Cygnus NG-12 (CRS-12), ELaNa 25A, +... – Antares-230+ – MARS LP-0A – 02.11.2019, 13:59:47 UTC

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 Jeff Foust‏ @jeff_foust 2 мин. назад

Antares liftoff as seen from the press site. #NG12

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 William Harwood‏ @cbs_spacenews 5 мин. назад

Antares/NG12: Cygnus separation confirmed; orbit is spot on; solar array deploy expected around 12:53pm EDT (L+2h53m)

16:53 UTC / 19:53 ДМВ

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https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2019/11/02/u-s-cygnus-cargo-ship-reaches-orbit-for-monday-delivery/

U.S. Cygnus Cargo Ship Reaches Orbit for Monday Delivery

Mark Garcia
Posted Nov 2, 2019 at 10:12 am


The Antares rocket lifts off on time from Virginia carrying the Cygnus cargo craft to orbit. Credit: NASA TV

On the anniversary of the arrival of the first crew members to live aboard the International Space Station, Northrop Grumman's Cygnus resupply spacecraft is on its way to the station with nearly 8,200 pounds of science investigations and cargo after launching at 9:59 a.m. EDT Saturday, Nov. 2 from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. At the time of lift off, the International Space Station was traveling over the south Atlantic southwest of Cape Town, South Africa, at an altitude of 257 statute miles.

The spacecraft launched on an Antares 230+ rocket from the Virginia Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport's Pad 0A at Wallops. Automated command to initiate solar array deploy will begin about 2 hours and 53 minutes after launch (about 12:53 p.m.). Solar array deployment will take about 30 minutes. Confirmation of solar deployment will be shared on the launch blog and social media at @NASA_Wallops and @space_station.

Cygnus is scheduled to arrive at the orbiting laboratory around 4:10 a.m. Monday, Nov. 4. Coverage of the spacecraft's approach and arrival will begin at 2:45 a.m. on NASA Television and the agency's website. Expedition 61 astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch of NASA will use the space station's robotic arm to capture Cygnus, while NASA's Andrew Morgan monitors telemetry. The spacecraft is scheduled to stay at the space station until January.

The Cygnus spacecraft for this space station resupply mission is named in honor of NASA astronaut Alan Bean. The late Apollo 12 astronaut flew to the Moon on Apollo 12 and became the fourth human to walk on the lunar surface. This is Northrop Grumman's 12th cargo flight to the space station, and the first under its Commercial Resupply Services 2 contract with NASA, will support dozens of new and existing investigations.

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В понедельник, 4 ноября



07:45 UTC / 10:45 ДМВ

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NG-12: Antares 230+ launches S.S. Alan Bean Cygnus

 SciNews

2 нояб. 2019 г.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/7EP-ZfmYWno (8:49)

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Northrop Grumman NG-12 Resupply Launch to International Space Station

 NASA

Трансляция началась 84 минуты назад

https://www.youtube.com/embed/yWZKQ73aGrg (59:35)

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 Trevor Mahlmann‏ @TrevorMahlmann 27 мин. назад

Long exposure view of @northropgrumman #NG12 lifting off from @NASA_Wallops Pad 0-A! The wind blew a plant into the frame at the last second but I am SO happy with how this turned out!

Follow/stay tuned for video and my remote camera views!!

//: https://www.tmahlmann.com/photos/Rockets/Northrop-Grumman/Northrop-Grumman-NG-12/i-Rrd9qrM/ ...

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 John Kraus  :f09f9a80:‏ @johnkrausphotos 23 мин. назад

Liftoff of Northrop Grumman's Antares rocket, launching at 9:59 a.m. with 8,200 pounds of supplies and science headed to the International Space Station.



My gallery will be updated throughout the day here: http://www.johnkrausphotos.com/Launch-Galleries/Antares-NG-12 ...

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 Brady Kenniston‏ @TheFavoritist 35 мин. назад

Liftoff if the @northropgrumman NG-12 mission carrying science and supplies to the International Space Station!

What an amazing morning for launch!

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РН «Антарес», головним розробником якої є американська корпорація Northrop Grumman, вивела на орбіту вантажний корабель «Сігнус», який повинен доставити на Міжнародну космічну станцію близько 3 750 кг корисного вантажу на замовлення NASA – провізію та речі для екіпажу, матеріали для наукових досліджень, обладнання для магнітного альфа-спектрометра, устаткування для станції та виходу у відкритий космос, комп'ютери та комплектуючі. Також на борту корабля знаходяться кубсати, частину яких буде запущено з МКС, а частину з самого «Сігнуса» після того, як він покине станцію. Стикування з МКС заплановано на 4 листопада.

Свій космічний корабель Cygnus NG-12 S.S. Alan Bean корпорація Northrop Grumman назвала на честь Алана Лаверна Біна (1932-2018) – четвертого астронавта, що ступив на поверхню Місяця. Це вже дев'ятий політ версії вантажівки підвищеної місткості (Enhanced).

:f09f87ba::f09f87a6: Основну конструкцію першого ступеня PH «Антарес» розробило ДП «КБ «Південне» та виготовило ДП ВО ПМЗ у кооперації з українськими підприємствами «Хартрон-АРКОС» (Харків), «Київприлад» (Київ), «Хартрон-ЮКОМ» (Запоріжжя), «ЧЕЗАРА», «РАПІД» (Чернігів) та iн.

Підготовка PH «Антарес» до пуску, її випробування i пуск виконані за участю українських фахівців, які у повному обсязі забезпечили виконання вcix операцій у своєму секторі відповідальності. Згідно з контрактом технічна підтримка пуску, приймання та обробка телеметричної інформації у режимі реального часу здійснювались з території КБ «Південне».

NG-12 – перша місія в рамках контракту CRS-2 (Commercial Resupply Services) компанії Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems з NASA з доставки вантажів на МКС. Контракт укладено як мінімум до 2024 року і він передбачає щонайменше ще п'ять місій з доставки приблизно 20 т корисного вантажу на МКС. До цього діяв контракт CRS, за яким з 2014 року було доставлено до МКС 10 кораблів «Сігнус», 7 з яких – за допомогою РН «Антарес».

Всього з 2013 року ракета-носій «Антарес» стартувала 11 разів, 10 з яких – успішно.

У рамках програми «Антарес» українська сторона виконала увесь комплекс робіт з проектування, відпрацювання та виготовлення матеріальної частини основної конструкції першого ступеня для PH, замовленої Національним кocмiчним агентством США.

Нагадаємо, що нещодавно делегація ДП «КБ «Південне» на чолі з Генеральним директором Олександром Дегтяревим здійснила робочу поїздку до Центру космічних польотів на острові Воллопс. Українські фахівці відвідали монтажно-випробувальний корпус та стартовий комплекс з метою перевірки стану робіт і переконалися у готовності РН «Антарес» до пуску: https://bit.ly/2WCoMt0

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 Michael Baylor‏ @nextspaceflight 44 мин. назад

Antares launches the NG-12 mission to resupply the International Space Station.
#NG12 #Antares #Cygnus

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 NASA HQ PHOTO @nasahqphoto 48 мин. назад

Launch of @northropgrumman's Antares with the #Cygnus cargo spacecraft onboard full of science and supplies to the crew living and working on the @Space_Station from @NASA_Wallops
More coming soon!
https://flic.kr/s/aHsmJ2dyb3

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https://spacenews.com/antares-launches-cygnus-cargo-spacecraft-on-first-crs-2-mission/

Antares launches Cygnus cargo spacecraft on first CRS-2 mission
by Jeff Foust — November 2, 2019


A Northrop Grumman Antares rocket lifts off Nov. 2, placing a Cygnus cargo spacecraft into orbit bound for the International Space Station. Credit: SpaceNews/Jeff Foust

WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. — A Northrop Grumman Antares rocket successfully launched a Cygnus cargo spacecraft on a mission to the International Space Station Nov. 2, kicking off a new era in cargo delivery for the station.

The Antares 230+ rocket lifted off fr om Pad 0-A at the Mid Atlantic Regional Spaceport here at 9:59 a.m. Eastern. The Cygnus spacecraft, named by Northrop Grumman the S.S. Alan Bean after the late Apollo-era astronaut, separated from the rocket's upper stage about eight and a half minutes later.

The Cygnus is scheduled to arrive at the ISS Nov. 4, grappled by the station's robotic arm at around 4:10 a.m. Eastern and berthed to the station later that morning. It will remain on the station until January.

The mission, designated NG-12, is the first mission under the new Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) 2 contract, a follow-on to the original CRS contracts awarded in 2008 to Orbital Sciences Corporation (now Northrop Grumman) and SpaceX to transport cargo to and from the station. Northrop is introducing new capabilities to both Antares and Cygnus to meet the requirements of the CRS-2 contract.

"CRS-2 I would describe as more of a step-function change in the capability" of the system, said Frank DeMauro, vice president and general manager of Space Systems at Northrop Grumman, during a prelaunch briefing at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility here Nov. 1.

One change is the ability to carry more cargo. The Cygnus is loaded with 3,705 kilograms of cargo, more than any previous mission. The spacecraft can now carry 10 middeck lockers filled with payloads, compared to six on the previous Cygnus mission in April. The spacecraft also has improved power and telemetry capabilities for those payloads, allowing researchers to maintain contact with them during the two-day journey to the station.

On the previous Cygnus mission, Northrop introduced a "late load" cargo capability, allowing time-sensitive cargo, such as biological experiments, to be loaded onto the spacecraft within 24 hours of launch. A similar late-load capability was already available on SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft.

The NG-12 mission means that, for the first time, two Cygnus spacecraft are in orbit at the same time. The Cygnus from the NG-11 mission, which departed the station in early August, remains in orbit to demonstrate the ability of the spacecraft to perform a long-duration free-flying mission. "That is continuing extremely successfully," DeMauro said.

With the launch of the NG-12 Cygnus controllers will test their ability to operate two spacecraft simultaneously. "We think that is a key capability for NASA or other government agencies or commercial industries," he said.

DeMauro said Northrop will start planning the end of the NG-11 mission after the NG-12 Cygnus arrives at the ISS. "We haven't set a deadline for when we'll bring it back," he said of the NG-11 Cygnus. "I don't expect it to be that much after NG-12 on orbit."

Increased cargo, and increased mass of the Cygnus itself, required improvements to the Antares launch vehicle. This launch marked the debut of the Antares 230+, a version of the Antares with changes such as increased structural strength of the first stage. That eliminates what Kurt Eberly, Antares vice president at Northrop Grumman, called the "throttle notch" wh ere the rocket's RD-181 first stage engines throttled down during maximum dynamic pressure. Instead, the engines remain at 100% thrust throughout their nearly 200-second burn. That change, along with others to reduce the mass of the vehicle and to deploy the Cygnus in a slightly lower orbit, increase the vehicle's payload capacity by about 800 kilograms.

Eberly said that this version of the Antares is being "on-ramped" to the NASA Launch Services 2 contract, making it eligible for launching NASA science missions as well. "It allows us to be more competitive and lift heavier payloads and address more market going forward," he said. The CRS contracts have been, to date, the only customers for the medium-lift rocket.

Cygnus payload: cubesats, cookies and cosmic rays

The payload on the NG-12 Cygnus mission includes nearly 2,000 kilograms of science investigations. They span the usual gamut of science and technology demonstration payloads, from biological research to materials science.

Included on the Cygnus is the AstroRad Vest, developed by Israeli company StemRad and Lockheed Martin. Astronauts will wear the vest to test its performance in shielding them from radiation from solar storms. The suit is customized to provide "selective shielding" for key organs, said Oren Milstein, co-founder and chief scientific officer of StemRad, and its high-density polyethylene material can provide the same level of shielding as a much heavier storm shelter inside a spacecraft.

Another payload is an oven developed by Nanoracks and Zero Gravity Kitchen to test the ability to bake foods in space. The first use of the small oven will be to bake cookies in a partnership with hotel chain Doubletree.

While the experiment may sound trivial, the companies see it as a pathfinder for future human activities in space, such as commercial space stations or long-duration missions beyond Earth. "What are we going to need for those people to have a good experience?" said Mary Murphy, senior internal payloads manager at Nanoracks. Something as simple as baking in space, she said, "can make people have a comfortable experience for a long-duration spaceflight opportunity."

Several cubesats are on the Cygnus for later deployment. Two of them are for the National Reconnaissance Office as part of a program called IMPACT to perform in-space validation of 14 technologies for potential later use on operational NRO missions.

The cubesats use a standardized interface as part of an unclassified initiative called the Greenlighting program to allow experiments to easily be added to the cubesats, said Maj. Michael Felten of the NRO in a Nov. 2 interview. One example is testing of a microprocessor originally designed for the oil and gas industry to see if it can also be used in space applications.

"We use the results from the R&D as far as the performance in space and the survivability and the degradation of those components to influence the selection of new technologies into our future operational systems," he said. "It allows us to pick the newest and the most capable components for our future collection capabilities."

Also on the Cygnus is hardware to perform repairs of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) instrument outside the station. That experiment, mounted on the station in 2011 for an initial three-year mission to measure high-energy cosmic rays, continues to operate today but its cooling system is failing.

The Cygnus is bringing a new cooling system and special tools that astronauts Andrew Morgan and Luca Parmitano will use in a series of five spacewalks to repair the AMS. Kirk Shireman, NASA ISS program manager, said at the prelaunch briefing that those spacewalks would likely begin in mid-November. A separate set of spacewalks to replace batteries in the station's power system, interrupted by a failed battery charging unit last month, will resume after the AMS spacewalks.

A repaired AMS could operate through the 2020s, pending decisions by the ISS partners to extend station operations past its current deadline of 2024. Sam Ting, the Nobel laureate physicist who is the principal investigator for AMS, says the extended mission will allow it to address issues ranging from the abundance of antimatter to confirming one model for dark matter.

"AMS will continue to collect and analyze data for the lifetime of the space station, because whenever precision instruments such as AMS are used to explore the unknown, new and exciting discoveries can be expected," he said.

The NG-12 launch is part of a busy period of activity on the station. A Japanese HTV-8 cargo vehicle, launched in September, departed the station Nov. 1. Both a Russian Progress cargo spacecraft and a SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft are scheduled to fly to the ISS in early December.

Two other companies have CRS-2 cargo contracts with NASA. SpaceX will transition to its CRS-2 contract, using a cargo version of its Crew Dragon spacecraft, in 2020. Sierra Nevada Corporation will start flying its Dream Chaser cargo spacecraft under development to the ISS in late 2021. All three CRS-2 contracts include a minimum of six missions per company through 2024.

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 Jonathan McDowell‏ @planet4589 58 мин. назад

As well as 6 cubesats in the NRCSD-17 deployer and 6 cubesats in the external NRCSD-E deployer, Cygnus carries the USAF Space Test Program's STPSat-4, which will use the SSIKLOPS deployer. The previous sats using this deployer (AggieSat4, SpinSat) were both about 50 kg

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https://www.interfax.ru/world/682782

17:05, 2 ноября 2019
К МКС отправился американский грузовой космический корабль Cygnus

Москва. 2 ноября. INTERFAX.RU - Американская ракета-носитель Antares с грузовым космическим кораблем Cygnus в субботу стартовала к Международной космической станции (МКС), сообщило Национальное управление США по аэронавтике и исследованию космического пространства (НАСА).

Запуск был осуществлен в 9:59 по восточному времени США (16:59 по Москве) с космодрома НАСА Уоллопс, который размещается на одноименном острове у атлантического побережья американского штата Вирджиния.

Стыковка корабля Cygnus с МКС запланирована на 4 ноября. Она будет осуществляться путем захвата сблизившегося со станцией "грузовика" дистанционной рукой-манипулятором Canadarm-2 и последующим присоединением его к американскому модулю Unity.

Запуск осуществляется в рамках коммерческого контракта НАСА с корпорацией Northrop Grumman, которой принадлежит ракета-носитель и автоматический грузовой космический корабль.

Cygnus должен будет доставить на МКС около 3,7 тонн груза, в том числе продовольствие, а также оборудование и материалы для проведения десятков научных исследований.

Это уже 12-й полет космического "грузовика" корпорации Northrop Grumman к МКС. Был также еще один неудачный запуск в 2014 году, когда корабль не долетел до станции вследствие аварии ракеты-носителя Antares. Первый успешный запуск Cygnus состоялся 18 сентября 2013 года.

https://tass.ru/kosmos/7074426

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Американский корабль Cygnus с грузом для экипажа МКС стартовал с космодрома в США
Стыковка корабля с МКС запланирована на 4 ноября

ВАШИНГТОН, 2 ноября. /ТАСС/. Ракета-носитель Antares с грузовым кораблем Cygnus, который доставит груз на Международную космическую станцию (МКС), успешно стартовала с космодрома на острове Уоллопс (штат Вирджиния) в Атлантическом океане. Об этом в субботу сообщило Национальное управление США по аэронавтике и исследованию космического пространства (NASA).

Ракета Antares была запущена в 09:59 (16:59 мск). Направляющийся к МКС корабль Cygnus, построенный корпорацией Northrop Grumman, доставит около 3,7 т груза - продовольствие, предметы первой необходимости, оборудование для станции и приборы для научных экспериментов. Стыковка корабля с МКС запланирована на 4 ноября.

В частности, экипаж МКС получит спецжилет для защиты от космической радиации AstroRad Vest, который впоследствии планируется использовать во время миссий на Луну и Марс. Кроме того, на станцию отправляется экспериментальный духовой шкаф Zero-G Oven, с помощью которого можно приготовить пищу в условиях невесомости. Температура приготовления в устройстве, которое по форме немного напоминает тостер, может доходить до 363,3 градуса Цельсия. Экипаж МКС также получит специальный прибор для переработки изготовленных в космосе на 3D-принтерах изделий. Данное устройство позволит получать из них материал, который можно повторно использовать в 3D-принтерах.

NASA планировало еще 21 октября отправить к МКС Cygnus, однако специалисты управления решили отложить запуск в связи с тем, что японский беспилотный космический корабль "Конотори-8" на тот момент еще не покинул станцию.

[Александр Репной]

Мужики, вы бы хоть исправили название темы, а то выходит какая-то путаница. Указан пуск 21.10.2010. Я уже подумал, почему постоянно старая тема висит 2010 года.

[Александр Репной]

Стыковка  с МКС 4 ноября, а во сколько? Кстати, ступень от лебедя не затопили ещё?