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Cygnus NG-13
Mission typeISS resupply
OperatorNASA
COSPAR ID2020-011A Edit this at Wikidata
SATCAT no.45175Edit this on Wikidata
Spacecraft properties
SpacecraftS.S. Robert Lawrence Jr.
Spacecraft typeEnhanced Cygnus
ManufacturerNorthrop Grumman
Thales Alenia Space
Start of mission
Launch date9 February 2020 22:39:26 UTC (planned)[1]
RocketAntares 230+
Launch siteMARS LP-0A
ContractorNorthrop Grumman
Orbital parameters
Reference systemGeocentric
RegimeLow Earth
Inclination51.6 degrees
EpochPlanned
Berthing at ISS
Berthing portHarmony nadir or Unity nadir
RMS capture11 February 2020 (planned)
Berthing date11 February 2020 (planned)
Unberthing date11 May 2020 (planned)
RMS release11 May 2020 (planned)

Cygnus NG-13, previously known as CRS OA-13, is the fourteenth planned flight of the Northrop Grumman robotic resupply spacecraft Cygnus and its thirteenth flight to the International Space Station under the Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA.[2][3] The mission is scheduled to launch on 9 February 2020 at 5:39 PM EST.[1] This is the second launch of Cygnus under the CRS2 contract.[4]

Orbital ATK 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, then Orbital Sciences 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.[5] Northrop Grumman purchased Orbital in June 2018; its ATK division was renamed Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems.[6]

History

Cygnus NG-13 is the second Cygnus mission under the Commercial Resupply Services 2

Production and integration of Cygnus spacecraft is performed in Dulles, Virginia. The Cygnus service module is mated with the pressurized cargo module at the launch site, and mission operations are conducted from control centers in Dulles and Houston.[5]

Spacecraft

Main article: Cygnus (spacecraft)

Production and integration of Cygnus spacecraft is performed in Dulles, VA. The Cygnus service module is mated with the pressurized cargo module at the launch site, and mission operations are conducted from control centers in Dulles and Houston.[5] This is the eighth flight of the Enhanced-sized Cygnus PCM.[7]

This Cygnus spacecraft is named to honor Robert H. Lawrence.[8]

Manifest

Investigations studying tissue culturing, bone loss and phage therapy will be launching, along with more scientific experiments and supplies.

  • Mobile SpaceLab, a tissue and cell culturing facility that offers investigators a quick-turnaround platform to perform sophisticated microgravity biology experiments. This will be mounted in a designated EXPRESS rack on ISS.
  • Mochii, initial demonstration of a new miniature scanning electron microscope (SEM) with spectroscopy.
  • Spacecraft Fire Experiment-IV (Saffire-IV), fourth in this series.[9]

Total weight of cargo: 3,500–3,750 kg (7,720–8,270 lb).[10]

  • Crew supplies: 0 kg (0 lb)
  • Science investigations: 0 kg (0 lb)
  • Spacewalk equipment: 0 kg (0 lb)
  • Vehicle hardware: 0 kg (0 lb)
  • Computer resources: 0 kg (0 lb)
  • Russian hardware: 0 kg (0 lb)
  • Northrop Grumman-related equipment: 0 kg (0 lb)

References

  1. ^ a b Clark, Stephen (4 November 2019). "Launch schedule". Spaceflight Now. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
  2. ^ "Worldwide launch schedule". spaceflightnow.com. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
  3. ^ "International Space Station Flight Schedule". Students for the Exploration and Development of Space. 15 May 2013.
  4. ^ Gebhardt, Chris (1 June 2018). "Orbital ATK looks ahead to CRS2 Cygnus flights, Antares on the commercial market". NASASpaceFlight.com. Retrieved 2 June 2018.
  5. ^ a b c "Cygnus Fact Sheet" (PDF). Orbital ATK. 24 March 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 September 2015. Retrieved 14 August 2015.
  6. ^ Erwin, Sandra (5 June 2018). "Acquisition of Orbital ATK approved, company renamed Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems". SpaceNews. Retrieved 23 July 2018.
  7. ^ Leone, Dan (17 August 2015). "NASA Orders Two More ISS Cargo Missions From Orbital ATK". SpaceNews.com. Retrieved 17 August 2015.
  8. ^ Pearlman, Robert Z. "Northrop Grumman names Cygnus spacecraft for first African American astronaut". Space.com. Retrieved 23 January 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  9. ^ "New Research Launching to Station Aboard Northrop Grumman's 13th Resupply Mission". NASA. 29 January 2020.
  10. ^ "International Space Station Payload Opportunities on Cygnus" (PDF). Northrop Grumman. 2018. FS009_13_1.

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