Mission record
Antares 230 | Cygnus CRS OA-5 (S.S. Alan Poindexter)
Trajectory & orbital insertion
Ascent path is a representation — true ascent telemetry isn’t public.
Provider
Orbital ATK
Provider type
Commercial
Orbit
LEO
Mission type
Resupply
Launch site
United States of America
Date
Mon, 17 Oct 2016 23:45:36 GMT
Orbital launch #
#5593 ever
Go probability
100%
Mission
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.