Pre-launch Activities Complete for Supply Mission to ISS

Pre-launch Activ­i­ties Com­plete for Sup­ply Mis­sion to ISS



NASA,Orbital Sciences,Antares,Cygnus,ISS,Orbital‑2,Wallops



Orbital Sci­ences Cor­po­ra­tion has com­plet­ed pre-launch pro­cess­ing and roll­out of its Antares rock­et and Cygnus car­go craft at Wal­lops Flight Facil­i­ty. Launch oppor­tu­ni­ties for the Orbital‑2 mis­sion to the Inter­na­tion­al Space Sta­tion begin July 12. Orb‑2 is the com­pa­ny’s sec­ond oper­a­tional resup­ply mis­sion to the ISS under its Com­mer­cial Resup­ply Ser­vices con­tract with NASA. The Cygnus space­craft is deliv­er­ing almost 33-hun­dred pounds of car­go, includ­ing sci­ence exper­i­ments to expand the research capa­bil­i­ty of the Expe­di­tion 40 crew onboard the station.



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