Orbital ATKAntares 230Launch Area 0 A, Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA
Cygnus CRS OA-8 (S.S. Gene Cernan)
Launched
November 12, 2017
Image: NASA/Bill Ingalls
Summary
Cygnus CRS OA-8 (S.S. Gene Cernan) launched on an Orbital ATK Antares 230 from Launch Area 0 A, Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA on November 12, 2017. It was Orbital ATK's 5th launch, 3rd this year and humanity's 5,690th orbital launch attempt. It was the 2nd Antares 230 flight and the 1st this year. The payload was bound for low Earth orbit (LEO). SS Gene Cernan, one of 20 catalogued objects, reached a 210 × 306 km orbit inclined 51.6°. The spacecraft was Cygnus CRS OA-8E. 20 objects from this launch are catalogued, 17 of them payloads.
- Watch
- Booster
- No booster details on record.
- Mission
- Resupply · Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
- Milestone
- 2nd Antares 230 flight · 1st this yearOrbital ATK's 5th launch3rd this yearhumanity's 5,690th orbital launch attempt75th orbital launch attempt this year
Spacecraft
Cygnus CRS OA-8E
Cygnus CRS OA-8E, also known as Orbital ATK CRS-8E, was the ninth flight of the Orbital ATK unmanned resupply spacecraft Cygnus and its eighth 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, then Orbital Sciences 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.
- Destination: International Space Station
- Mission length: 36 days
- Docked November 14, 2017 at Unity nadir
The Cygnus spacecraft burned up as planned upon entering Earth's atmosphere.
Flight preview
Orbit: as tracked
SS Gene Cernan · NORAD 43006 · 2017-071 · Space-Track · tracking 1 of 20 objects
Show the numbers for orbit elements
- Object
- TBA - TO BE ASSIGNED
- Object ID
- 2017-071A
- Epoch
- 2017-11-12 13:21:38 UTC
- Mean motion
- 16.08438026 rev/day
- Eccentricity
- 0.0072091
- Inclination
- 51.6126°
- Ascending node
- 19.2328°
- Arg. of perigee
- 149.6237°
- Mean anomaly
- 210.9029°
- 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
20 catalogued: 17 payloads, 1 rocket stage, 2 components
- SS Gene Cernan · NORAD 43006
- EcAMSat · NORAD 43019
- TechEdSat-6 · NORAD 43026
- Lemur-2-RocketJonah · NORAD 43041 · re-entered February 14, 2022
- Aerocube 7B · NORAD 43042 · re-entered August 6, 2022
- Aerocube 7C · NORAD 43043 · re-entered August 12, 2022
- CHEFsat · NORAD 43044 · re-entered January 2, 2022
- Lemur-2-YongLin · NORAD 43045 · re-entered January 29, 2022
- Lemur-2-Kevin · NORAD 43046 · re-entered March 22, 2022
- Lemur-2-BrianDavie · NORAD 43047 · re-entered February 12, 2022
- Lemur-2-RomaCoste · NORAD 43048 · re-entered February 28, 2022
- Asgardia 1 · NORAD 43049 · re-entered September 12, 2022
Show 5 more payloads
- ISARA · NORAD 43050 · re-entered February 23, 2022
- Lemur-2-McCullagh · NORAD 43051 · re-entered February 15, 2022
- PropCube Fauna · NORAD 43052 · re-entered July 30, 2022
- Lemur-2-Dunlop · NORAD 43053 · re-entered March 17, 2022
- Lemur-2-Liu-Poh-Chun · NORAD 43054 · re-entered March 9, 2022
Antares A-7 Stage 2 · re-entered November 25, 2017
Data from J. McDowell, planet4589.org
About this launch
This is the ninth planned flight of the Orbital ATK's unmanned resupply spacecraft Cygnus and its eighth flight to the International Space Station under the Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA.
Pad
Launch Area 0 A, Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA
8th launch from Launch Area 0 A, 1st this year · 61st from Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA
19 launches from this pad · 87 from Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA
390 days after the previous launch from this pad
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Questions
When did Cygnus CRS OA-8 (S.S. Gene Cernan) launch?
Cygnus CRS OA-8 (S.S. Gene Cernan) launched on November 12, 2017. The time is known to the hour, not the minute.
Where can I watch Cygnus CRS OA-8 (S.S. Gene Cernan)?
Coverage: Liftoff through spacecraft separation of the Antares OA8 mission; U.S. Commercial Cargo Spaceship Heads to the International Space Station. Watch the replay
What rocket launched Cygnus CRS OA-8 (S.S. Gene Cernan)?
Antares 230, flown by Orbital ATK. Antares 230 spec sheet
Where did Cygnus CRS OA-8 (S.S. Gene Cernan) launch from?
Launch Area 0 A, Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA.
What orbit did Cygnus CRS OA-8 (S.S. Gene Cernan) reach?
SS Gene Cernan, one of 20 catalogued objects, reached a 210 × 306 km orbit inclined 51.6°.
How many satellites did Cygnus CRS OA-8 (S.S. Gene Cernan) launch?
17 payloads from this launch are catalogued (Data from J. McDowell, planet4589.org).
Which program is Cygnus CRS OA-8 (S.S. Gene Cernan) part of?
Commercial Resupply Services and International Space Station. About Commercial Resupply Services