jeudi 1 octobre 2020

Launch of Northrop Grumman’s Antares rocket carrying a Cygnus spacecraft Scrubbed

 







Northrop Grumman - Cygnus NG-14 Mission patch.


Oct. 1, 2020


Tonight’s launch attempt of NASA commercial cargo provider Northrop Grumman’s  14th resupply mission to the International Space Station has been scrubbed.

NG-14: Antares 230+ aborted launch with S.S. Kalpana Chawla Cygnus

The launch of a Northrop Grumman Antares 230+ rocket with the CRS-14 Cygnus spacecraft, dubbed the S.S. Kalpana Chawla, was aborted due to a problem with the ground support equipment, from MARS Pad 0A, at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Virginia, on 2 October 2020, at 01:43:44 UTC (1 October, at 21:43:44 EDT).

Related article:

U.S. Cargo Poised for Launch; Robotics, Health Checks for Crew
https://orbiterchspacenews.blogspot.com/2020/10/us-cargo-poised-for-launch-robotics.html

Related link:

International Space Station (ISS): https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html

Image, Video, Text, Credits: Northrop Grumman/NASA/SciNews/Orbiter.ch Aerospace/Roland Berga.

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