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Launch Success
Liftoff Time (GMT)
03:05:00
Wednesday March 23, 2016
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The first stage shut down early, but the Centaur upper stage managed to compensate.
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.
Low Earth Orbit
1 Payload
3,513 kilograms
Agency
ULAPrice
$109.00 million
Rocket
Diameter: 3.81m
Height: 58.3m
Payload to Orbit
LEO: 9,797 kg
GTO: 4,750 kg
Liftoff Thrust
3,826 Kilonewtons
Fairing
Diameter: 4.2m
Height: 13.8m
Stages
2
62nd
Mission
2nd
Mission of 2016
106th
Mission
3rd
Mission of 2016
19th
Orbital launch attempt