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

Name: Antares 230 | Cygnus CRS OA-5 (S.S. Alan Poindexter)
Start: 2016-10-17T23:45:36.000Z
Location: Launch Area 0 A, Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA

Orbital ATK · Antares 230 · Launch Area 0 A, Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA

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

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

Window: Oct 17, 23:40 – Oct 17, 23:47 UTC

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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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Antares OA5 Launch from NASA Wallops Flight Facility — VAXHeadroom
Antares / Cygnus OA-5 Rocket Launch, Return To Flight From Wallops Flight Facility — Matthew Travis
Orbital ATK Launches to ISS from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility — NASA

Pad — Launch Area 0 A

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

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