Mission record
Atlas V 401 | Cygnus CRS OA-7 (S.S. John Glenn)
Trajectory & orbital insertion
Ascent path is a representation — true ascent telemetry isn’t public.
Provider
United Launch Alliance
Provider type
Commercial
Orbit
LEO
Mission type
Resupply
Launch site
United States of America
Date
Tue, 18 Apr 2017 15:11:26 GMT
Orbital launch #
#5635 ever
Go probability
90%
Mission
This is the eighth planned flight of the Orbital ATK's unmanned resupply spacecraft Cygnus and its seventh flight to the International Space Station under the Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA. Orbital ATK named the vehicle after astronaut John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth and pioneer of human spaceflight.