NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Success

CRS NG-12

Launch Time
Sat Nov 02, 2019 13:59 UTC

First flight of Antares 230+.

Rocket

Antares 230+
Image Credit: NASA
Northrop
Status: Retired
Price: $85.0 million
Liftoff Thrust: 3,844 kN
Payload to LEO: 8,000 kg
Stages: 2
Strap-ons: 0
Rocket Height: 42.5 m
Fairing Diameter: 3.9 m
Fairing Height: 9.9 m

Mission Details

CRS NG-12

Cygnus NG-12 (Northrop Grumman-12) is a cargo resupply mission of the Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft to the International Space Station under the Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) contract with NASA.

Northrop Grumman and NASA jointly developed a new space transportation system to provide commercial cargo resupply services to the International Space Station. The Cygnus cargo ship consists of two parts, a service module built in the USA based on the GEOStar platform, and a pressurized module, manufactured in France and Italy by Thales Alenia. The cargo is sent into orbit by a launcher specially developed for this purpose.

Antares has a first stage based on Energiya lateral blocks, made in Ukraine by Yuzhnoye. It was initially powered by two NK-33s, built in the 1960s for the Soviet N1 lunar launcher, before being replaced by RD-181s, derived from the RD-170s installed on Energiya and Zenit. The second stage, a Castor-30, is made in the USA, by Northrop Grumman.

CRS NG-12 was captured by RMS on 04/11/2019 at 09:10 UTC and berthed to the Nadir port of the Unity module of the International Space Station on 04/11/2019 at 11:21 UTC. Its stay on the ISS was 88 days. It was unberthed on 31/01/2020 at 13:10 UTC and released by RMS on 31/01/2020 at 14:36 UTC. It deorbited on 17/03/2020 at 23:00 UTC.

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 3,705.0 kg
Low Earth Orbit

Location

LP-0A, Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA

Stats

2019

76th orbital launch attempt

Antares

11th mission
2nd mission of 2019
10th successful mission
6th consecutive successful mission