; reentry predicted for 2nd week of April.

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Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186038.jpg)Zac Manchester‏ @zacinaction (https://twitter.com/zacinaction) 8 ч. назад (https://twitter.com/zacinaction/status/1108183126671413248)

Calling all HAMs! We have sent commands to deploy the Sprites from #KickSat2 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/KickSat2?src=hash).

Спойлер

We are looking for volunteers to record daylight passes. We need at least 64 kHz IQ data centered at 437.240 MHz. The KickSat-2 TLE can be used for coarse tracking, but won't be super accurate.

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Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186160.jpg)Stanford Engineering‏Подлинная учетная запись @StanfordEng (https://twitter.com/StanfordEng) 22 мар. (https://twitter.com/StanfordEng/status/1109229060448616448)

From lab testing to launch. Today, #KickSat2 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/KickSat2?src=hash) developed by @zacinaction (https://twitter.com/zacinaction) and @NASAAmes (https://twitter.com/NASAAmes) successfully deployed a swarm of tiny ChipSats - the world's smallest spacecraft. The success of this mission has the potential to drastically reduce the cost of launching a satellite.

https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1109225963483627520/pu/vid/1280x720/pYh1Ze8UPDM8NaDo.mp4?tag=8 (https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1109225963483627520/pu/vid/1280x720/pYh1Ze8UPDM8NaDo.mp4?tag=8)

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/184904.jpg)my first satellite‏ @myfirstsatellit (https://twitter.com/myfirstsatellit) 22 мар. (https://twitter.com/myfirstsatellit/status/1109200308624859142)

Sprite Deployment #KickSat2 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/KickSat2?src=hash) #CubeSat (https://twitter.com/hashtag/CubeSat?src=hash) #ChipSat (https://twitter.com/hashtag/ChipSat?src=hash) #Sprites (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Sprites?src=hash)

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22 мар. (https://twitter.com/myfirstsatellit/status/1109200802835513345)

Sprites in action #KickSat2 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/KickSat2?src=hash) #CubeSat (https://twitter.com/hashtag/CubeSat?src=hash) #ChipSat (https://twitter.com/hashtag/ChipSat?src=hash) #Sprites (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Sprites?src=hash)

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Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186160.jpg)Stanford Engineering‏Подлинная учетная запись @StanfordEng (https://twitter.com/StanfordEng) 23 мар. (https://twitter.com/StanfordEng/status/1109248434467303424)

After leaving the NG-10 #Cygnus (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cygnus?src=hash) on Feb 13, #KickSat2 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/KickSat2?src=hash) successfully deployed the world's smallest spacecraft 270 km above the Stanford Dish on Monday night. Weighing in at just 4 grams, these micro-satellites have the potential to pave the way for new methods of space exploration.

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(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/67516.jpg)Jonathan McDowell‏Подлинная учетная запись @planet4589 (https://twitter.com/planet4589) 27 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/1109690563983523840)

For those who haven't been following this, each Sprite is 5 grams in mass and has dimensions of 3.8 cm x 3.8 cm x 1mm .

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/35114.png)Cees Bassa‏ @cgbassa (https://twitter.com/cgbassa) 22 мар. (https://twitter.com/cgbassa/status/1109187588336824321)

The Sprites are alive! We just picked up transmissions at 437.24MHz with @radiotelescoop (https://twitter.com/radiotelescoop) from the tiny Sprite satellites that were ejected from #KickSAT2 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/KickSAT2?src=hash). Many thanks to @zacinaction (https://twitter.com/zacinaction) for this great mission! The Sprites were ahead of #KickSAT2 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/KickSAT2?src=hash) by as much as 5 mins.

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ЦитироватьУченые запустили в космос рой из 100 миниатюрных спутников
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МОСКВА, 24 мар - РИА Новости. Более 100 миниатюрных спутников Sprite массой 5 граммов каждый запущены в космосе с борта американского космического аппарата KickSat 2, сообщил его разработчик Зак Манчестер.

Сам спутник KickSat 2, созданный в Корнеллском университете, был выведен на орбиту в феврале с борта грузового корабля Cygnus после отстыковки от МКС. Внутри него находились 104 миниатюрных спутника Sprite в виде чипа - пластины размером 3,5 на 3,5 сантиметров и массой 5 граммов с радиопередатчиком. Первая попытка запуска 104 спутников Sprite с борта аппарата KickSat 1 в 2014 году была неудачной.

Миниатюрные спутники в будущем смогут использоваться для решения научных задач.

Манчестер на своей странице в Twitter (https://twitter.com/zacinaction/status/1108183126671413248) сообщил, что команда на запуск роя из 104 миниатюрных спутников Sprite была выдана с Земли 19 марта, и попросил радиолюбителей по всему миру информировать его о приёме сигналов с них. Позже астроном Сес Басса подтвердил поступление сигналов со спутников.

Манчестер также отметил, что радиолюбителям стоит поторопиться услышать сигналы, так как миниатюрные спутники быстро снижаются и вскоре сгорят в атмосфере.

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186038.jpg)Zac Manchester‏ @zacinaction (https://twitter.com/zacinaction) 23:24 PDT (https://twitter.com/zacinaction/status/1109702616752087040) - 23 мар. 2019 г.

В ответ @planet4589 (https://twitter.com/planet4589) @cgbassa (https://twitter.com/cgbassa)

Deployment was commanded from the 60 ft. dish @Stanford (https://twitter.com/Stanford) on Monday night at about 20:40 local time, so 03/19 at 03:40 GMT

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/185952.jpg)Daniel Estévez‏ @ea4gpz (https://twitter.com/ea4gpz) 3 ч. назад (https://twitter.com/ea4gpz/status/1117400713271959555)

New blog post: Detecting the Sprites from KickSat-2. A study of the @PI9CAM (https://twitter.com/PI9CAM) recording made by @cgbassa (https://twitter.com/cgbassa) and @tammojan (https://twitter.com/tammojan) of the Sprites chipsats released by KickSat-2, from @zacinaction (https://twitter.com/zacinaction)'s @KickSatInSpace (https://twitter.com/KickSatInSpace) project. A total of 4 Sprites detected.

https://destevez.net/2019/04/detecting-the-sprites-from-kicksat-2/ ... (https://t.co/oj72VCwMsb)

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