Orbital ATKAntares 230Launch Area 0 A, Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA
Cygnus CRS OA-5 (S.S. Alan Poindexter)
Launched
October 17, 2016
Image: NASA/Bill Ingalls
Summary
Cygnus CRS OA-5 (S.S. Alan Poindexter) launched on an Orbital ATK Antares 230 from Launch Area 0 A, Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA on October 17, 2016. It was Orbital ATK's 1st launch, 1st this year and humanity's 5,593rd orbital launch attempt. It was the 1st Antares 230 flight. The payload was bound for low Earth orbit (LEO). SS Alan Poindexter, one of 6 catalogued objects, reached a 217 × 359 km orbit inclined 51.6°. The spacecraft was Cygnus CRS OA-5. 6 objects from this launch are catalogued, 5 of them payloads.
- Watch
- Booster
- No booster details on record.
- Mission
- Resupply · Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
- Milestone
- 1st Antares 230 flightOrbital ATK's 1st launch1st this yearhumanity's 5,593rd orbital launch attempt64th orbital launch attempt this year
Spacecraft
Cygnus CRS OA-5
Cygnus CRS OA-5, also known as Orbital Sciences CRS Flight 5, was the seventh planned flight of the Orbital Sciences' unmanned resupply spacecraft Cygnus and its sixth flight to the International Space Station under the Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA. Orbital and NASA jointly developed a new space transportation system to provide commercial cargo resupply services to the International Space Station (ISS). Under the Commercial Orbital Transportation System (COTS) program, Orbital designed and built Antares, a medium-class launch vehicle; Cygnus, an advanced maneuvering spacecraft; and a Pressurized Cargo Module which is provided by Orbital's industrial partner Thales Alenia Space. The Cygnus spacecraft for this mission is named the S.S. Alan Poindexter in honor to astronaut Alan G. Poindexter, a deceased space shuttle commander. Poindexter was selected in the 1998 NASA Group (G17) and went into orbit aboard Space Shuttle missions STS-122 and STS-131.
- Destination: International Space Station
- Mission length: 40 days
- Docked October 23, 2016 at Unity nadir
The Cygnus spacecraft burned up as planned upon entering Earth's atmosphere.
Flight preview
Orbit: as tracked
SS Alan Poindexter · NORAD 41818 · 2016-062 · Space-Track · tracking 1 of 6 objects
Show the numbers for orbit elements
- Object
- TBA - TO BE ASSIGNED
- Object ID
- 2016-062A
- Epoch
- 2016-10-18 01:14:53 UTC
- Mean motion
- 15.97650958 rev/day
- Eccentricity
- 0.0106558
- Inclination
- 51.6083°
- Ascending node
- 165.7303°
- Arg. of perigee
- 152.9424°
- Mean anomaly
- 316.221°
- Element set
- 999
- Rev at epoch
- 0
- B*
- 0
Perigee, apogee and period are Kepler figures from the catalogued mean elements, not a propagated state. Published orbit: LEO. Ascent drawn from padside's representative profile.
Catalogued objects
6 catalogued: 5 payloads, 1 rocket stage
- SS Alan Poindexter · NORAD 41818
- Lemur-2-Xiaoqing · NORAD 41871 · re-entered April 10, 2023
- Lemur-2-Sokolsky · NORAD 41872 · re-entered April 8, 2023
- Lemur-2-Anubhavthakur · NORAD 41873 · re-entered July 18, 2024
- Lemur-2-Wingo · NORAD 41874 · re-entered April 25, 2023
Antares A-6 Stage 2 · re-entered November 6, 2016
Data from J. McDowell, planet4589.org
About this launch
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.
Pad
Launch Area 0 A, Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA
7th launch from Launch Area 0 A, 1st this year · 60th from Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA
19 launches from this pad · 87 from Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA
720 days after the previous launch from this pad
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Questions
When did Cygnus CRS OA-5 (S.S. Alan Poindexter) launch?
Cygnus CRS OA-5 (S.S. Alan Poindexter) launched on October 17, 2016. The time is known to the hour, not the minute.
Where can I watch Cygnus CRS OA-5 (S.S. Alan Poindexter)?
Coverage: Antares OA5 Launch from NASA Wallops Flight Facility; Antares / Cygnus OA-5 Rocket Launch, Return To Flight From Wallops Flight Facility; Orbital ATK Launches to ISS from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility. Watch the replay
What rocket launched Cygnus CRS OA-5 (S.S. Alan Poindexter)?
Antares 230, flown by Orbital ATK. Antares 230 spec sheet
Where did Cygnus CRS OA-5 (S.S. Alan Poindexter) launch from?
Launch Area 0 A, Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA.
What orbit did Cygnus CRS OA-5 (S.S. Alan Poindexter) reach?
SS Alan Poindexter, one of 6 catalogued objects, reached a 217 × 359 km orbit inclined 51.6°.
How many satellites did Cygnus CRS OA-5 (S.S. Alan Poindexter) launch?
5 payloads from this launch are catalogued (Data from J. McDowell, planet4589.org).
Which program is Cygnus CRS OA-5 (S.S. Alan Poindexter) part of?
Commercial Resupply Services and International Space Station. About Commercial Resupply Services