Cygnus NG-10 (CRS-10) - Antares-230 - MARS LP-0A - 17.11.2018 09:01 UTC

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Обзор "What's on Board" завершен

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Jeff Foust‏ @jeff_foust 7 мин. назад

One key takeaway from the #NG10 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.

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Jeff Foust‏ @jeff_foust 7 мин. назад

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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Northrop Grumman‏Подлинная учетная запись @northropgrumman 10:51 - 13 нояб. 2018 г.

Following our NG-10 #Antares launch of #Cygnus to the @Space_Station? Keep an eye on our Flickr account for new images!

http://bit.ly/2qLVOb2 

#NorthropGrumman

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http://militarynews.ru/story.asp?rid=1&nid=495223

Американская 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.

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https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/11/13/antares-rocket-transferred-to-virginia-launch-pad-for-station-resupply-flight/

Antares rocket transferred to Virginia launch pad for station resupply flight
November 13, 2018 | 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.


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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Chris G - NSF‏ @ChrisG_NSF 42 мин. назад

Both the #SpaceX and #Antares launches are being affected Thursday by the same frontal system currently moving its way across the U.S.

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ISS National Lab Northrop Grumman CRS-10 Science Overview

Center for the Advancement of Science In Space (CASIS)

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.

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

Center for the Advancement of Science In Space (CASIS)

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.

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Animation of Canadarm2 catching a Cygnus resupply ship

Canadian Space Agency

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)

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https://blogs.nasa.gov/northropgrumman/2018/11/13/antares-ng-10-whats-on-board/

Antares NG-10: What's On Board?

Rob Garner
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 that will be facilitated by investigations aboard this Cygnus include:

A test of the first integrated 3D printer and recycler 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.


Dr. Allison Porter, flight missions manager at Tethers Unlimited Inc., with a mock-up of the Refabricator, 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 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.


Image courtesy Higher Orbits.
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An investigation into the complex process of cement solidification 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, 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. They include an investigation to evaluate growth of protein crystals implicated in Parkinson's disease and astrophysics research to examine the formation of chondrules, some of the oldest material in the solar system.


Additional science highlights

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Northrop Grumman‏Подлинная учетная запись @northropgrumman 6 ч. назад

Heads up! Tomorrow morning at 6:30 am EST we will bring you a live, behind the scenes look at our #Antares rocket on the launch pad at @NASA_Wallops. Tune in to our Facebook account to learn more about the mission!
#Cygnus #NorthropGrumman http://www.facebook.com/northropgrumman 

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Briefing Previews The Science Onboard Upcoming Space Station Supply Mission

NASA Video

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.

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NASA Wallops‏Подлинная учетная запись @NASA_Wallops 56 мин. назад

Wallops is hosting a pre-launch press conference this morning airing on NASA TV in preparation for the upcoming @northropgrumman CRS-10 mission. Tune in on http://nasa.gov/live  at 11 a.m. and send in your questions using #AskNASA.

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По моим прикидкам стартовый вес "грузовика" около 7428 кг. Наверняка официально опять скажут, что 6173 кг.

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