Cygnus NG-18

S.S Sally Ride
Cygnus NG-18 Patch.png
BeställareNASA
Uppkallad efterSally Ride
TillverkareNorthrop Grumman
Thales Alenia Space
ModellCygnus förstärkt
OperatörNorthrop Grumman
Färdens tid166 dag
NSSDC-ID2022-149A[1]
Uppskjutning
StartplatsMARS LP-0A, Wallops Flight Facility
RaketAntares 230+
Uppskjutning7 november 2022,
10:32:42 UTC
Återinträde
Återinträde22 april 2023,
03:12 UTC
Omloppsbana
Banlutning51,6°
Dockning
RymdstationISS
Greppad9 november 2022,
10:20 UTC
Dockning9 november 2022,
13:05 UTC
DockningsportUnity, nadir
Ur dockning21 april 2023,
08:37 UTC
Släppt21 april 2023,
11:22 UTC
Tid dockad163 dag
Kronologi
Föregående uppdrag
Cygnus NG-17
Nästa uppdrag
Cygnus NG-19

Cygnus NG-18 var en flygning av en av företaget Northrop Grummans Cygnus rymdfarkoster till Internationella rymdstationen (ISS). Farkosten sköts upp med en Antares 230+ raket, från Wallops Flight Facility i Virginia, den 7 november 2022.[2]

Farkosten kallas S.S. Sally Ride och är uppkallad efter den avlidna amerikanska astronauten Sally Ride.

Den 9 november 2022 dockades farkosten med rymdstationen med hjälp av Canadarm2.

Målet med flygningen var att leverera material och förnödenheter till ISS.

Den lämnade rymdstationen den 21 april 2023 och brann upp i jordens atmosfär den 22 april 2023.

Problem

Strax efter uppskjutningen, vecklades inte en av farkostens två solpaneler, ut. Man gjorde bedömningen att det inte skulle påverka dockningen med rymdstationen. Rymdsonden Lucy som använder samma typ av solpaneler, drabbades 2021 av ett liknande problem.[3]

Källor

Fotnoter

  1. ^ ”NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive” (på engelska). NASA. https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=2022-149A. Läst 5 december 2022. 
  2. ^ Rob Garner (6 november 2022). ”Today’s Launch Postponed” (på engelska). NASA. https://blogs.nasa.gov/ng-crs-18/2022/11/06/todays-launch-postponed/. Läst 6 november 2022. 
  3. ^ Jeff Foust (7 november 2022). ”Cygnus solar array fails to deploy” (på engelska). SpaceNews. https://spacenews.com/cygnus-solar-array-fails-to-deploy/. Läst 5 december 2022. 

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ISS021-E-017623 (30 Oct. 2009) --- Backdropped by a cloud-covered part of Earth, the unpiloted Japanese H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV), filled with trash and unneeded items, departs from the International Space Station. European Space Agency astronaut Frank De Winne, Expedition 21 commander; NASA astronaut Nicole Stott and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Robert Thirsk, both flight engineers, used the station's Canadarm2 robotic arm to grab the HTV cargo craft and unberth it from the Harmony node's nadir port. The HTV was successfully unberthed at 10:18 a.m. (CDT) on Oct. 30, 2009, and released from the station's Canadarm2 at 12:32 p.m.
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for return to Earth and subsequent processing.
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NASA's patch for the Northrop Grumman Cygnus NG-18 commercial services resupply mission.
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The Expedition 37 crew captured Cygnus with the Canadarm2 at 7 a.m. EDT Sunday, Sept. 29, 2013, and attached it to the Harmony node at 8:44 a.m.
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ISS026-E-037172 (24 Feb. 2011) --- Surrounded by the blackness of space, the European Space Agency's "Johannes Kepler" Automated Transfer Vehicle-2 (ATV-2) approaches the International Space Station. Docking of the two spacecraft occurred at 10:59 a.m. (EST) on Feb. 24, 2011.