{"id":1335,"date":"2014-01-12T19:34:52","date_gmt":"2014-01-12T19:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orbitalhub.com\/?p=1335"},"modified":"2014-01-12T19:34:52","modified_gmt":"2014-01-12T19:34:52","slug":"cygnus-spacecraft-successfully-berths-with-iss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/?p=1335","title":{"rendered":"Cygnus Spacecraft Successfully Berths With ISS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; padding-right: 30px;\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 5px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 5px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"601\" height=\"338\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jMCvyN_hSv4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"601\" height=\"338\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4zSxDgu9Uv0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 5px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Orbital dixit:<\/p>\n<p>Orbital Sciences Corporation,<br \/>\none of the world\u2019s leading space technology companies, today announced that<br \/>\nits Cygnus\u2122 cargo logistics spacecraft successfully completed its<br \/>\nrendezvous and approach maneuvers with the International Space Station<br \/>\n(ISS) and was grappled and berthed with the station by the Expedition 38<br \/>\nastronaut crew earlier this morning.  After Cygnus was launched into orbit<br \/>\nby Orbital\u2019s Antares\u2122 rocket on Thursday, January 9 from NASA\u2019s Wallops<br \/>\nFlight Facility, it completed a series of thruster firings and other<br \/>\nmaneuvers bringing the spacecraft in close proximity to the ISS.  Final<br \/>\napproach to the station began at about 3:00 a.m. (EST) this morning,<br \/>\nculminating with the station\u2019s robotic arm grappling the spacecraft at 6:08<br \/>\na.m. when it was about 30 feet (10 meters) from the ISS.  Cygnus was then<br \/>\nguided to its berthing port on the nadir side of the ISS\u2019 Harmony module<br \/>\nwhere its installation was completed at 8:05 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our first mission under the CRS contract with NASA was flawlessly executed<br \/>\nby our Antares and Cygnus operations team, from the picture-perfect launch<br \/>\nfrom NASA\u2019s Wallops Flight Facility to the rendezvous, capture and berthing<br \/>\nat the space station this morning,&#8221; said Mr. David W. Thompson, Orbital\u2019s<br \/>\nPresident and Chief Executive Officer.  &#8220;From the men and women involved in<br \/>\nthe design, integration and test, to those who launched the Antares and<br \/>\noperated the Cygnus, our whole team has performed at a very high level for<br \/>\nour NASA customer and I am very proud of their extraordinary efforts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cygnus will remain berthed at the ISS until February 18. Cygnus is<br \/>\ndelivering approximately 2,780 lbs. (1,260 kg.) of cargo and science<br \/>\npayloads to the Expedition 38 astronauts.  Either later today or tomorrow,<br \/>\nthe crew plans to open the Cygnus hatch and make initial ingress into its<br \/>\ncargo module.  Cygnus will remain attached to the station for 37 days<br \/>\nbefore departing with approximately 2,800 lbs. (1,300 kg.) of disposable<br \/>\ncargo for a safe, destructive reentry over the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>Under a $1.9 billion CRS contract with NASA, Orbital will use Antares and<br \/>\nCygnus to deliver up to 44,000 pounds (20,000 kilograms) of cargo to the<br \/>\nISS over eight missions, including the mission currently underway, through<br \/>\nlate 2016.  For these missions, NASA will manifest a variety of essential<br \/>\nitems based on ISS program needs, including food, clothing, crew supplies,<br \/>\nspare parts and equipment, and scientific experiments.<\/p>\n<p>Credit: NASA \/ Orbital Sciences Corporation<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 5px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orbital dixit:Orbital Sciences Corporation, one of the world\u2019s leading space technology companies, today announced thatits Cygnus\u2122 cargo logistics spacecraft successfully completed itsrendezvous and approach maneuvers with the International Space Station(ISS) and was grappled and berthed with the station by the Expedition 38astronaut crew earlier this morning.  After Cygnus was &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[463],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}