Author Topic: Antares: Cygnus NG-16 : August 10, 2021 22:01 UTC  (Read 54035 times)

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https://twitter.com/SEOPSLLC/status/1320827552542433280
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NG-16 is looking pretty good Scheduled for July ‘21, our #Slingshot Deployer will be going up on NG-16 for an ABOVE station deployment! Click the link for our deployment process
http://ow.ly/MaEu50C3e63
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Re: Antares: Cygnus NG-16 : July 2021
« Reply #1 on: 10/30/2020 12:38 pm »
Is this a first "above the ISS deployment' or is it common?
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Re: Antares: Cygnus NG-16 : July 2021
« Reply #2 on: 10/30/2020 01:01 pm »
Is this a first "above the ISS deployment' or is it common?
It was already done a lot of times.

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Re: Antares: Cygnus NG-16 : July 2021
« Reply #3 on: 11/16/2020 07:38 pm »
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Re: Antares: Cygnus NG-16 : July 2021
« Reply #4 on: 12/03/2020 12:44 am »
https://spaceflightnow.com/2020/10/01/northrop-grumman-optimistic-to-receive-more-nasa-cargo-mission-orders/
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Kurt Eberly, director of launch vehicles at Northrop Grumman, said the Ukrainian companies that build the Antares rocket’s core stages are ready to manufacture more rockets if needed.

The Antares core stages for the NG-14 launch Thursday and the NG-15 mission in February are currently at the Wallops launch site. Eberly said the core stages for the NG-16 and NG-17 missions are scheduled to be shipped from Ukraine to the United States by early December.

“Our Ukrainian suppliers are finishing up the cores for NG-16 and NG-17 as we speak,” Eberly said in an interview with Spaceflight Now.

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Re: Antares: Cygnus NG-16 : July 2021
« Reply #5 on: 12/03/2020 10:20 pm »
https://spaceflightnow.com/2020/10/01/northrop-grumman-optimistic-to-receive-more-nasa-cargo-mission-orders/
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Kurt Eberly, director of launch vehicles at Northrop Grumman, said the Ukrainian companies that build the Antares rocket’s core stages are ready to manufacture more rockets if needed.

The Antares core stages for the NG-14 launch Thursday and the NG-15 mission in February are currently at the Wallops launch site. Eberly said the core stages for the NG-16 and NG-17 missions are scheduled to be shipped from Ukraine to the United States by early December.

“Our Ukrainian suppliers are finishing up the cores for NG-16 and NG-17 as we speak,” Eberly said in an interview with Spaceflight Now.
Good news for Wallops :)
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Re: Antares: Cygnus NG-16 : July 2021
« Reply #6 on: 03/18/2021 07:42 pm »
Cygnus NG-16, is the sixteenth planned flight of the Northrop Grumman robotic resupply spacecraft Cygnus and its fifteenth flight to the International Space Station (ISS) under the Commercial Resupply Services (CRS-2) contract with NASA.
The mission is planned to launch on 1 July 2021 for a 56 day mission at ISS. This is the fifth launch of Cygnus under the CRS-2 contract.
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Re: Antares: Cygnus NG-16 : July 2021
« Reply #7 on: 04/01/2021 06:58 am »
https://spaceflightnow.com/launch-schedule/

According to SFN, new target launch date is August 01.

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Re: Antares: Cygnus NG-16 : August 2021
« Reply #8 on: 05/04/2021 11:14 pm »
0703-EX-ST-2021

WVSAT Mission Technical Description

The overall goal of the WVSAT mission, is to deploy small satellites with two distinct form factors,
to test ground station radar tracking, and in doing so, demonstrate rapid turnaround and deployment
of these satellites.

The experiment will use a total of 4 satellites, 2 ThinSats and 2 1U CubeSats, launched as a
secondary payload aboard NG16, from the mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, Wallops Island,
Virginia, Q3 2021. The satellites will be inserted into Low Earth Orbit (LEO), at 260 km apogee
and 180 km perigee, on an inclination from the equator of 51.6 degrees. They are deployed from a
single Canisterized Satellite Dispenser (CSD) mounted on the Antares second stage of the launch
vehicle. The ThinSats unfold accordion style as they exit the CSD; the two CubeSats are separate
from the ThinSats. Transmission will begin upon deployment, and cease when de-orbiting occurs.
See the Orbital Debris Assessment Report for details.

Each ThinSat spacecraft is comprised of multiple ThinSat units. Figure 1 shows a typical single
unit. One unit in WVSAT A has two frames layered together containing a single payload, as in
Figures 2. Figures 3, 4 and 5 show the composition and dimensions in mm of each spacecraft type,
and identify the spacecraft associated with the type.
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Re: Antares: Cygnus NG-16 : August 2021
« Reply #11 on: 06/09/2021 05:29 am »
twitter.com/spacepat_o/status/1402386081484529673

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Yesterday I spotted a spaceship (Cygnus) on my commute home! Had to go back for a second pic. 🤣

https://twitter.com/spacepat_o/status/1402414052941381633

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This was on the outer loop of the Baltimore Beltway.
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Re: Antares: Cygnus NG-16 : August 2021
« Reply #12 on: 06/10/2021 09:39 pm »
Marshall Ships Next-Generation Air Filtration Hardware to Wallops for Flight to International Space Station

Jun 10, 2021

New air filtration technology developed, built, and tested at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, is bound for the International Space Station – where it will demonstrate advanced life support system capabilities that could help future explorers on the Moon and Mars breathe easier.

The new hardware, known as the 4-Bed Carbon Dioxide Scrubber, was shipped June 9 from Marshall to NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Virginia, where it will be prepared to fly aboard the Cygnus NG-16 commercial resupply mission.

The scrubber is one of two next-generation Environmental Control and Life Support System technologies set to be tested on the space station for one year, helping recycle and regenerate most of the air and water necessary to sustain its crew – and proving advanced regenerative technology solutions for upcoming Artemis missions to the Moon and eventual human excursions to Mars. The Thermal Amine Scrubber, delivered to the station in early 2021, uses actively heated and cooled amine beds – water purification technology used around the world – to remove carbon dioxide from the air.

Once installed, the new carbon dioxide scrubber will use commercial adsorbent materials to retain water vapor while filtering carbon dioxide out of the space station’s airflow. Adsorption is the use of beaded porous materials, known as “molecular sieves,” to separate metabolic carbon dioxide to be discarded or recycled.

The space station’s current Carbon Dioxide Removal Assembly has conducted this task since early 2001. The 4-Bed Carbon Dioxide Scrubber is a design iteration of the current assembly, incorporating numerous engineering and technology changes to improve durability and maintainability. These upgrades and refinements are crucial for future exploration missions beyond Earth orbit. Once its year of technology demonstration is over and the system proves its capabilities, the new scrubber unit will be integrated into the station’s closed-loop recycling system for a minimum of three years to further demonstrate its viability for long-duration exploration missions and to contribute to station crew life support capabilities.

As many as 100 Marshall engineers, materials researchers, and safety personnel, plus sensor, filtration, and pump hardware specialists at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, had a hand in the design, fabrication, and testing of the new hardware unit, said Donnie McCaghren, project manager for the 4-bed CO2 scrubber at Marshall.

“Our primary goal was increasing efficiency and maintainability, to ensure fully functioning, longer-lasting hardware on orbit with less need for crew maintenance,” McCaghren said. “We reduced the scrubber’s power consumption, improved the thermal stability and lifespan of the adsorbent materials, and added replaceable filters, more durable valves, and protective covers for the valve motors.”

The team also upgraded the adsorbent bed internal heating units and redesigned the beds to be circular rather than rectangular, which improves performance and reliability. They also used Marshall’s state-of-the-art 3D printers to prototype and test key components – a capability that could enable crews in orbit, in years to come, to quickly print replacement parts as needed, rather than wait for resupply flights from Earth.

Additionally, the new scrubber unit will enable testing of a first-of-its-kind, magnetic bearing air blower to push the air through its adsorption beds. The blower was developed by a commercial provider for NASA to replace an obsolete blower technology.

The new hardware is roughly the size of a small refrigerator and weighs approximately 450 pounds. Its operation and technology demonstration will be overseen on orbit by mission controllers at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, with continuing contributions by Marshall space station hardware engineers.

The Cygnus NG-16 spacecraft, built by Northrop Grumman of Falls Church, Virginia, is scheduled to lift off later this summer.
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Last Updated: Jun 10, 2021
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Re: Antares: Cygnus NG-16 : August 2021
« Reply #13 on: 06/15/2021 08:25 pm »
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Re: Antares: Cygnus NG-16 : July 2021
« Reply #14 on: 06/18/2021 03:28 pm »
https://spaceflightnow.com/launch-schedule/

According to SFN, new target launch date is August 01.
Given that the OFT-2 Starliner flight is the only scheduled US space launch for July, it is possible that NASA and Northrop Grumman could slightly move up the date of the Cygnus NG-16 launch.

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Re: Antares: Cygnus NG-16 : August 2021
« Reply #15 on: 07/07/2021 08:01 pm »
.@NASA invites the media to view the launch of the @NorthropGrumman #Cygnus space freighter from Virginia to the station on Aug. 10 at 5:55pm ET.

https://twitter.com/Space_Station/status/1412852667873902594

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Re: Antares: Cygnus NG-16 : August 2021
« Reply #16 on: 07/08/2021 12:14 am »
New research is headed to the @Space_Station next month and media accreditation for the launch is now open! A Cygnus spacecraft will carry studies of slime molds, heat shields, 3D printing using simulated lunar soil, and more to space.

https://twitter.com/ISS_Research/status/1412883977636036614

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Re: Antares: Cygnus NG-16 : August 2021
« Reply #17 on: 07/08/2021 06:59 am »
July 07, 2021
MEDIA ADVISORY M21-079

NASA Invites Media to Northrop Grumman’s August Launch from Virginia
 

Media accreditation is open for the launch from Virginia of Northrop Grumman’s 16th commercial resupply services mission to deliver NASA science investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station aboard its Cygnus spacecraft.

Northrop Grumman is targeting liftoff of its Antares rocket for no earlier than 5:55 p.m. EDT Tuesday, Aug. 10, from Pad-0A of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island.

Both U.S. and international media, as described in NASA’s newly released agencywide media accreditation policy, must apply by 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 27. All accreditation requests must be sent to Keith Koehler at: [email protected]. Due to ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) restrictions, registration for international media for this launch will be limited to international media already based in the United States.

Each resupply mission to the station delivers scientific investigations in the areas of biology and biotechnology, Earth and space science, physical sciences, and technology development and demonstrations.

Highlights of space station research facilitated by this mission are:

The Redwire Regolith Print study, which demonstrates 3D printing in space using a material simulating rock and soil found on the surfaces of planetary bodies, such as the Moon.

Blob, an ESA (European Space Agency) investigation, which will allow students to see how slime molds’ behavior is affected by microgravity.

Capsules, which will deploy when Cygnus re-enters the atmosphere and transmit data to test an affordable thermal protection system, also known as a heat shield.

A new spacecraft carbon dioxide removal technology that could help future explorers on the Moon and Mars breathe more easily.
Cargo resupply from U.S. companies ensures a national capability to deliver critical science research to the space station, significantly increasing NASA's ability to conduct new investigations at this laboratory in space. Cygnus also will carry a new modification kit, or mounting bracket, that astronauts will attach to the left (port) side of the station’s backbone truss in a location designated P4 during a spacewalk planned for late August. The mounting bracket will enable the installation of one of the next pair of new solar array to be at a later date.

Get more information about Northrop Grumman’s commercial resupply missions at:

https://www.nasa.gov/northropgrumman
Jacques :-)

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Re: Antares: Cygnus NG-16 : August 10, 2021 21:55 UTC
« Reply #18 on: 07/10/2021 10:50 am »
More @ISS_Research, tech demos, and supplies will be heading to @space_station aboard a @northropgrumman Cygnus spacecraft. Launch is set for 5:55 p.m. EDT, Tuesday, Aug. 10 from @NASA_Wallops:

https://twitter.com/KathyLueders/status/1413600595999666182

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Re: Antares: Cygnus NG-16 : August 10, 2021 21:55 UTC
« Reply #19 on: 07/12/2021 04:58 pm »


Quote from: Northrop Grumman
Meet NG-16: The S.S. Ellison Onizuka

Northrop Grumman names each Cygnus spacecraft in honor of an individual who has made great contributions to human spaceflight. For the NG-16 mission, Cygnus is named in honor of Ellison Onizuka, the first Asian American astronaut. The S.S. Ellison Onizuka launches from Wallops Island, Virginia on August 10, 2021.

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