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NASA: Orbital ATK Eyes Aug. 22 Launch Date for Sixth ISS Cargo Resupply Mission

NASA: Orbital ATK Eyes Aug. 22 Launch Date for Sixth ISS Cargo Resupply Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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rocket launchOrbital ATK aims to launch a company-built Cygnus spacecraft for its sixth cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station by Aug. 22 under the Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA.

NASA said Friday that Cygnus will lift off from Pad-0A of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at the agency’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia onboard an Antares rocket.

The spacecraft is built to deliver hardware and supplies to the ISS Expedition 48 and 49 crew members, the agency noted.

Orbital ATK and Space Exploration Technologies were awarded separate contract modifications in March last year to help NASA transport approximately 44,000 pounds of provisions, food, clothes, experiments and spare parts to the orbiting laboratory in 2017.

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Written by Mary-Louise Hoffman

is a writer of news summaries about executive-level business activity in the government contracting sector. Her reports for ExecutiveBiz are focused on trends and events that drive the GovCon industry to include commercial technologies that private companies are developing for federal government use. She contributes news content to ExecutiveBiz’s sister sites GovCon Wire and ExecutiveGov.

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