The Orb-2/Cygnus vehicle successfully berthed with the International Space Station (ISS) at 8:53 am ET, yesterday, July 16, 2014. Stacy Hamel, the SSEP Flight Operations Manager, has alerted all Mission 5 student research teams that we expect the first of the Charlie Brown experiments to be activated today by crew aboard ISS. Four student teams are […]
Archive | July, 2014
The Flight of Charlie Brown – the SSEP Mission 5 Payload: WATCH LIVE Berthing of Cygnus to ISS
At 12:52 pm ET, July 13, 2014, the Orb-2 vehicle with the SSEP Mission 5 Charlie Brown payload of experiments blasted off from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS), Wallops Island, VA. The Cygnus spacecraft is scheduled to rendezvous with the International Space Station, Wednesday, July 16, 2014, with grappling at 6:39 am ET, followed by […]
LIVE COVERAGE – The Flight of Charlie Brown – the SSEP Payload of 15 Mission 5 to ISS Experiments on Orb-2, Liftoff July 13, 12:52 pm ET, MARS
After a number of launch slips, we are GO FOR LAUNCH of Orb-2 at 12:52 pm ET today. The SSEP Mission 5 Charlie Brown payload of 15 experiments will be aboard the Orbital Sciences 2 (Orb-2) vehicle launching from Pad 0-A at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS). The vehicle is comprised of the Antares rocket and Cygnus spacecraft. […]