Cygnus NG-14

NG-14
Canadarm2 approaches the S.S. Kalpana Chawla
NamesCRS NG-14
CRS OA-14 (2016–2018)
Mission typeISS resupply
OperatorNorthrop Grumman
COSPAR ID2020-069A Edit this at Wikidata
SATCAT no.46530Edit this on Wikidata
WebsiteNG-14
Mission duration115 days, 19 hours, 6 minutes
Spacecraft properties
SpacecraftS.S. Kalpana Chawla
Spacecraft typeEnhanced Cygnus
Manufacturer
Launch mass7,919 kg (17,458 lb)
Payload mass3,551 kg (7,829 lb)[1]
Start of mission
Launch date3 October 2020, 01:16:14 (3 October 2020, 01:16:14) UTC (9:16:14 pm EDT)[2]
RocketAntares 230+
Launch siteMARS, Pad 0A
End of mission
DisposalDeorbited
Decay date26 January 2021, 20:23 (26 January 2021, 20:23) UTC[3]
Orbital parameters
Reference systemGeocentric orbit
RegimeLow Earth orbit
Inclination51.66°
Berthing at ISS
Berthing portUnity nadir
RMS capture5 October 2020, 09:32 UTC
Berthing date5 October 2020, 12:01 UTC
Unberthing date6 January 2021, 12:15 UTC[4]
RMS release6 January 2021, 15:11 UTC[5]
Time berthed93 days, 14 minutes

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NG-14,[2][5] previously known as OA-14, was the fifteenth flight of the Northrop Grumman robotic resupply spacecraft Cygnus and its fourteenth flight to the International Space Station under the Commercial Resupply Services (CRS-1) contract with NASA. The mission was launched on 3 October 2020, at 01:16:14 UTC.[6]

Orbital ATK (now Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems) and NASA jointly developed a new space transportation system to provide commercial cargo resupply services to the International Space Station (ISS).[7] Under the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program, Orbital ATK designed, acquired, built, and assembled these components: Antares, a medium-class launch vehicle; Cygnus, an advanced spacecraft using a Pressurized Cargo Module (PCM) provided by industrial partner Thales Alenia Space, Turin, Italy and a Service Module based on the Orbital Sciences' (headquartered at Dulles, Virginia) GEOStar satellite bus.[8][9]

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