Cygnus NG-17

NG-17
Antares 230+ launches with NG-17 spacecraft onboard
NamesOA-17 (2016–2018)
Mission typeISS resupply
OperatorNorthrop Grumman
COSPAR ID2022-015A Edit this at Wikidata
SATCAT no.51712Edit this on Wikidata
Mission duration119 days, 13 hours, 14 minutes
Spacecraft properties
SpacecraftS.S. Piers Sellers
Spacecraft typeEnhanced Cygnus
Manufacturer
Launch mass.
Start of mission
Launch date19 February 2022, 17:40:03 UTC[1]
RocketAntares 230+
Launch siteWallops, Pad 0A
ContractorNorthrop Grumman
End of mission
DisposalDeorbited
Decay date29 June 2022, 06:55 UTC
Orbital parameters
Reference systemGeocentric orbit
RegimeLow Earth orbit
Inclination51.66°
Berthing at International Space Station
Berthing portUnity nadir
RMS capture21 February 2022, 09:44 UTC
Berthing date21 February 2022, 12:02 UTC
Unberthing date28 June 2022, 07:00 UTC
RMS release28 June 2022, 11:07 UTC
Time berthed127 days

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NG-17,[2] previously known as OA-17, was the seventeenth flight of the Northrop Grumman robotic resupply spacecraft Cygnus and its sixteenth flight to the International Space Station (ISS) under the Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) contract with NASA. The mission launched on 19 February 2022 at 17:40:03 UTC.[1] It was the sixth launch of Cygnus under the CRS-2 contract.[3][4]

Orbital ATK’s space division (now part of Northrop Grumman Space Systems) 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 Services (COTS) program, Orbital ATK designed, acquired, built, and assembled these components: Antares, a medium-class launch vehicle; Cygnus, an advanced spacecraft using a Pressurized Cargo Module (PCM) provided by industrial partner Thales Alenia Space and a Service Module based on the Orbital GEOStar satellite bus.[5]

  1. ^ a b "NASA Invites Media to Northrop Grumman's February Launch from Virginia". NASA (Press release). 12 January 2022. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference ng17-mission was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference ng2018-news was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference sfn-20201001 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference ngcygnus-fs2020 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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