NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Success

CRS OA-6

Launch Time
Wed Mar 23, 2016 03:05 UTC

The first stage shut down early, but the Centaur upper stage managed to compensate.

Rocket

Atlas V 401
Image Credit: ULA
ULA
Status: Retired
Price: $109.0 million
Liftoff Thrust: 3,826 kN
Payload to LEO: 9,797 kg
Payload to GTO: 4,750 kg
Stages: 2
Strap-ons: 0
Rocket Height: 58.3 m
Fairing Diameter: 4.2 m
Fairing Height: 13.8 m

Mission Details

CRS OA-6

Cygnus CRS OA-6, also known as Orbital ATK CRS-6, is the sixth flight of the Orbital ATK unmanned resupply spacecraft Cygnus and its fifth flight to the International Space Station under the Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA.

CRS OA-6 was captured by RMS on 26/03/2016 at 10:51 UTC and berthed to the Nadir port of the Unity module of the International Space Station on 26/03/2016 at 14:52 UTC. Its stay on the ISS was 79 days. It was unberthed on 14/06/2016 at 11:43 UTC and released by RMS on 14/06/2016 at 13:30 UTC. It deorbited on 22/06/2016 at 13:29 UTC.

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 3,513.0 kg
Low Earth Orbit

Location

SLC-41, Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA

Stats

2016

19th orbital launch attempt

United Launch Alliance

106th mission
3rd mission of 2016
105th successful mission
101st consecutive successful mission

Atlas V

62nd mission
2nd mission of 2016
61st successful mission
52nd consecutive successful mission