Antares 230+ | Cygnus CRS-2 NG-15 (S.S. Katherine Johnson)

Name: Antares 230+ | Cygnus CRS-2 NG-15 (S.S. Katherine Johnson)
Start: 2021-02-20T17:36:49.000Z
Location: Launch Area 0 A, Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA

Cygnus CRS-2 NG-15 (S.S. Katherine Johnson) Patch

Northrop Grumman Space Systems · Antares 230+ · Launch Area 0 A, Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA

Northrop Grumman Space Systems's 8th launch · 1st this year · humanity's 6,051st orbital launch attempt

T− --:--:--February 20, 2021 · 17:36 UTCAdd to calendar

Success75% go

The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).

Window: Feb 20, 17:36 – Feb 20, 17:41 UTC

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Cygnus CRS-2 NG-15 (S.S. Katherine Johnson)

This is the 15th planned flight of the Orbital ATK's uncrewed resupply spacecraft Cygnus and its 14th flight to the International Space Station under the Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA. This Cygnus spacecraft carries the name of American mathematician Katherine Johnson, whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S. crewed spaceflights.

Resupply · Low Earth Orbit (LEO)

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Updates

Weather 75% GO
Nosu · 2/19/2021 · source
Updating spacecraft's name to S.S. Katherine Johnson
SwGustav · 2/7/2021 · source
Setting the launch go
SwGustav · 2/7/2021 · source
Correcting T-0
spacevogel · 12/15/2020 · source
spacevogel · 12/15/2020 · source

Pad — Launch Area 0 A

Local pad time: Feb 20, 12:36 PM EST

19 launches from this pad · 87 from Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA

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