Cygnus NG-17
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Cygnus NG-17,[2] previously known as Cygnus OA-17, was the seventeenth flight of the Northrop Grumman robotic resupply spacecraft Cygnus and its sixteenth flight to the International Space Station (ISS) under the Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) contract with NASA. The mission launched on 19 February 2022 at 17:40:03 UTC.[1] It was the sixth launch of Cygnus under the CRS-2 contract.[3][4]
Names | Cygnus OA-17 (2016–2018) |
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Mission type | ISS resupply |
Operator | Northrop Grumman |
COSPAR ID | 2022-015A |
SATCAT no. | 51712 |
Mission duration | 119 days, 13 hours, 14 minutes |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft | S.S. Piers Sellers |
Spacecraft type | Enhanced Cygnus |
Manufacturer |
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Launch mass | . |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 19 February 2022, 17:40:03 UTC[1] |
Rocket | Antares 230+ |
Launch site | Wallops, Pad 0A |
Contractor | Northrop Grumman |
End of mission | |
Disposal | Deorbited |
Decay date | 29 June 2022, 06:55 UTC |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric orbit |
Regime | Low Earth orbit |
Inclination | 51.66° |
Berthing at International Space Station | |
Berthing port | Unity nadir |
RMS capture | 21 February 2022, 09:44 UTC |
Berthing date | 21 February 2022, 12:02 UTC |
Unberthing date | 28 June 2022, 07:00 UTC |
RMS release | 28 June 2022, 11:07 UTC |
Time berthed | 127 days |
Cygnus NG-17 mission patch |
Orbital ATK’s space division (now part of Northrop Grumman Space Systems) 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 Services (COTS) program, Orbital ATK designed, acquired, built, and assembled these components: Antares, a medium-class launch vehicle; Cygnus, an advanced spacecraft using a Pressurized Cargo Module (PCM) provided by industrial partner Thales Alenia Space and a Service Module based on the Orbital GEOStar satellite bus.[5]