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Re: LIVE: Atlas V 401 - Cygnus OA-6 - March 22, 2016
« Reply #20 on: 01/23/2016 08:21 am »
Jacques :-)

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Re: LIVE: Atlas V 401 - Cygnus OA-6 - March 22, 2016
« Reply #21 on: 01/26/2016 04:42 am »
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Re: LIVE: Atlas V 401 - Cygnus OA-6 - March 22, 2016
« Reply #22 on: 01/26/2016 12:01 pm »
Who builds the 400-ISA and where?
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Re: LIVE: Atlas V 401 - Cygnus OA-6 - March 22, 2016
« Reply #23 on: 01/26/2016 02:03 pm »
Who builds the 400-ISA and where?

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Re: LIVE: Atlas V 401 - Cygnus OA-6 - March 22, 2016
« Reply #25 on: 01/30/2016 09:06 am »
January 29, 2016
MEDIA ADVISORY M16-007

Media Accreditation Open for Next Commercial Space Station Cargo Mission
 
NASA has opened media accreditation for the next launch of a commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station. The launch of Orbital ATK’s Cygnus spacecraft is scheduled for Thursday, March 10, during a 30-minute window that opens at approximately 3 a.m. EST.

Cygnus will launch on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) in Florida. The spacecraft will carry crew supplies and vehicle hardware to the orbital laboratory to support the Expedition 47 and 48 crews.

Media prelaunch and launch activities will take place at CCAFS and NASA’s nearby Kennedy Space Center. For media only, the deadline to apply for access to CCAFS is 5 p.m. Feb. 18 for U.S. citizens and Feb. 5 for non-citizens. The deadline to apply for media access to Kennedy is 5 p.m. on March 1 for U.S. citizens and Feb. 22 for non-citizens.

All media accreditation requests for Kennedy must be submitted online at:

https://media.ksc.nasa.gov

International media are required to upload a scanned copy of their visa and passport or green card when submitting their online accreditation request.


All media representatives must present two forms of unexpired legal, government identification to access Kennedy. One form must include a photo, such as a passport or driver’s license. Questions about accreditation should be directed to Jennifer Horner at [email protected] or 321-867-6598.


For other questions or additional information, contact the Kennedy newsroom at 321-867-2468.

This launch is the fifth contracted mission by Orbital ATK under NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) contract and will be followed later this year by an Orbital ATK resupply mission launching from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Virginia.

Science payloads heading to the space station on this launch include:
•the second generation of a portable onboard printer to demonstrate 3-D printing;
•an instrument for first space-based observations of the chemical composition of meteors entering Earth’s atmosphere; and
•an experiment to ignite and study a large-scale fire inside an empty Cygnus resupply vehicle after it leaves the space station and before it re-enters Earth’s atmosphere to improving understanding of fire growth in microgravity and safeguarding future space missions.

The International Space Station is a convergence of science, technology and human innovation that demonstrates new technologies and makes research breakthroughs not possible on Earth. The space station has been occupied continuously since November 2000. In that time, more than 200 people and a variety of international and commercial spacecraft have visited the orbiting laboratory. The space station remains the springboard to NASA's next great leap in exploration, including future missions to an asteroid and Mars.

For NASA TV schedule and video streaming information, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/nasatv

For launch countdown coverage, NASA's launch blog, and more information about the mission, visit:

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Re: LIVE: Atlas V 401 - Cygnus OA-6 - March 22, 2016
« Reply #26 on: 01/31/2016 07:32 am »
Who builds the 400-ISA and where?

Ruag
Thanks Jim and co, could you also kindly answer this - sometimes the tail number changes for a mission. Does that mean the mission is effectively assigned to another rocket? Eg, AV-076 changed to OFT Starliner. Also does the AV number apply to the whole Atlas rocket - first and upper stages as one?
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Re: LIVE: Atlas V 401 - Cygnus OA-6 - March 22, 2016
« Reply #27 on: 01/31/2016 12:04 pm »
Thanks Jim and co, could you also kindly answer this - sometimes the tail number changes for a mission. Does that mean the mission is effectively assigned to another rocket? Eg, AV-076 changed to OFT Starliner. Also does the AV number apply to the whole Atlas rocket - first and upper stages as one?

Yes and not.  I have seen hardware changed for tail numbers (upperstages swapped out). 

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Re: LIVE: Atlas V 401 - Cygnus OA-6 - March 22, 2016
« Reply #28 on: 01/31/2016 03:04 pm »
Thanks Jim and co, could you also kindly answer this - sometimes the tail number changes for a mission. Does that mean the mission is effectively assigned to another rocket? Eg, AV-076 changed to OFT Starliner. Also does the AV number apply to the whole Atlas rocket - first and upper stages as one?

It's usually a real hardware swap for the booster, and might or might not be for the Centaur.
With Insight falling out of the queue, WV-4 (was Block 3 Avionics) is getting both stages of Insight (AV-062), Block 2). 
L-79 is now AV-068 (was OsirisRex booster), but I believe (not positive), is keeping the same Centaur.  Both are Block 3, but different revs, so the boosters do have different hardware.

Relative to mission unique hardware, it's usually only on the upper stage, so not as easy to swap sometimes.
It's a little more churn than normal right now because of the avionics changes occurring, along with the re-shuffling of missions.

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Re: LIVE: Atlas V 401 - Cygnus OA-6 - March 22, 2016
« Reply #29 on: 02/02/2016 11:28 pm »
Another Cygnus comes together!

Orbital ATK’s Service Module and the Pressurized Cargo Module were mated on February 1, 2016 to form the enhanced Cygnus spacecraft that will deliver cargo to the International Space Station on the upcoming OA-6 mission.

The spacecraft components were mated at NASA's Kennedy Space Center Space Station Processing Facility. Soon, Cygnus will be integrated with a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket in preparation for a March 10 launch.
Best quote heard during an inspection, "I was unaware that I was the only one who was aware."

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Re: LIVE: Atlas V 401 - Cygnus OA-6 - March 22, 2016
« Reply #30 on: 02/03/2016 09:48 am »
Hard to figure out the name of the ship for now...

S.S. R.... ?
Jacques :-)

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Re: LIVE: Atlas V 401 - Cygnus OA-6 - March 22, 2016
« Reply #31 on: 02/03/2016 12:23 pm »
Hard to figure out the name of the ship for now...

S.S. R.... ?

Just throwing a guess out there, it would be appropriate for it to be "S.S. Roger Chaffee.
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Re: LIVE: Atlas V 401 - Cygnus OA-6 - March 22, 2016
« Reply #32 on: 02/03/2016 01:41 pm »
Did Roger Chaffee ever work for Orbital ATK?
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Re: LIVE: Atlas V 401 - Cygnus OA-6 - March 22, 2016
« Reply #33 on: 02/03/2016 03:45 pm »
Did Roger Chaffee ever work for Orbital ATK?

Certainly not. Neither did David Low, Gordon Fullerton, Janice Voss or Deke Slayton. Orbital tends to name their Cygnus spacecraft after notable astronauts or others in the space community, all deceased.

EDIT: Corrected by Jim.
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Re: LIVE: Atlas V 401 - Cygnus OA-6 - March 22, 2016
« Reply #34 on: 02/03/2016 03:51 pm »
Did Roger Chaffee ever work for Orbital ATK?

Certainly not. Neither did David Low, Gordon Fullerton, Janice Voss or Deke Slayton. Orbital tends to name their Cygnus spacecraft after notable astronauts or others in the space community, all deceased.

Low and Voss did
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Re: LIVE: Atlas V 401 - Cygnus OA-6 - March 22, 2016
« Reply #35 on: 02/03/2016 03:52 pm »
Did Roger Chaffee ever work for Orbital ATK?

Orbital was formed in the 80's

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Re: LIVE: Atlas V 401 - Cygnus OA-6 - March 22, 2016
« Reply #36 on: 02/03/2016 04:25 pm »
Hard to figure out the name of the ship for now...

S.S. R.... ?

Just throwing a guess out there, it would be appropriate for it to be "S.S. Roger Chaffee.

If the sticker is centered, I think it has to be a short name.

"Ron McNair" "Ron Parise" ?

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Re: LIVE: Atlas V 401 - Cygnus OA-6 - March 22, 2016
« Reply #37 on: 02/03/2016 08:49 pm »
Hard to figure out the name of the ship for now...

S.S. R.... ?
Rick Husband?


SAFFIRE payload up on the ceiling in that shot too.
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Re: LIVE: Atlas V 401 - Cygnus OA-6 - March 22, 2016
« Reply #38 on: 02/04/2016 03:42 am »
How about "Ronald Evans"?

He was the Command Module Pilot on Apollo 17.
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Re: LIVE: Atlas V 401 - Cygnus OA-6 - March 22, 2016
« Reply #39 on: 02/05/2016 02:00 pm »
http://www.patrick.af.mil/index.asp
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Launch Vehicle/Mission: ATLAS V OA-6
Date: March 10, 2016 (Thursday)
Launch Window Opens: 2:58 a.m. ET
Launch Complex: 41

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