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First Antares/Cygnus launch successful

Submit on Wednesday, September 18th, 2013 22:59

Rocket: Antares; Payload: Cygnus; Date: 18 September 2013, 1458 UTC; Launch site: Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, Wallops Island, USA. Following a 10-minute ascent, the Cygnus spacecraft was successfully deployed by the Antares upper stage and placed into its intended orbit of about 288 km x 256 km above the Earth, inclined at 51.6 degrees to the equator.

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