Cygnus OA-7 (CRS-7) - Atlas V - Canaveral SLC-41 - 18.04.2017 15:11 UTC

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Виктор Кондрашов пишет:
 А почему у Спейсов при всех запусках к МКС окно "в точку", а этих аж полчаса?

Выше в теме писали, что Атлас может изменять плоскость орбиты во время выведения. За счет этого большое окно для запуска. На Фалконе либо это не запрограммировано, либо, с учетом посадки первой ступени, не хватает дельта-V.

[Зловредный]

А почему тогда при выведении Фалконом на ГПО окно может быть по 4 часа? Потому, что там шире допуск по плоскости орбиты?

[Дем]

Спутник на геостационаре неподвижен относительно точки вывода, поэтому его пускать можно круглосуточно.
Единственное что подбирают - чтобы траектория вывода была в тени чтобы кислород не перегрелся до второго включения.

[Salo]

https://spaceflightnow.com/2017/04/08/videos-cygnus-prepped-for-mission-to-space-laboratory/

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45th Space Wing‏ @45thSpaceWing 4 мин назад

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http://www.patrick.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/1146698/next-launch-atlas-v/

Next launch: Atlas V
 
By 45th Space Wing Public Affairs / Published April 10, 2017

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CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, Fla. --

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https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-tv-to-air-orbital-atk-resupply-mission-launch-briefings

April 11, 2017
 MEDIA ADVISORY M17-028
 
 NASA TV to Air Orbital ATK Resupply Mission Launch, Briefings

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 In this Oct. 23, 2016 image, the International Space Station's Canadarm2 robotic arm captures Orbital ATK's Cygnus cargo spacecraft on its sixth mission to the station. The company's seventh cargo resupply mission is targeted for launch April 18 from NASA's Kennedy Space Center.
Credits: NASA

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NASA commercial cargo provider Orbital ATK is targeting its seventh commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station for 11:11 a.m. EDT Tuesday, April 18. Coverage of the launch begins at 10 a.m. on NASA Television and the agency's website.

Two prelaunch briefings will air the day prior to launch. At 10:30 a.m., mission managers will provide an overview and status of launch operations and at 1 p.m., scientists and researchers will discuss some of the investigations to be delivered to the station.

Dubbed S.S. John Glenn, the Cygnus spacecraft name is a tribute to the former astronaut and U.S. Senator from Ohio. It will launch on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Coverage of the spacecraft's solar array deployment will begin at 12:40 p.m. April 18, and will be followed by a 2 p.m. press conference with mission managers.

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Under NASA's Commercial Resupply Services contract, Cygnus will carry more than 7,600 pounds of science research, crew supplies and hardware to the orbiting laboratory in support of the Expedition 50 and 51 crew members.

The new experiments will include an antibody investigation that could increase the effectiveness of chemotherapy drugs for cancer treatment and an advanced plant habitat for studying plant physiology and growth of fresh food in space. Another new investigation bound for the U.S. National Laboratory will look at using magnetized cells and tools to make it easier to handle cells and cultures, and improve the reproducibility of experiments. Cygnus also is carrying 38 CubeSats, including many built by university students from around the world as part of the QB50 program. The CubeSats are scheduled to deploy from either the spacecraft or space station in the coming months.

When it arrives to the space station, Expedition 51 Commander Peggy Whitson of NASA and Flight Engineer Thomas Pesquet of ESA (European Space Agency) will grapple Cygnus. Whitson will use the space station's robotic arm, Canadarm2, to take hold of the spacecraft. After Canadarm2 captures Cygnus, ground commands will be sent for the station's arm to rotate and install it on the bottom of the station's Unity module.

Cygnus will remain on the station until July, when it will depart with several tons of trash for a fiery reentry into Earth's atmosphere. Prior to re-entry, a third experiment will be conducted to study how fire burns in space.

This is Orbital ATK's third launch from Cape Canaveral. Missions from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia are scheduled to resume for the eighth and subsequent contracted flights.

For an updated schedule of prelaunch briefings, events and NASA TV coverage, visit:

 

https://www.nasa.gov/content/orbital-atk-crs-7-briefings-and-events

For NASA TV downlink information, schedules and links to streaming video, visit:

 

https://www.nasa.gov/nasatv

Follow countdown coverage on our launch blog at:

 

https://blogs.nasa.gov/orbital

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Cheryl Warner
 Headquarters, Washington
 202-358-1100
cheryl.m.warner@nasa.gov

Amber Philman / Stephanie Martin
 Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
 321-867-2468
amber.n.philman@nasa.gov / stephanie.a.martin@nasa.gov

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Last Updated: April 11, 2017
Editor: Karen Northon

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ULA‏Подлинная учетная запись @ulalaunch 3 ч. назад

Anyone ready for a launch? #AtlasV #OA7 set to launch April 18 at 11:11 a.m. http://bit.ly/av_oa7 

http://www.ulalaunch.com/atlas-v-to-launch-oa7-for-orbital-atk-nasa.aspx

Atlas V to Launch OA-7 for Orbital ATK and NASA

Atlas V OA-7 Mission Overview

Rocket/Payload:A United Launch Alliance Atlas V 401 will launch Orbital ATK's Cygnus™ spacecraft on the initial leg of its cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS).

Date/Site/Launch Time:  Tuesday, April 18, from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The 30-minute launch window opens at 11:11 a.m. EDT.

Live Broadcast: The Live broadcast will begin at 10 a.m. EDT.

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[Pirat5]

По информации Гюнтера, ещё выбыл ANUSAT 2 (QB50 IN01)
состав того, что осталось для пуска:

[Pirat5]

Да, и Violet (Nanosat 6) (50kg) тоже вроде бы вылетел из пускового списка

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https://spaceflightnow.com/2017/04/12/cygnus-freighter-to-make-science-enabling-delivery-to-the-space-station/

Cygnus freighter to make science-enabling delivery to the space station
 April 12, 2017 Justin Ray


The Orbital ATK and NASA logos for the OA-7 Cygnus mission. Credit: Orbital ATK and NASA

CAPE CANAVERAL — Loaded with investigations into chemotherapy drugs with reduced side effects and radiation detectors for homeland security, a plant-growing chamber to promote future food harvesting in space and a technology demonstration for sample-return capsules, a commercial Cygnus cargo vessel will be sent to the International Space Station next week.

Built in the U.S. and Italy and operated by Orbital ATK of Dulles, Virginia, the eight-ton ship will be heaved into orbit by a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket.

Liftoff fr om Cape Canaveral is planned for Tuesday at 11:11 a.m. EDT (1511 GMT).

"The ISS program is very excited to see the seventh Cygnus spacecraft arrive at the station. This unmanned cargo vehicle will bring nearly 3,500 kg scientific supplies and additional hardware necessary to support ongoing research efforts conducted by the crew members aboard. ISS and our sustained human presence in space is a valuable stepping-stone for future exploration activities that provides an opportunity to develop new technologies that benefit all of humanity," said Holly Vavrin fr om the International Space Station Program Office at NASA's Johnson Space Center.

"After departing from ISS, Cygnus will performance additional science objectives including third spacecraft fire safety experiment, called SAFFIRE, additional cubesat deployments and a re-entry data collection."

Just some of the new research launching aboard Cygnus includes:

** Antibody-Drug Conjugates in Microgravity **

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This test could yield better drug designs for cancer patients to deliver targeted chemotherapy directly to cancerous cells and avoid healthy cells to reduce side effects.

 
Credit: Oncolinx

"When cancer cells are in a petri dish, they lay flat and you have a 2-D structure of cancer. That's not how cancer grows in the body and solid tumors are 3-dimensional...In this study in the microgravity environment, the cancer cells will form spheric balls wh ere they will more accurate represent solid tumors. From there, we will be able to understand how these drugs metabolize different, how they more or less advantageous, and hopefully that will give us more insight how we plan to treat solid tumors with this novel-class of drugs," said Principal Investigator Sourav Sinha from Oncolinx LLC of Boston.

Antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) are therapeutics that target tumors through receptors on the surface of cancer cells. By testing the drugs in space, they will be applied to cells that grow more life-like than can be created on Earth. The 3-D structure of tumors cultured in microgravity result in accelerated drug testing and bringing new therapeutics to the market quicker.

"There is a significant amount of crew time involved in this because we have a number of different variables that we are testing — dosages of the drug, controls of the drug and time points," Sinha said.

The cells are launched frozen, then thawed once in orbit to begin the research. It will be performed in the Expedite the Processing of Experiments to the Space Station (EXPRESS) rack.

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** Crystal Growth of Cs2LiYCl6:CE (CLYC) Scintillators in Microgravity **

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This experiment aims to grow a new type of scintillator crystal for use in portable radiation detectors employed by Homeland Security. Scintillators excite when exposed to certain types of radiation. Four experiment runs are planned inside the Solidification Using a Baffle in Sealed Ampoules (SUBSA) furnace of the Microgravity Science Glovebox.

 
Credit: Radiation Monitoring Devices

"The main advantage of microgravity for crystal growth, in general, is the absence of buoyancy-driven convection. On Earth, hot fluids rise up and cold fluids sink down due to density differences. In microgravity, this doesn't happen, and it affects how fluid in our molten material transports, how molecules and atoms of material assemble into the crystal. It's significantly different in microgravity than on Earth," said Alexei Churilov, Ph.D., the experiment's principal investigator from Radiation Monitoring Devices, Inc. of Watertown, Massachusetts.

The space research will inform ways for the company scale-up its production of the crystals on Earth.

"Even though we are continuing research to improve these crystals in our production, there are still challenges and defects in crystals that include cracks, grain boundaries, bubbles and secondary phase inclusions which will be affected to one degree or another by growing these crystals in microgravity without convection."

If successful, small and inexpensive instruments could be made to detect both gamma rays and neutrons.

"These detectors are used to distinguish between harmless sources of radiation and radiation from, for example, enriched uranium from a nuclear bomb. The advantage of CLYC crystals is you can detect both gamma rays and neutron in one detector."

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** Advanced Plant Habitat **

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A stepping-stone to food production in deep space is the Advanced Plant Habitat launching on OA-7 to take up residence aboard the International Space Station. About the size of a mini-refrigerator, it features 180 sensors to carefully measure light, water and the atmosphere in the plant-growing chamber.

 
Credit: NASA/Bill White

"It's really the culmination of four-to-five years of developmental effort that will result in the largest and most sophisticated apparatus for growing plants on the International Space Station," said Howard Levine, project scientist at NASA's Kennedy Space Center.

A science carrier, roughly the size of a large pizza box, will be launched on this Cygnus with seeds of wheat and Arabidopsis, a small flowering plant. A seed wetting and germination is planned to demonstrate the performance of the hardware before peer-reviewed plant bioscience launches in November.

"One of the main advantages of the hardware is it has precise controls of all different kinds of environmental parameters, so you can do controlled experiments with plants under different temperature, relative humidity and CO2 concentration values," Levine said.

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** Cubesats **

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There are 38 cubesats being launched aboard this Cygnus, 34 that will be transferred over to the space station for eventual deployments from the Japanese Kibo module's airlock and four that are mounted externally to the cargo ship. After Cygnus departs the station in July, it will climb to a higher altitude, around 310 miles, and eject them into space.

 
Inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, technicians to install the external cubesat deployer onto Cygnus. Credit: NASA/Cory Huston

A vast majority of station-deployed cubesats are part of the QB50 project to study the science of the atmosphere. A constellation of 28 cubesats will be launched as part of a European Union research program involving universities on five continents. The craft will probe the gas molecules and electrical properties in the poorly-studied region of the upper fringes of the atmosphere called the thermosphere.

"Small satellites are well poised to research the lower thermosphere because you need small sensors and many in-situ measurements at multi points along the way. So cubesats, which started about 15 years ago, are perfect for this project," said Henry Martin, external payloads coordinator from NanoRacks in Houston.

The six other cubesats going to the station include four from NASA, one from the Defense Department and one commercial. They include a mission to measure the cosmic X-ray background, one to test a new light-weight, longer-life battery system designed for the cold temperatures of space and another to measure ice particles within clouds.

The four riding in the Cygnus external deployer are LEMUR-2 cubesats for meteorology and ship tracking.

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** Spacecraft Fire Experiment-3 **

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After departing from space station, Cygnus will host the third spacecraft fire safety experiment, called SAFFIRE, to study the behavior of flames and combustion in microgravity for future capsule designers.

 
The SAFFIRE experiment. Credit: NASA

Cygnus conducted SAFFIRE burns on its two flights last year. This test will use one large piece of material to burn, but apply lessons from the earlier experiment runs.

"They've adjusted the airflow rate and ignition sequence based on the results seen on the last two," said Vavrin.

SAFFIRE is a large, self-contained experiment stowed in the back of the Cygnus module. The blaze is ground-commanded.

Sensors will record the ambient temperature and the oxygen and carbon dioxide concentrations, two video cameras provide top views of the entire sample, thermocouples are woven into the sample and a radiometer measures the heat given off.

The flame propagates over a panel of thin material approximately 0.4 m wide by 0.94 m long (15.7 x 37 inches) to quantify flame development over a large sample in low-gravity.

Cygnus will remain in orbit for several days until all of the data and video recorded during the experiment are downlinked to the ground.

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** Thermal Protection Material Flight Test and Reentry Data Collection (RED-Data2) **

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A company wanting to develop a family of re-entry vehicles to return scientific research samples to Earth from the space station will get a demonstration test at the end of the Cygnus flight when it brakes from orbit.

 
One of the probes. Credit: Terminal Velocity Aerospace

"For this experiment, we are flying three different probes and we have three new heat shield materials that NASA is wanting to get flight-test data for," said John Dec, principle investigator of the RED-Data 2 experiment at Terminal Velocity Aerospace in Atlanta.

"The primary data that we are attempting to collect is temperature data from thermocouples that are embedded in the heat shield of each probe."

The three materials being put to the test: A new form of Avcoat that will be used on Orion human spacecraft, the others, developed by the NASA Ames Research Center, are the lightweight Conformal Phenolic Impregnated Carbon Ablator (C-PICA) and Conformal Silicone Impregnated Refractory Ceramic Ablator (C-SIRCA).

"It's kind of like a lawn dart without the stick," Dec said of the probes. "The RED-Data probes are only about 9 inches in diameter and weigh about 5.5 kilograms."

Kept inside the Cygnus throughout its mission, the three soccer ball-sized RED-Data-2 probes will be dispersed once the freighter breaks up during atmospheric re-entry at the conclusion of its three-month mission. Each probe will record vehicle location, temperature, acceleration, pressure and gyroscopic data seen during the fiery plunge back to Earth.

"When Cygnus does its de-orbit burn, it will start to re-enter the atmosphere and that's when we begin to collect our data. We use the accelerations to determine whether or not we're actually starting to re-enter. When Cygnus breaks up, our vehicles are then released into the free-stream flow and that's really when our experiment begins," Dec said.

"We have to wait to emerge from the ionization blackout, up until then we are storing data onboard. As soon as we emerge from the blackout, we use the Iridium satellite network to transmit all of our data from our vehicles to the Iridium network and then down to us at the ground station. We never physically recover vehicles, they land in the ocean, but we do get the data back."

The probes use a 45-degree sphere-cone geometry that is designed to always right itself and orient nose-first within a couple of seconds.

"This shape is very easily scaled up in size. So what we foresee in the future is to have a sample-return capability. It would be an on-demand type of down-mass capability for the space station...That's really wh ere our future direction is going is to develop a vehicle big enough to bring samples back," said Dec.

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Orbital ATK‏Подлинная учетная запись @OrbitalATK 41 мин. назад

#tbt to preparing our #OA7 #Cygnus spacecraft for fairing encapsulation. Launch scheduled for 4/18 at 11:11 am ET aboard @ulalaunch #AtlasV!

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Orbital ATK Cygnus Cargo Module Ready for Delivery to International Space Station
 
 
 NASAKennedy

Опубликовано: 13 апр. 2017 г.

The Orbital ATK Cygnus pressurized cargo module is packed with science experiments, supplies and hardware for delivery to the International Space Station on CRS-7. Orbital ATK's seventh commercial resupply services mission will launch atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

[Lanista]

А из названия темы Антарес когда уберут?

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Inside KSC! for April 14, 2017
 
 
 NASAKennedy

Опубликовано: 14 апр. 2017 г.

The Orion crew module that traveled beyond low-Earth orbit on Exploration Flight Test 1 in 2014 was moved from the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building to nearby Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. On track to launch next week is Orbital ATK's CRS-7 commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station.

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Spaceflight Now‏ @SpaceflightNow 10 ч. назад

Weather forecast issued on this Good Friday predicts favorable weather for Tuesday's Atlas 5 launch for #OA7 Cygnus https://spaceflightnow.com/2017/04/14/atlas-5-rocket-aims-for-tuesday-morning-launch-of-supplies-to-space-station/ ...

https://spaceflightnow.com/2017/04/14/atlas-5-rocket-aims-for-tuesday-morning-launch-of-supplies-to-space-station/

Atlas 5 rocket aims for Tuesday morning launch of supplies to space station
 April 14, 2017 Justin Ray

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The Atlas 5 will be rolled to the launch pad on Monday. Credit: United Launch Alliance

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CAPE CANAVERAL — Air Force meteorologists on this Good Friday have released their initial forecast for Tuesday's launch of a cargo ship to the International Space Station, predicting favorable conditions to fly the Atlas 5 booster on a commercial mission.

The United Launch Alliance rocket will propel Orbital ATK's Cygnus automated resupply freighter into low-Earth orbit from Cape Canaveral.

Liftoff on Tuesday will be possible during any of five specific opportunities in a 30-minute launch window, with the rocket's in-flight steering capabilities employed to guide Cygnus into the station's orbital plane:

Opportunity 1: 11:11:23 a.m. EDT
 Opportunity 2: 11:18:53 a.m. EDT
 Opportunity 3: 11:26:23 a.m. EDT (in-plane)
 Opportunity 4: 11:33:53 a.m. EDT
 Opportunity 5: 11:41:23 a.m. EDT

(* exact times will be tweaked by a few seconds based on final radar tracking of the station's orbit on launch day.)

It will be the 71st Atlas 5 launch and the third to deploy a Cygnus for the space station.

The spacecraft weighs 15,928 pounds, and it is loaded with 7,443 pounds of internal cargo and an 183-pound external deployer for cubesats.

Cygnus will take a four-day trek to the orbiting laboratory for rendezvous next Saturday, April 22. Grapple of the vessel by the station's robotic arm, operated by Expedition 51 flight engineer Thomas Pesquet, is planned for 6:05 a.m. EDT (1005 GMT).

Weather forecasters predict an 80 percent chance of acceptable conditions for launch, with cumulus clouds posing only slight concerns.

"High pressure with a tight pressure gradient over Central Florida will dictate this weekend's weather. Breezy, on-shore winds will persist through Sunday night with a chance of a brief, coastal shower. On Monday for MLP roll, favorable weather conditions will continue and on-shore winds will weaken slightly as the high pressure system moves eastward into the Atlantic Ocean," the Air Force launch weather team said this morning.

"On launch day, high pressure continues to provide favorable weather with a slight chance of a coastal shower. Winds remain on-shore with peak wind speeds in the low-teens during the launch window.

The launch time specifics include scattered clouds, good visibility, winds from the east at 8 to 13 knots, a relative humidity of 72 percent and a temperature of 75 degrees F.

If the launch slips to Wednesday's 30-minute window that opens at 10:48 a.m. EDT (1448 GMT), there is a 70 percent chance of good launch weather.

"In the event of a 24 hour delay, winds will turn more southeasterly and bring an increase in low-level moisture. Coupled with an upper level trough pushing into the Eastern Gulf of Mexico, the Florida peninsula will experience increasing cloudiness and showers. Wind speeds will be in the mid-teens," forecasters say.

"The primary concerns for launch are cumulus clouds and thick clouds."

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Прогноз погоды L-4
AV-070 OA-7 L-4 Forecast.pdf
 

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Отчетности для...

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OA-7 Space Station Cargo Resupply Preparation and Loading
 
 
 The Space Program

Опубликовано: 9 апр. 2017 г.

The OA-7 mission is targeted to launch on April 18, 2017 from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Orbital ATK will launch Cygnus atop a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket for delivery of essential crew supplies, equipment and scientific experiments to astronauts aboard the International Space Station.

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Cygnus will carry the SAFFIRE-3 space combustion experiment from NASA's Glenn Research Center that will intentionally burn a single large sample of material to study flame development in space. Cygnus will also carry the Reentry Data Collection (RED-Data-2) flight recorder to provide crucial data about the extreme conditions a spacecraft encounters during atmospheric reentry.

OA-7 will mark Orbital ATK's seventh cargo delivery mission for NASA under its Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) -1 contract.

Cargo is delivered to the station using Orbital ATK's Cygnus spacecraft. The Cygnus spacecraft consists of two modules: the Service Module (SM) which incorporates the avionics, propulsion and power systems from Orbital ATK'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 Orbital ATK's Dulles, Virginia satellite manufacturing facility. The PCM is supplied by Thales Alenia Space and is produced in Turin Italy.

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OA-7 Mission Preview

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Orbital ATK

Опубликовано: 10 мар. 2017 г.

Take a look at the mission preview for our OA-7 mission, set to launch in March 2017 aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The S.S. John Glenn Cygnus spacecraft will deliver essential supplies, equipment and science experiments to astronauts aboard the International Space Station.

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https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/watch-world-s-first-live-360-degree-video-of-rocket-launch-april-18

April 14, 2017
 
 Watch World's First Live 360 Degree Video of Rocket Launch April 18

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The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket is seen in a December 2015 image in place at Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Sealed inside the payload fairing atop the rocket is the Orbital ATK Cygnus spacecraft filled with science, crew supplies and equipment that launched to the International Space Station on December 6, 2015.
Credits: United Launch Alliance

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NASA, in coordination with United Launch Alliance (ULA) and Orbital ATK, will broadcast the world's first live 360-degree stream of a rocket launch. The live 360 stream of the cargo resupply mission liftoff to the International Space Station may be viewed on the NASA Television YouTube channel starting 10 minutes prior to lift off at:
 

http://youtube.com/nasatelevision

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Orbital ATK's Cygnus spacecraft will launch on a ULA Atlas V rocket carrying more than 7,600 pounds of science research, crew supplies and hardware to the orbiting laboratory. Launch is targeted for Tuesday, April 18 during a 30-minute window that opens at 11:11 a.m. EDT.

To view in 360, use a mouse or move a personal device to look up and down, back and forth, for a 360-degree view around Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. Note: not all browsers support viewing 360 videos. YouTube supports playback of 360-degree videos on computers using Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer and Opera browsers. Viewers may use the YouTube app to view the launch on a smart phone. Those who own virtual reality headsets will be able to look around and experience the view as if they were actually standing on the launch pad.

While virtual reality and 360 technology have been increasing in popularity, live 360 technology is a brand new capability that has recently emerged. Recognizing the exciting possibilities opened by applying this new technology to spaceflight, NASA, ULA, and Orbital ATK seized this opportunity to virtually place the public at the base of the rocket during launch. Minimum viewing distance is typically miles away from the launch pad, but the live 360 stream enables viewers to get a pads-eye view.

For information about Orbital ATK's cargo resupply mission, visit:

 

http://www.nasa.gov/orbitalatk

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Jason Townsend
 Headquarters, Washington
 202-358-0359
jason.c.townsend@nasa.gov

Sarah McNulty
 Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
 321-867-2468
sarah.e.mcnulty@nasa.gov

Sean Wilson
 Orbital ATK
 832-415-1254
sean.wilson@orbitalatk.com

Christa Bell
 United Launch Alliance
 720-556-6304
christa.m.bell@ulalaunch.com

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Last Updated: April 14, 2017
Editor: Katherine Brown