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NASA Launches Orbital Sciences Spacecraft for 2nd Resupply Mission to Intl Space Station

NASA Launches Orbital Sciences Spacecraft for 2nd Resupply Mission to Intl Space Station - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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rocket launchAn Orbital Sciences-built spacecraft took off Sunday from Wallops Island, Virginia for the International Space Station, carrying nearly 3,300 pounds of technology and scientific cargo.

Orbital and NASA launched a Cygnus cargo capsule aboard an Antares rocket at the agency’s Wallops Flight Facility at 12:52 p.m. Eastern time, NASA said Sunday.

The Sunday launch marks Orbital’s second delivery mission under a $1.9 billion Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA.

The company is contracted to perform at least eight cargo missions to ISS through 2016.

Payloads of the spacecraft include Earth observation nanosatellites, a technical and educational satellite investigation and an experimental three-dimensional mapping platform.

Cygnus is scheduled to dock with the orbital laboratory on Wednesday morning.

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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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