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

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Northrop Grumman‏Подлинная учетная запись @northropgrumman 8:01 - 14 нояб. 2018 г.

Given the forecasted weather conditions, @NASA and #NorthropGrumman have decided to move the NG-10 #Antares and #Cygnus launch one day to November 16 at 4:23 a.m. EST

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Northrop Grumman‏Подлинная учетная запись @northropgrumman 8:14 - 14 нояб. 2018 г.

We are now in final preparation for our NG-10 #Antares #Cygnus 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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Northrop Grumman‏Подлинная учетная запись @northropgrumman 43 мин. назад

Once our NG-10 S.S. John Young #Cygnus competes its mission on board, it will deploy 3 cubesats both above and below the @Space_Station, a first for the spcecraft.
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Northrop Grumman‏Подлинная учетная запись @northropgrumman 8:28 - 14 нояб. 2018 г.

Fun Fact: #Cygnus is carrying fresh fruit and ice cream for astronauts on board @Space_Station.
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NASA 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

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https://blogs.nasa.gov/northropgrumman/2018/11/14/northrop-grumman-crs-10-launch-postponed-to-nov-16/

Northrop Grumman CRS-10 Launch Postponed to Nov. 16

Rob Garner
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.


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 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.

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https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2018/11/14/dual-cargo-missions-set-for-friday-launch-and-sunday-delivery/

Dual Cargo Missions Set for Friday Launch and Sunday Delivery

Mark Garcia
Posted Nov 14, 2018 at 12:33 pm


Two rockets stand at their launch pads on opposite sides of the world. Northrop Grumman's Antares rocket (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 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 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 astronauts Alexander Gerst and Serena Auñón-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.

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

NASA

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.

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Briefing Discusses Prelaunch Status of Space Station Supply Mission

NASA Video

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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tnt22 пишет:
Northrop Grumman ‏Подлинная учетная запись @northropgrumman 43 мин. назад
Once our NG-10 S.S. John Young #Cygnus competes its mission on board, it will deploy 3 cubesats both above and below the @Space_Station , a first for the spcecraft.

У Синусов в плане попуток какая-то нездоровая тайна: вплоть до самого пуска непонятно кто летит.
По последним данным Гюнтера, из всей толпы останутся только MYSAT 1 (1U, ОАЭ, Technology, education) и KickSat 2 (3U, 128+104 Sprites - пикоспутники). Добавится ещё CHEFsat 2 (3U, USA, Technology).
Малютки ThinSat 1 и набор спутников ELaNa 21 не полетит.
 

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Pirat5 пишет:
У Синусов в плане попуток какая-то нездоровая тайна: вплоть до самого пуска непонятно кто летит.

Может они их выбирают после окончательной загрузки корабля, по весу?

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Может, но были случаи, что про спутники, запускаемые с Синусом, прежде всего рассказывали не владельцы ракеты, а хозяева спутников.

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https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/11/14/antares-launch-from-virginia-delayed-to-friday/

Antares launch from Virginia delayed to Friday
November 14, 2018 | Stephen Clark


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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