New Target Dates Set for Orbital ATK Resupply Launch from Virginia

File Photo of Antares Launch
Antares rocket launches from Wallops Island in 2014. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls

Orbital ATK is targeting no earlier than Oct. 9-13, 2016, for the launch of its Cygnus spacecraft on an Antares rocket from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport’s Pad-0A at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Virginia, carrying cargo to the International Space Station. A more specific date will be identified after completion of final operational milestones and technical reviews. Launch times range from 10:47 p.m. EDT Sunday, Oct. 9, to 9:13 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 13.

This will be the sixth planned cargo resupply mission by Orbital ATK under NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services contract with the company and the fourth launch from Virginia. Cargo resupply by U.S. companies enables a national capability to deliver critical science research to the space station, significantly increasing NASA’s ability to conduct new science investigations aboard the world’s only microgravity laboratory.

Get more information about Orbital ATK, its Antares rocket and the Cygnus cargo spacecraft at:

https://www.nasa.gov/orbital

For more information about the International Space Station, visit:

https://www.nasa.gov/station

3 thoughts on “New Target Dates Set for Orbital ATK Resupply Launch from Virginia”

  1. I really want to join NASA but i don’t have money to go abroad and study. Going into space with zero gravity is a fun along with thrill and fear. Feeling that u r in center f different stars and planets must be giving goose bumps.

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