Launch index
Launch Successful

Antares 230+ | Cygnus CRS-2 NG-17 (S.S. Piers Sellers)

February 19, 2022 at 5:40 PM UTC

Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA

Antares 230+ | Cygnus CRS-2 NG-17 (S.S. Piers Sellers) launch image
Mission imagery · Antares 230+

Launch details

LAUNCH IN

T−00d00h00m00s

February 19, 2022 at 5:40 PM UTC

Status: Launch Successful · Live feed refreshes every 30 seconds

Launch Area 0 A

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

Open map
Launch site
Launch Area 0 A

Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA

Launch probability
75%
Window opens
February 19, 2022 at 5:40 PM UTC
Window closes
February 19, 2022 at 5:40 PM UTC
Feed updated
June 14, 2023 at 3:58 AM UTC

Mission description

This is the 17th flight of the Orbital ATK's uncrewed resupply spacecraft Cygnus and its 16th flight to the International Space Station under the Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA. This Cygnus spacecraft is named after American astronaut and climate scientist Piers Sellers. Sellers was a part of three Space Shuttle missions tasked with assembly of the International Space Station.

Vehicle

Antares 230+

Antares · 230+

Height

42.5 m

Diameter

3.9 m

LEO capacity

8,200 kg

Successful launches

8

Launch complex

Launch Area 0 A

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.

Open map

Official links

Mission updates

T-0 confirmed by NASA.

January 12, 2022 at 9:12 PM UTC · Jay

Weather 75%

February 18, 2022 at 4:49 PM UTC · Cosmic_Penguin

Adjusting T-0

February 19, 2022 at 3:51 PM UTC · SwGustav

Liftoff

February 19, 2022 at 5:40 PM UTC · Jay

Successful launch. Cygnus will arrive at the ISS on Monday morning.

February 19, 2022 at 5:51 PM UTC · Jay