Human Spaceflight
CYGNUS NG-13
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Cygnus is an expendable American uncrewed cargo spacecraft developed for International Space Station (ISS) resupply missions. It was originally built by Orbital Sciences Corporation with financial support from NASA under the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program. The spacecraft consists of a pressurized cargo module—based largely on the Multi-Purpose Logistics Module and built by Thales Alenia Space—paired with a service module derived from Orbital's GEOStar, a satellite bus. Following a successful demonstration flight in 2013, Orbital was awarded a Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) contract.
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Launch
- Launch date
- February 15, 2020 at 08:21 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Wallops Island, USA
- Launched by
- Antares 230+ →
- Operator
- Northrop Grumman Space Systems
- Mission
- Cygnus CRS-2 NG-13 (S.S. Robert H. Lawrence.)
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 360 km
- Periapsis
- 355 km
- Inclination
- 51.64°
- Orbital period
- 91.7 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 7,000 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2020-011A
- NORAD catalog №
- 45175
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- May 29, 2020
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- May 29, 2020
- Time in service
- 104 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed