Orbital-1
201401090006hq (9 Jan. 2014) --- An Orbital Sciences Corporation Antares rocket is seen as it launches from Pad-0A at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility (Virginia) on Jan. 9, 2014. Antares is carrying the Cygnus spacecraft on a cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station. The Orbital-1 mission is Orbital Sciences' first contracted cargo delivery flight to the space station for NASA. Cygnus is carrying science experiments, crew provisions, spare parts and other hardware to the space station.
Mission: Orbital-1
Launch date: Thursday, January 9, 2014 at 1:07 p.m. EDT
Location: Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport’s Pad-0A at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility
The ISS National Lab is proud to announce its first sponsored payloads berthed with the International Space Station on Sunday, January 12. Orbital Sciences Corporation’s Cygnus capsule successfully berthed with the ISS, marking the completion of its first full ISS resupply mission.
