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Antares 230+ | Cygnus CRS-2 NG-16 (S.S. Ellison Onizuka)

August 10, 2021 at 10:01 PM UTC

Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA

Antares 230+ | Cygnus CRS-2 NG-16 (S.S. Ellison Onizuka) launch image
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August 10, 2021 at 10:01 PM UTC

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Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA · 37.8337, -75.4881

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Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA

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Mission description

This is the 16th planned flight of the Orbital ATK's uncrewed resupply spacecraft Cygnus and its 15th flight to the International Space Station under the Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA. This Cygnus spacecraft is named after American astronaut Ellison Onizuka who died in the destruction of the Space Shuttle Challenger.

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Vehicle

Antares 230+

Antares · 230+

Height

42.5 m

Diameter

3.9 m

LEO capacity

8,200 kg

Successful launches

8

Launch complex

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Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA

Wallops Flight Facility is a rocket launch site on Wallops Island on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, United States, just east of the Delmarva Peninsula and north-northeast of Norfolk. The facility is operated by the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and primarily serves to support science and exploration missions for NASA and other federal agencies. WFF includes an extensively instrumented range to support launches of more than a dozen types of sounding rockets; small expendable suborbital and orbital rockets; high-altitude balloon flights carrying scientific instruments for atmospheric and astronomical research; and, using its Research Airport, flight tests of aeronautical research aircraft, including uncrewed aerial vehicles.

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Mission updates

New launch time.

July 8, 2021 at 4:49 AM UTC · Cosmic_Penguin

Weather 80%

August 9, 2021 at 11:37 AM UTC · Nosu

Adjusting T-0

August 10, 2021 at 8:28 PM UTC · SwGustav