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Antares launches Cygnus vessel on Orb-1 mission to the ISS

Submit on Thursday, January 9th, 2014 22:59

Rocket: Antares; Payload: Cygnus/Orb-1; Date: 9 January 2014, 1807 UTC; Launch site: Wallops Flight Facility, 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 220 x 280 km above the Earth, inclined at 51.6 degrees to the equator.

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