Cygnus COTS Demo - Antares-110 - 18.09.2013 - Wallops/MARS LP-0A

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Salo

#40
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=32006.msg1084231#msg1084231
Цитироватьanik пишет:
September 15 - Cygnus (Orb-D) launch
September 22 - Cygnus (Orb-D) capture and berthing (to Harmony nadir) by SSRMS
October 22 - Cygnus (Orb-D) unberthing (from Harmony nadir) and releasing by SSRMS
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Space Alien

Первый запуск частного грузовика Cygnus к МКС намечен на 15 сентября

ЦитироватьКак ожидается, ракета "Антарес" с грузовым кораблем стартует с космодрома на острове Уоллопс на восточном побережье США в 12.00 по местному времени (20.00 мск) 15 сентября. Если запуск не состоится из-за плохих погодных условий, он может быть перенесен на следующие дни (но не позже, чем на 19 сентября), при этом стартовое окно в каждые сутки будет сдвигаться на 20 минут назад.
РИА Новости http://ria.ru/science/20130816/956852171.html

Salo

http://www.orbital.com/Antares-Cygnus/
ЦитироватьOrbital Updates Schedule for COTS Demonstration Mission
August 2013

Orbital Sciences Corporation is targeting September 15 as the first opportunity to conduct the Antares launch of our Cygnus spacecraft for the COTS Demonstration Mission to the International Space Station (ISS) originating from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility.   In the event that weather or other operational factors require the date to shift, the company will seek to carry out the launch no later than September 19.  Currently, the Antares rocket for the COTS Demonstration Mission is completing testing at the Horizontal Integration Facility (HIF) at Wallops and will soon begin integration with the Cygnus spacecraft.  Orbital anticipates that it will roll out the Antares rocket with the integrated Cygnus spacecraft to Pad 0A at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) on or about September 11 to be ready for a September 15 launch.
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Salo

ЦитироватьОпубликовано 19.08.2013

Orbital Sciences' Cygnus cargo craft is bound for the International Space Station on a test flight. This flight will prove Cygnus' ability to rendezvous with the station and be captured by the crew on board. Once this is completed, the Cygnus will join the station's current fleet of cargo vehicles delivering supplies to the crew in space. This test flight is also the final set of milestones as part of NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program.

http://youtu.be/2ECHJkDUy84
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Salo

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Salo

http://www.orbital.com/Antares-Cygnus/
ЦитироватьCOTS Demonstration Mission Schedule Update (as of August 22, 2013)
August 2013

Following a planning and coordination meeting held yesterday, August 21, Orbital and NASA have identified September 17, 2013 as the targeted launch date for the COTS Demonstration Mission to the International Space Station.  The launch of Orbital's Antares rocket carrying the company's Cygnus cargo logistics spacecraft will originate from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport launch pad 0A located at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility.  Orbital's Antares team is targeting a launch time of 11:16 a.m., which is at the opening of an available 15-minute launch window.
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Salo

#46
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=31844.msg1092327#msg1092327
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Цитироватьpsloss пишет:
ЦитироватьMEDIA ADVISORY M13-139

NASA will host a televised news conference at 4 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 4, to preview the upcoming test flight of Orbital Sciences Corp.'s Cygnus cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station.
As announced in the ISS Update hour / HTV-4 release coverage, this briefing has moved an hour earlier today to 3 pm Eastern.
Chris Bergin пишет:
If there's anyone around to cover that briefing, I'd appreciate it, as I'll be AWOL around that time.

FRR has passed if NASA tweeting out the launch date is an indication.
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ЦитироватьProber пишет:
800kg in this test
late load test this Sat.

Test flight named GW Low.
psloss пишет:
G. David Low:
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=12319.0


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Salo

ЦитироватьProber пишет:
Cygnus Integration begun today.
 
No big rolls of Cheese... ;D

Launches possible 17th thru 29th.
ЦитироватьProber пишет:
"If Orbital is ready to launch in Dec. they will get the launch."
"We need a launch in Dec."
"We don't see SpaceX launch to ISS until Jan."
ЦитироватьProber пишет:
Antares rollout on the 13th.
 
Three cores ready to use.   Ord 1 parts available.
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che wi

Часовое видео НАСА'вского брифинга по поводу COTS Demo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKXZlcnUY7A

И трёхминутная выдержка с апрельским пуском Антареса и анимацией предстоящего запуска/стыковки Cygnus:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WlEaQZU8ls

Salo

#49
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/antares/cots1/130904frr/#.UijsRn82PTo
ЦитироватьCygnus cargo vehicle gearing up for debut flight
BY STEPHEN CLARK
SPACEFLIGHT NOW
Posted: September 4, 2013
 
 Orbital Sciences Corp. is almost ready to send the first commercial Cygnus cargo freighter on a demonstration mission to the International Space Station, and NASA officials gave the green light Wednesday for engineers to begin final preparations for the test flight's Sept. 17 launch on an Antares rocket from the Virginia coastline.


Artist's concept of a Cygnus spacecraft berthed with the International Space Station. Credit: Orbital Sciences
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 The robotic spacecraft, named for the constellation Cygnus, is one of two privately-developed spaceships financed by NASA to restore domestic cargo transportation to the space station after the retirement of the space shuttle.
SpaceX, the start-up space transportation firm founded by Elon Musk, is NASA's other commercial cargo contractor. SpaceX completed the first test flight of its Dragon spacecraft to the space station in May 2012, and the California-based company has made two operational resupply runs to the outpost since then.
The Cygnus spacecraft gives NASA redundancy in case one of the two cargo providers encounters problems.
"The workhorses of the fleet for the U.S. segment [of the space station] will be the SpaceX vehicle and the Orbital vehicle," said Mike Suffredini, NASA's space station program manager. "We have them lined up to use them fairly regularly."
NASA and Orbital Sciences officials met Wednesday at the Johnson Space Center in Houston to review the status of preparations for the flight and discuss any concerns leading up to the launch.
According to Suffredini, officials identified no issues threatening a successful on-time launch, other than the standard processing left to go on the Antares rocket and Cygnus spacecraft.
The departure of a Japanese H-2 Transfer Vehicle on Wednesday also cleared a hurdle before the Cygnus flight can proceed. The HTV occupied the same port on the space station needed for the Cygnus spacecraft.
Orbital's Cygnus spacecraft and SpaceX's Dragon capsule were developed in a public-private partnership with NASA. The private companies own and operate the vehicles, but NASA provided funds and expertise to guide Orbital and SpaceX engineers through development and testing.
NASA's financial agreement with Orbital Sciences is worth $288 million, part of the agency's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services, or COTS, program.
Alan Lindenmoyer, NASA's COTS program manager, said the commercial cargo initiative started seven years ago with the intention of reducing the cost and complexity of sending supplies to the space station. Another objective was to make the resupply fleet responsive and capable of launching when needed.
"Last year, we came very close to seeing that vision become a reality with our first COTS partner SpaceX completing a demo flight to the space station and following up with operational flights to the space station," Lindenmoyer said Wednesday. "It was an amazing success, and here we are today with the opportunity to reinforce that capability with our second commercial partner ready to provide those services to the space station."
The development of the Cygnus spacecraft cost about $300 million, and the Antares rocket cost a little more to design and test, according to Frank Culbertson, executive vice president and general manager of Orbital's advanced programs group.
In an interview earlier this year, Culbertson declined to provide a specific value for the development of the Antares launcher. The new Antares launch pad, built by the Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority, cost about $140 million.
Including investments fr om NASA, Orbital and the Commonwealth of Virginia, the Antares rocket, Cygnus spacecraft and the new launch pad collectively cost nearly $1 billion.


File photo of the Antares test launch on April 21. Credit: Thom Baur/Orbital Sciences
 
 Outfitted with solar arrays, a propulsion system, and a laser navigation system, the Cygnus spacecraft will launch at least nine times over the next four years to resupply the space station, beginning with a Sept. 17 liftoff on a demonstration flight to prove the cargo ship can safely do its job.
Orbital officials said the Cygnus spacecraft was scheduled to be attached to the upper stage of the Antares launcher Wednesday. Final cargo loading into the Cygnus spacecraft's pressurized module is set for Saturday, followed by its enclosure inside the rocket's 12.8-foot-diameter payload fairing.
Rollout of the Antares rocket from its horizontal integration facility to the launch pad one mile away is expected Sept. 13.
Launch aboard an Antares rocket on Sept. 17 is scheduled for 11:16 a.m. EDT (1516 GMT) from launch pad 0A at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia's Eastern Shore.
The 133-foot-tall Antares rocket sailed through a test launch in April, deploying a mock-up Cygnus spacecraft in orbit after smooth burns of its twin-engine first stage and solid-fueled second stage motor.
If all goes according to plan, the Antares will release the Cygnus spacecraft in orbit about 10 minutes after liftoff.
Then the Cygnus spacecraft will begin its own mission, exercising its software, engines, and other systems to ensure the vehicle is in top condition before it is trusted to approach within the space station's safety corridor on autopilot.
Under the control of Orbital Sciences engineers based in the company's Dulles, Va., headquarters, the Cygnus will extend its solar arrays, activate its propulsion system and start firing its thrusters to pace its approach to the International Space Station, wh ere it is due to arrive Sept. 22.
Astronaut Luca Parmitano will guide the space station's robot arm to reach out and grapple the Cygnus spacecraft as it floats just below the outpost. The robot arm will move the Cygnus to a berthing port on the space station's Harmony module, wh ere it will stay for about 30 days as the crew opens hatches and starts to unpack 1,500 pounds of food and other gear carried inside the vehicle's pressurized module, which is built by Thales Alenia Space of Italy.
Future Cygnus flights will haul more cargo, but Suffredini said NASA requested a light load on the demonstration mission - mostly low-priority supplies that officials would not miss if lost.
The astronauts will place trash and other equipment for disposal into the Cygnus compartment before the automated spacecraft's departure in October. Like the space station's Japanese, European and Russian supply vehicles, the Cygnus will burn up in the atmosphere during re-entry.
SpaceX's Dragon capsule is the only operational cargo craft capable of returning significant payloads to Earth intact.
If the flight is successful, the next Cygnus mission - tentatively set for December - will be the first of eight operational cargo deliveries under a $1.9 billion resupply contract with NASA.
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Salo

http://www.aviationweek.com/Article.aspx?id=/article-xml/asd_09_05_2013_p04-01-613057.xml
ЦитироватьNASA Clears Cygnus For Sept. 17 ISS Launch
By Mark Carreau
Source: Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

HOUSTON — The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's HTV-4 resupply craft departed the International Space Station on Sept. 4, clearing a U.S. segment berthing port for Orbital Science Corp.'s Cygnus resupply capsule, which awaits liftoff from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Virginia's eastern shore under the demonstration phase of NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation Systems (COTS) program.

Shortly after the HTV-4 departure, a NASA Flight Readiness Review (FRR) cleared the two-stage Antares rocket and its Cygnus supply capsule loaded with 1,540 lb. of ISS cargo for a Sept. 17 liftoff at 11:16 a.m. EDT. The Dulles, Va.-based company will have through Sept. 29 to launch the mission, under its current FAA licensing agreement, though it may have to adjust to any changes in Orbital Sciences' scheduled Sept. 6 launch of NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer mission as well as a planned late September Russian ISS crew launch.

"We had a very thorough discussion," NASA's Mike Suffredini, the ISS program manager, told a post-FRR news briefing. "We are not working any issues." Bill Gerstenmaier, NASA's associate administrator for human exploration and operations, chaired the FRR.

A successful launch of the Antares and subsequent berthing of the Cygnus would mark the long-sought introduction of a second NASA-nurtured U.S. space station commercial resupply capability in the aftermath of the space shuttle's 2011 retirement.

By meeting all of its COTS milestones on the demonstration flight, Orbital Sciences will be eligible to launch the first of eight resupply missions agreed to under a $1.9 billion NASA Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) contract awarded in December 2008.

SpaceX, NASA's first COTS partner, achieved the COTS demonstration milestone in 2012 and has carried out two CRS missions under a 12-mission, $1.6 billion NASA contract.

With a successful liftoff, Cygnus will aim for a rendezvous with the ISS on Sept. 22 and remain berthed for 30 days, said Frank Culbertson, Orbital Sciences executive vice president. The company will be ready to launch its first CRS mission within 47 days of the demonstration mission's conclusion, Culbertson said.

Astronauts Karen Nyberg of NASA and Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency used the station's Canadian-built 58-ft.-long robot arm on Sept. 4 to release the departing HTV-4 at 12:20 p.m. EDT. JAXA's unpiloted HTV-4 rendezvoused with the ISS on Aug. 9, delivering 3.6 tons of pressurized and unpressurized supplies, including research gear and spare parts. The fourth of JAXA's resupply craft launched since 2009 departed the ISS filled with trash and is scheduled to burn up in the Earth's atmosphere on Sept. 7 at 2:34 a.m. EDT.

A series of instruments on the HTV-4 as well as video recording instrumentation on the ISS will observe the re-entry for a structural breakup analysis.

If successful, the Cygnus mission will satisfy the company's development responsibilities under a $288 million NASA COTS agreement reached in February 2008.
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Salo

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Salo

#52
http://www.orbital.com/Antares-Cygnus/
ЦитироватьCygnus Mated to Antares
September 2013

The Cygnus spacecraft that is scheduled to deliver cargo to the International Space Station following a launch currently scheduled to occur on September 17, has been mated to its Antares launch vehicle.Below are photos taken by Orbital's Dan Wiles in the Horizontal Integration Facility (HIF) on Wallops Island, VA at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility.


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ЦитироватьFairing Encapsulation Complete, Roll Out To Pad is Next
September 2013
Cygnus was encapsulated in the 9.9 meter (32.48 ft.) long Antares fairing on Sept 9, 2013 at the Horizontal Integration Facility (HIF) at Wallops Island Flight Facility. Technicians will perform final close outs in advance of roll out to Pad 0A currently scheduled to occur early Friday morning. Orbital's COTS Spacecraft Integration and Test Manager, Dan Wiles, snapped the photos below.
 http://www.orbital.com/Antares-Cygnus/ 
9 сентября накатили обтекатель.
До этого было сообщение о загрузке Лебедя. 



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ЦитироватьАртём Жаров пишет:
Вывозят

https://twitter.com/OrbitalSciences/status/378534539624071169

Похоже на мегагусеницу с соплами в качестве глаз. Жуть!  :o

Salo

#57
http://www.orbital.com/Antares-Cygnus/
ЦитироватьFinal Cargo Loaded Aboard Cygnus
September 2013

The final cargo bound for the International Space Station was loaded into our Cygnus spacecraft, and technicians closed the hatch and performed final close-outs to the Pressurized Cargo Module (PCM). Orbital personnel will conduct additional close-outs to the Antares rocket and install the payload fairing in advance of roll-out to the launch pad later this week.





Fairing Encapsulation Complete, Roll Out To Pad is Next
September 2013

Cygnus was encapsulated in the 9.9 meter (32.48 ft.) long Antares fairing on Sept 9, 2013 at the Horizontal Integration Facility (HIF) at Wallops Island Flight Facility. Technicians will perform final close outs in advance of roll out to Pad 0A currently scheduled to occur early Friday morning. Orbital's COTS Spacecraft Integration and Test Manager, Dan Wiles, snapped the photos below.




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