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Orbital Sciences selects ULA’s Atlas V to launch Next Cygnus Cargo Ship to Station
A United Launch Alliance Altas V 401 rocket like shown here will launch the next Orbital Sciences Cygnus cargo ship to the space station in place of the Antares rocket. NASA’s Mars bound MAVEN spacecraft launches atop Atlas V booster at 1:28 p.m. EST from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Nov. 18, 2013. Image taken from the roof of the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com
Following the catastrophic Oct. 28 failure of Orbital Sciences Corporation Antares rocket on a critical resupply mission to the space station for NASA, the company is seeking to quickly make up the loss to NASA by announcing the selection of the venerable Atlas V rocket built by United Launch Alliance to launch Orbital’s next Cygnus cargo ship to the orbital science lab.
Orbital and ULA signed a contract to launch at least one and up to two Cygnus cargo missions to the International Space Station (ISS) under NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) program.(…)
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Post tags: antares launch failure, Antares rocket, Antares rocket explosion, Atlas 5 rocket, commercial resupply services (CRS), CRS, Cygnus cargo vessel, NASA, NASA Wallops, Orb-3, Orbital Sciences Corporation, ULA
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Source: http://www.universetoday.com/117190/orbital-sciences-selects-ulas-atlas-v-to-launch-next-cygnus-cargo-ship-to-station/
