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Video: Antares post-launch news conference

October 18, 2016 Justin Ray

This is the post-launch news briefing from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility held after the successful return to flight by the Orbital ATK Antares rocket that delivered the Cygnus cargo ship into space.

Video: Antares rocket returns to flight with new engines

October 17, 2016 Justin Ray

The Antares rocket, Orbital ATK’s medium-class booster now with modern RD-181 engines, launches at 7:45 p.m. EDT (2345 GMT) from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on the eastern shore of Virginia.

Cargo manifest for the OA-5 station resupply mission

October 17, 2016 Stephen Clark

The sixth commercial cargo delivery by Orbital ATK’s Cygnus spacecraft, and the first using an Antares rocket since a launch failure in 2014, will carry more than 5,000 pounds of equipment to the International Space Station.

Key events during the Antares rocket’s climb to orbit

October 17, 2016 Stephen Clark

Orbital ATK’s Antares rocket will deliver the commercial Cygnus supply ship to an orbit with an altitude between 130 miles and 179 miles within about nine minutes of liftoff from Virginia’s Eastern Shore.

Antares launch visibility maps

October 17, 2016 Stephen Clark

Residents along the U.S. East Coast from South Carolina to Massachusetts could glimpse Orbital ATK’s Antares rocket climbing into space Monday night on a cargo run to the International Space Station.

Live coverage: Cygnus supply ship captured by space station robot arm

October 17, 2016 Stephen Clark

After waiting for a Soyuz crew ferry craft to launch and dock, a commercial Cygnus supply ship arrived at the International Space Station with a fresh delivery of more than 5,100 pounds of provisions and experiments Sunday. The rendezvous culminated in the spaceship’s grapple by the space station’s robotic arm at 7:28 a.m. EDT (1128 GMT).

Video: Antares post-launch news conference

Video: Antares rocket returns to flight with new engines

Cargo manifest for the OA-5 station resupply mission

Key events during the Antares rocket’s climb to orbit

Antares launch visibility maps

Live coverage: Cygnus supply ship captured by space station robot arm

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