![]() Canadarm2 grapples the S.S. Alan Poindexter. | |
Names | Orbital-5 (2008–2015) |
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Mission type | ISS logistics |
Operator | Orbital ATK |
COSPAR ID | 2016-062A |
SATCAT no. | 41818![]() |
Mission duration | 40 days, 23 hours, 51 minutes |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft | S.S. Alan Poindexter |
Spacecraft type | Enhanced Cygnus[1][2] |
Manufacturer |
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Launch mass | 6,172 kg (13,607 lb)[3] |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 17 October 2016, 23:45:36 UTC (7:45:36 pm EDT)[4] |
Rocket | Antares 230[5][6] |
Launch site | MARS, Pad 0A |
End of mission | |
Disposal | Deorbited |
Decay date | 27 November 2016, 23:36 UTC |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric |
Regime | Low Earth |
Inclination | 51.66° |
Berthing at ISS | |
Berthing port | Unity nadir[4] |
RMS capture | 23 October 2016, 11:28 UTC[7] |
Berthing date | 23 October 2016, 14:53 UTC[8] |
Unberthing date | 21 November 2016, 11:25 UTC[9] |
RMS release | 21 November 2016, 13:22 UTC[10][11] |
Time berthed | 28 days, 20 hours, 32 minutes |
Cargo | |
Mass | 2,425 kg (5,346 lb)[3] |
Pressurised | 2,342 kg (5,163 lb)[12] |
Unpressurised | 83 kg (183 lb)[12] |
![]() ![]() NASA (left) and Orbital ATK (right) insignias |
OA-5, previously known as Orbital-5, was the seventh planned flight of the Orbital Sciences' uncrewed resupply spacecraft Cygnus and its sixth flight to the International Space Station under the Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA.[13][14] The mission launched on 17 October 2016 at 23:45:36 UTC. Orbital Sciences 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 System (COTS) program, Orbital designed and built Antares, a medium-class launch vehicle; Cygnus, an advanced maneuvering spacecraft; and a Pressurized Cargo Module which is provided by Orbital's industrial partner Thales Alenia Space.[15]
The Cygnus spacecraft for this mission is named the S.S. Alan Poindexter in honor to astronaut Alan G. Poindexter, a deceased Space Shuttle commander.[16] Poindexter was selected in the 1998 NASA Group (G17) and went into orbit aboard Space Shuttle missions STS-122 and STS-131.
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