Waspie_Dwarf Posted December 31, 2013 #1 Share Posted December 31, 2013 (edited) Antares Launch Scheduled Jan. 7 The NASA Wallops Flight Facility and Virginia’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport are set to support the launch of Orbital Sciences’ Corp. Antares rocket at 1:55 p.m. EST, Jan. 7.The Antares rocket will carry Orbital’s Cygnus cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station. Read more... Edited January 7, 2014 by Waspie_Dwarf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waspie_Dwarf Posted January 3, 2014 Author #2 Share Posted January 3, 2014 Orbital Launch Rescheduled for Jan. 8 January 3, 2014 - 5:32 PM ESTThe International Space Station Program and Orbital Sciences Corporation have decided to postpone the launch of the Antares rocket and its Cygnus cargo craft on the first Orbital commercial resupply mission to the space station to no earlier than Wednesday, Jan. 8 due to the forecast of cold temperatures for Tuesday, Jan. 7 at the launch site at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Read more... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waspie_Dwarf Posted January 6, 2014 Author #3 Share Posted January 6, 2014 Orbital Rolls to Launch Pad at Wallops for Station Flight An Orbital Sciences Corporation Antares rolled out to launch Pad-0A at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, Sunday, January 5, 2014, in advance of a planned Wednesday, Jan. 8th, 1:32 p.m. EST launch. The Antares will launch a Cygnus spacecraft on a cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station. The Orbital-1 mission is Orbital Sciences' first contracted cargo delivery flight to the space station for NASA. Among the cargo aboard Cygnus set to launch to the space station are science experiments, crew provisions, spare parts and other hardware.Credit: NASASource: NASA - Multimedia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waspie_Dwarf Posted January 7, 2014 Author #4 Share Posted January 7, 2014 Orbital Managers "Go" for Wednedsay Launch, Weather Forecast 95 Percent Favorable January 7, 2014 - 1:50 PM ESTAt a Launch Readiness Review Monday, managers for Orbital Sciences Corp. of Dulles, Va., and NASA gave a “go" to proceed toward the Wednesday, Jan. 8, launch of the Orbital-1 cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station, pending the completion of remaining testing, data reviews and a Wallops Range Authority to Proceed. Orbital is targeting a 1:32 p.m. EST launch from Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Pad-0A at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in eastern Virginia. Read more... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waspie_Dwarf Posted January 8, 2014 Author #5 Share Posted January 8, 2014 Orb-1 Launch for Jan. 8 Has Been Scrubbed January 8, 2014 - 9:14 AM ESTEarly this morning, Orbital Sciences Corp. decided to scrub today's launch attempt of the Antares rocket and the Cygnus cargo spacecraft on the company's first resupply mission to the International Space Station due to an unusually high level of space radiation that exceeded constraints imposed on Antares. The solar flux activity that occurred late yesterday afternoon resulted in an increasing level of radiation beyond what the Antares engineering team monitored earlier in the day. Overnight, Orbital's engineers conducted an analysis of the radiation levels, but the Antares team decided to postpone the launch to further examine the potential effects of the space radiation on the rocket¹s avionics. The Cygnus spacecraft would not be affected by the solar event. Read more... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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