Well folks, here we are! The first launch of Cygnus on Falcon 9!
Scheduled for (UTC) | 2024-01-30, 17:07 |
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Scheduled for (local) | 2024-01-30, 12:07 (EST) |
Mission | CRS NG-20 |
Launch site | SLC-40, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA. |
Booster | B1077-10 |
Landing | LZ-1 |
Payload spacecraft | Cygnus |
Customer | Northrop Grumman / NASA |
Mission success criteria | Successful launch and docking to the ISS |
Webcasts
Stream | Link |
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Space Affairs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZwX1CfFLtA |
NASA | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mp1rp5R4Q1U |
NASASpaceflight | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyaI5LR150w |
Spaceflight Now | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W08HLn1Owgk |
The Launch Pad | |
Everyday Astronaut | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IonNr5iLjH4 |
SpaceX | https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1752373649007604021#m |
The Space Devs | TBD |
Stats
Sourced from NextSpaceflight and r/SpaceX:
☑️ 4th launch from SLC-40 this year
☑️ 15 days, 15:15:00 turnaround for this pad
☑️ 10th Falcon 9 launch this year, 296th Falcon 9 mission overall
☑️ 35th landing on LZ-1
☑️ 223rd consecutive successful Falcon 9 launch (excluding Amos-6) (if successful)
☑️ 270th Falcon Family Booster landing, 280th Falcon recovery attempt
☑️ 10th SpaceX launch this year
☑️ 310th SpaceX mission overall (excluding Starship hops)
☑️ 322nd SpaceX launch overall (including Starship hops)
Mission info
- NextSpaceflight mission page
- SpaceX mission website
- Northrop Grumman mission website
- SpaceNews article
- NASASpaceFlight article
This will be the first of three Cygnus missions to fly aboard Falcon 9 for Northrop Grumman to fulfill its cargo delivery contract while the new Antares 330 is under development.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters CRS Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA MECO Main Engine Cut-Off ~ MainEngineCutOff podcast NG New Glenn, two/three-stage orbital vehicle by Blue Origin ~ Natural Gas (as opposed to pure methane) ~ Northrop Grumman, aerospace manufacturer
2 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 8 acronyms.
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