2016 · Orbital ATK
Cygnus CRS OA-5 (S.S. Alan Poindexter)
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This is the seventh flight of the Orbital ATK's unmanned resupply spacecraft Cygnus and its sixth flight to the International Space Station under the Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA. Orbital ATK named the vehicle after astronaut Alan Poindexter who was the commander of STS-131.
Overview
- Date / time
- October 17, 2016 at 11:45 PM UTC
- Outcome
- success
- Mission
- Cygnus CRS OA-5 (S.S. Alan Poindexter)
- Mission type
- Resupply
- Orbit achieved
- Low Earth Orbit