Cygnus NG-13 (CRS-13) - Antares-230+ - MARS LP-0A - 09.02.2020, 22:39 UTC

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NG-13: Antares 230+ launches S.S. Robert H. Lawrence Cygnus

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15 февр. 2020 г.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/LlTy_WMYt7w?feature=oembed (7:25)

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Northrop Grumman Antares and Cygnus Launch to the International Space Station

NASA

Трансляция началась 78 минут назад

https://www.youtube.com/embed/A5ApQ8k_Gt0 (1:00:20)

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andr59 написал:
Так там еще и русская речь шла фоном и голос ребенка и все это в течение нескольких секунд..Что это такое я подумал?

Как пишет Крис Би - были проблемы с микрофоном.

Да все как обычно - хайтеком тихо занимаются русские. Ну иногда пролезает в эфир по ошибке англоязычного обслуживающего персонала

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 NASA HQ PHOTO‏ @nasahqphoto 18 мин. назад

We have liftoff of @northropgrumman's Antares with the #Cygnus cargo spacecraft onboard full of science and supplies for the crew living and working on the  @Space_Station from @NASA_Wallops!

More coming soon!
https://flic.kr/s/aHsmLdbEk5

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 Stephen Clark‏ @StephenClark1 37 мин. назад

Official first motion time for today's Antares launch was 3:21:04.9 p.m. EST (2021:04.9 GMT).

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andr59 написал:
Так там еще и русская речь шла фоном и голос ребенка и все это в течение нескольких секунд..Что это такое я подумал?

Как пишет Крис Би - были проблемы с микрофоном.

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 Northrop Grumman‏ @northropgrumman 20 мин. назад

Solar arrays are fully deployed on the S.S. Robert Lawrence, Jr. #Cygnus. Next stop: @Space_Station.


 NASA Wallops‏ @NASA_Wallops 20 мин. назад

The @NorthropGrumman CRS-13 mission successfully launched from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility at 3:21 p.m. EST.

The Cygnus spacecraft's solar panels successfully deployed. Next stop, the @Space_Station!

: NASA/Terry Zaperach

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https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2020/02/15/u-s-cygnus-cargo-ship-blasts-off-to-station-for-tuesday-delivery/

U.S. Cygnus Cargo Ship Blasts Off to Station for Tuesday Delivery

Mark Garcia
Posted Feb 15, 2020 at 3:36 pm


Northrop Grumman's Cygnus resupply spacecraft launches on time atop the Antares rocket from the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Credit: NASA TV

Northrop Grumman's Cygnus resupply spacecraft is on its way to the station with approximately 7,500 pounds of science investigations and cargo after launching at 3:21 p.m. EST Saturday, Feb. 15 from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. At the time of liftoff, the International Space Station was flying 258 statute miles over the western Pacific, northeast of the Northern Mariana Island.

The spacecraft launched on an Antares rocket from the Virginia Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport's Pad 0A at Wallops. Automated command to initiate solar array deploy will begin at 4:40 p.m., about one hour and 19 minutes after launch. Solar array deployment will take about 30 minutes. Confirmation of solar deployment will be shared on the launch blog and social media at @NASA_Wallops and @space_station.

Cygnus is scheduled to arrive at the orbiting laboratory around 4:05 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 18. Coverage of the spacecraft's approach and arrival will begin at 2:30 a.m. on NASA Television and the agency's website. NASA astronaut Andrew Morgan will use the space station's robotic arm to capture Cygnus, while NASA's Jessica Meir monitors telemetry. The spacecraft is scheduled to stay at the space station until May.

The spacecraft's arrival brings more than 7,500 pounds of research and supplies to space station. Here are some of the scientific investigations:

Better Tissue and Cell Culturing in Space

Mobile SpaceLab, a tissue and cell culturing facility, offers investigators a quick-turnaround platform to perform sophisticated microgravity biology experiments. Such experiments are critical for determining how microgravity affects human physiology and identifying ways to mitigate negative effects. The platform can work in multiple configurations, allowing investigators to tailor the facility to their needs.

Mochii

The Mochii investigation provides an initial demonstration of a new miniature scanning electron microscope (SEM) with spectroscopy. Mochii will demonstrate real-time, on-site imaging and measurements of micro- and nanostructures aboard the space station. This capability could accelerate answers to many scientific inquiries and mission decisions and serve the public as a powerful and unique microgravity research platform.

Examining Bone Loss in Microgravity

Crew members experience bone loss in orbit, stemming from the lack of gravity acting on their bones. OsteoOmics investigates the molecular mechanisms that dictate this bone loss by examining osteoblasts, cells in the body that form bone, and osteoclasts, which dissolve bone. A better understanding of these mechanisms could lead to more effective prevention of astronaut bone loss during space missions.

Fighting Bacteria with Phages

Phage Evolution examines the effects of microgravity and radiation exposure on phage and bacterial host interactions, including phage specificity for a bacterial host and host resistance to specific phages. A better understanding of the effects of microgravity and cosmic radiation on bacteriophages and hosts could result in significant developments for phage technology, ultimately helping protect the health of astronauts on future missions.

(Do Not) Light My Fire

The Spacecraft Fire Experiment-IV (Saffire-IV) investigation examines fire development and growth in different materials and environmental conditions, fire detection and monitoring, and post-fire cleanup capabilities. It is part of a series of fire investigations conducted in the Cygnus resupply vehicle after its departure from space station, eliminating exposure of humans or occupied spacecraft to fire danger.


Northrop Grumman named the NG CRS-13 Cygnus spacecraft after former astronaut Robert Henry Lawrence Jr. Major Lawrence was selected in honor of his prominent place in history as the first African American astronaut.

This is Northrop Grumman's 13th cargo flight to the space station and will support dozens of new and existing investigations.

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https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-science-cargo-heads-to-space-station-on-northrop-grumman-mission-0

Feb. 16, 2020
RELEASE 20-014

NASA Science, Cargo Heads to Space Station on Northrop Grumman Mission


A Northrop Grumman Cygnus resupply spacecraft launched on an Antares 230+ rocket from the Virginia Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport's Pad 0A at Wallops at 3:21 p.m. EST Saturday, Feb. 15, 2020.
Credits: NASA

A Northrop Grumman Cygnus resupply spacecraft is on its way to the International Space Station with more than 8,000 pounds of science investigations and cargo after launching at 3:21 p.m. EST Saturday from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.

The spacecraft launched on an Antares 230+ rocket from the Virginia Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport's Pad 0A at Wallops and is scheduled to arrive at the space station at about 4:05 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 18. Coverage of the spacecraft's approach and arrival will begin at 2:30 a.m. on NASA Television and the agency's website.

Expedition 62 astronaut Andrew Morgan of NASA will use the space station's robotic arm to capture Cygnus, and NASA's Jessica Meir will monitor telemetry during rendezvous, capture, and installation on the Unity module's Earth-facing port. The spacecraft is scheduled to stay at the space station until May.

This delivery, Northrop Grumman's 13th cargo flight to the space station, the second under its Commercial Resupply Services 2 contract with NASA and designated NG-13, will support dozens of new and existing investigations.

Included in the scientific investigations Cygnus is delivering to the space station are:

Better Tissue and Cell Culturing in Space

Mobile SpaceLab, a tissue and cell-culturing facility, offers investigators a quick-turnaround platform to perform sophisticated microgravity biology experiments. Such experiments are critical for determining how microgravity affects human physiology and identifying ways to mitigate negative effects.

A Close-up View

The Mochii investigation provides an initial demonstration of a new miniature scanning electron microscope with spectroscopy. Mochii will demonstrate real-time, on-site imaging and measurements of micro- and nanostructures aboard the space station. This capability could accelerate answers to many scientific inquiries and mission decisions and serve the public as a powerful and unique microgravity research platform.

Examining Bone Loss in Microgravity

Astronauts experience bone loss in orbit, stemming from the lack of gravity acting on their bones. OsteoOmics investigates the molecular mechanisms that dictate this bone loss by examining osteoblasts, cells in the body that form bone, and osteoclasts, which dissolve bone. A better understanding of these mechanisms could lead to more effective prevention of astronaut bone loss during space missions.

Fighting Bacteria with Phages

Phage Evolution examines the effects of microgravity and radiation exposure on phage, viruses that destroy bacteria without harming human cells, and bacterial host interactions, including phage specificity for a bacterial host and host resistance to specific phages. A better understanding of the effects of microgravity and cosmic radiation on bacteriophages and hosts could result in significant developments for phage technology, ultimately helping protect the health of astronauts on future missions.

(Do Not) Light My Fire

The Spacecraft Fire Experiment-IV (Saffire-IV) investigation examines fire development and growth in different materials and environmental conditions, fire detection and monitoring, and post-fire cleanup capabilities. Saffire-IV contributes to fire safety efforts in similar environments on Earth, from submarines to mines, and helps improve general understanding and modeling of fire phenomena.

These are just a few of the hundreds of investigations currently being conducted aboard the orbiting laboratory in the areas of biology and biotechnology, physical sciences, and Earth and space science. Advances in these areas will help to keep astronauts healthy during long-duration space travel and demonstrate technologies for future human and robotic exploration beyond low-Earth orbit to the Moon and Mars through NASA's Artemis program.

This is the second time two Cygnus spacecraft will be in flight at the same time, as the NG-12 vehicle remains in orbit after departing from the station on Jan. 31. The Cygnus spacecraft will remain at the space station until May before it disposes of several thousand pounds of trash through its fiery reentry into Earth's atmosphere.

The Cygnus NG-13 spacecraft for this space station resupply mission is named in honor of U.S. Air Force Maj. Robert Lawrence, the first African American astronaut selected by any program, specifically chosen for the Air Force's Manned Orbital Laboratory Program in June 1967. Lawrence died in an F-104 Starfighter aircraft accident at Edwards Air Force Base, California six months later at the age of 32.

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Last Updated: Feb. 16, 2020
Editor: Katherine Brown

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02/15/2020 22:45   Stephen Clark

Three small satellites are hitching a ride to the International Space Station aboard the Cygnus supply ship.

Two of the miniature spacecraft are sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA. Another was developed at NASA's Ames Research Center in California.

The Red-Eye 2 microsatellite is the second in a series of Red-Eye satellites developed by DARPA. The Red-Eye satellites aim "to develop and demonstrate technologies that increase the utility of low-cost microsatellites," according to NASA.

The first Red-Eye satellite launched to the station aboard a SpaceX Dragon cargo ship last year, then was released from the NanoRacks Kaber deployer in June 2019.

"Red-Eye will demonstrate lightweight, low-power, gimballed inter-satellite communications links appropriate for the class of satellites approximately 100 kg (220 pounds) in size," NASA wrote in a summary of the experiment. "Red-Eye will also demonstrate new attitude control components, onboard processors, and software-defined radios."

Two CubeSat-class satellites are also aboard the Cygnus supply ship for release from the space station's smaller satellite deployer.

The Deformable Mirror, or DeMi, spacecraft is about the size of a small suitcase. Developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the deformable mirror instrument will demonstrate technologies that could be used on future space telescopes making high-contrast observations of exoplanets around bright stars. Such precision observations, which will use coronagraphs to blot out the light of the star, require the use of deformable mirrors inside the telescope that can be adjusted using internal actuators, according to MIT.

The deformable mirrors "can correct image plane aberrations and speckles caused by imperfections, thermal distortions, and diffraction in the telescope and optics that would otherwise corrupt the wavefront and allow leaking starlight to contaminate coronagraphic images," MIT scientists wrote in a summary of the demonstration.

DARPA is funding the DeMi experiment, and Aurora Flight Sciences is managing the mission.

NASA's TechEdSat 10 nanosatellite is the next in a line of experimental CubeSats developed at the Ames Research Center in California. According to NASA, the TechEdSat 10 spacecraft will function as a high temperature, accurate deorbit reentry nanosatellite.

Интересно, почему эти грузы не указаны в последней грузовой декларации? Контрабанда?

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https://www.militarynews.ru/story.asp?rid=1&nid=527286&lang=RU

На американском космическом корабле Cygnus после выхода на орбиту успешно раскрылись солнечные батареи
16.02.2020 1:33:47

Вашингтон. 16 февраля. ИНТЕРФАКС - На выведенном на орбиту американском грузовом космическом корабле Cygnus, который летит к Международной космической станции (МКС), успешно раскрылись солнечные батареи, сообщила корпорация-разработчик Northrop Grumman.

"Солнечные батареи полностью раскрылись", - говорится в сообщении.

Cygnus был выведен на орбиту в среду ракетой-носителем Antares, стартовавшей в субботу в 15:21 по времени Восточного побережья США (23:21 мск)" с космодрома NASA Уоллопс, который размещается на одноименном острове у атлантического побережья американского штата Вирджиния.

Солнечные батареи обеспечивают корабль энергией, необходимой для продолжения полета к МКС.

Стыковку корабля Cygnus с МКС планируется осуществить 18 февраля в 04:05 по времени Восточного побережья США (12:05 мск), сообщило Национальное управление США по аэронавтике и исследованию космического пространства (NASA). Cygnus должен доставить на МКС около 3,6 тонн груза, в том числе продовольствие, а также оборудование и материалы для проведения десятков научных исследований.
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https://www.militarynews.ru/story.asp?rid=1&nid=527285&lang=RU

Американский космический корабль Cygnus везет экипажу МКС твердые сыры, шоколад и свежие фрукты
16.02.2020 1:05:38

Вашингтон. 16 февраля. ИНТЕРФАКС - Американская ракета-носитель Antares с грузовым космическим кораблем Cygnus, стартовавшая в субботу к Международной космической станции (МКС), везет ее экипажу различные лакомства, сообщило Национальное управление США по аэронавтике и исследованию космического пространства (NASA).

"Космический корабль, в частности, доставит на МКС шоколад и конфеты, несколько сортов твердых сыров и свежие фрукты", - сообщил менеджер NASA Вен Фенг, отвечающий за снабжение станции.

По его словам, "твердый сыры - это, в том числе, чеддер и (испанский овечий сыр) манчего"". Кроме того, в связи с Днем Святого Валентина, корабль также привезет экипажу станции шоколад Lindt.

Запуск корабля был осуществлен в субботу в 15:21 по времени Восточного поборежья США (23:21 мск) с космодрома NASA Уоллопс, который размещается на одноименном острове у атлантического побережья американского штата Вирджиния.

Стыковка корабля Cygnus с МКС запланирована на 18 февраля в 04:05 по времени Восточного побережья США (12:05 мск). Она будет осуществляться путем захвата "грузовика" дистанционной рукой-манипулятором Canadarm-2 МКС, которым будет управлять американский астронавт Эндрю Морган, и последующим присоединением его по командам с Центра управления полетами NASA в Хьюстоне (штат Техас) к американскому сегменту станции - модулю Unity.

Cygnus должен доставить на МКС около 3,6 тонн груза, в том числе продовольствие, а также оборудование и материалы для проведения десятков научных исследований.

Запуск осуществлен в рамках коммерческого контракта NASA с корпорацией Northrop Grumman, которой принадлежит ракета-носитель и автоматический грузовой космический корабль, по снабжению МКС.

Американский "грузовик" пробудет в составе МКС три месяца - до 11 мая. После расстыковки с МКС Cygnus выведет на орбиту малые спутники, а на его борту планируется устроить пожар для изучения условий распространения огня в невесомости. 25 мая по командам с ЦУПа NASA в Хьюстоне Cygnus будет сведен с орбиты и сгорит в плотных слоях атмосферы. Корабль заберет с собой со станции мусор и отходы общим весом около 2,5 тонн.

Это уже 13-й полет космического "грузовика" корпорации Northrop Grumman к МКС. Был также еще один неудачный запуск в 2014 году, когда корабль не долетел до станции вследствие аварии ракеты-носителя Antares. Первый успешный запуск корабля Cygnus состоялся 18 сентября 2013 года.

В настоящее время на МКС продолжают работу россиянин Олег Скрипочка и американские астронавты Эндрю Морган и Джессика Меир.

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НОРАД обнаружил три объекта запуска

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0 TBA - TO BE ASSIGNED
1 45175U 20011A   20046.91642222 -.00003724  11776-4  00000+0 0  9998
2 45175  51.6206 234.0884 0054059 132.1856  19.0743 16.15847900    07

0 TBA - TO BE ASSIGNED
1 45176U 20011B   20046.91641494 -.00003795  11998-4  00000+0 0  9993
2 45176  51.6204 234.0925 0019913 118.2446  34.8440 16.24845872    18

0 TBA - TO BE ASSIGNED
1 45177U 20011C   20046.91646115 -.00003721  11766-4  00000+0 0  9991
2 45177  51.6413 234.0770 0054766 133.8919  17.4197 16.15467197    0745175 / 2020-011A : 195 x 267 km x 51.621°, 89.12 min, 2020-02-15 21:59:38
45176 / 2020-011B : 193 x 220 km x 51.620°, 88.62 min, 2020-02-15 21:59:38
45177 / 2020-011C : 196 x 268 km x 51.641°, 89.13 min, 2020-02-15 21:59:42

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Chris Gnam‏ @chris_gnam 54 мин. назад

Shot from my camera on the north side of the pad!

So happy with the results for my first time setting remotes!
#nasa #space #iss

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T.S. Kelso‏ @TSKelso 4 ч. назад

CelesTrak has TLEs for 3 objects from the CYGNUS NG-13 launch (2020-011) out of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on an Antares launch vehicle at 2021 UTC on Feb 15: https://spaceflightnow.com/2020/02/15/antares-rocket-lifts-off-from-virginia-on-space-station-cargo-mission/ ....






 Jonathan McDowell @planet4589 2 ч. назад

Three objects cataloged from the NG-13 launch in 195 x 267, 196 x 268 and 193 x 220 km orbits. Presumably Cygnus and the Antares second stage, but what is the third object? Probably debris from the upper stage, unless there was an undeclared payload deployed from the stage

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