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Orbital ATKAntares 230Launch Area 0 A, Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA

Antares 230 | Cygnus CRS OA-5 (S.S. Alan Poindexter)

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October 17, 2016Add to calendar

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Image: NASA/Bill Ingalls

Orbital ATK's 1st launch · 1st this year · humanity's 5,593rd orbital launch attempt

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Cygnus CRS OA-5 (S.S. Alan Poindexter)

This is the seventh flight of the Orbital ATK's unmanned resupply spacecraft Cygnus and its sixth flight to the International Space Station under the Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA. Orbital ATK named the vehicle after astronaut Alan Poindexter who was the commander of STS-131.

Resupply · Low Earth Orbit (LEO)

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