Cygnus Rendezvous Complete
Updated Cygnus Rendezvous Date, NASA TV Coverage for Orbital Sciences’ Demonstration Mission to International Space Station, NASA
“NASA and its International Space Station partners have approved a Sunday, Sept. 29, target arrival of Orbital Sciences’ Cygnus spacecraft on its demonstration cargo resupply mission to the space station. NASA Television coverage of the rendezvous will begin at 4:30 a.m. EDT and will continue through the capture and installation of the Cygnus spacecraft.”
Update: Cynus completed its rendezvous this morning and was berthed by the stations Canadarm2 at 8:44 am EDT.
– Statements on Berthing of Orbital Cygnus Spacecraft to the International Space Station, NASA
– NASA Partner Orbital Sciences Completes First Flight to Space Station as Astronauts Capture Cygnus Spacecraft, NASA
– Orbital’s Cygnus Spacecraft Successfully Berths With The International Space Station, Orbital
– The Commercial Spaceflight Federation Congratulates NASA and Commercial Industry Partners on Successful Berth with the International Space Station, Commercial Spaceflight Federation
Congratulations to Orbital! Great to have two different domestic paths for cargo to the ISS.
Congratulation to Orbital for a successful mission and developing both the Cygnus and Antares rocket.
It’s good to see Cygnus finally flying and doing the job! The US once again has its own cargo capability and even a return capability, in Dragon, that the Russians can’t offer. Hopefully commercial crew will soon finally close the US space access gap.
This such a cool little roomy human rated spaceship! Why are we not parking these in space and refueling them and using them for othet things??
Where is the trash bag Deorbitor to burn up trash so we can safe little spaceships.
Why must we always throw millions of dollars away!!
It is “human rated” only in the sense that other visiting (pressurized) cargo vessels are “human rated”.
I have to say Alan Lindenmoyer and Frank Culbertson are really well spoken on these Antares/Cygnus press conferences.
Congratulations to Orbital, from Chile South America
It’ll be interesting to see how these 2 strategies play out: vertical integration (SpaceX) v. horizontal integration (Orbital). SpaceX makes the complete stack; Orbital contracts out the pieces of the stack and functions as the integrator.
Sort of like Apple v. the PC.