The launch, fitted with ATK Sygnus Orbital spacecraft, postponed due to bad weather conditions at the launch site located on Cape Canaveral, Florida.
The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket-successor of mighty used to put John Glenn in orbit in 1962-had never been used before on a mission to space station
This is heading for the international space station (ISS), where he will give a 3.5 kg of food, clothing, supplies and technology for science experiments. Orbital ATK rocket buying other companies, Atlas V, veterans for this supply mission.
A rocket the United Launch Alliance Atlas V launch effort ready for second launch complex 41at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Friday, December 4, 2015, in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Also aboard the two Microsoft HoloLens headset, which will provide the crew stations and viewers in the ground control centres-with enhanced digital images of any astronauts being viewed. Orbital's contract with ULA to use Atlas for two missions in order to resume flight operations as soon as possible after the accident
It would take about three days for the cargo to reach the ISS, so if the w
so if the weather allows the launch on Friday, astronauts on the ISS could expect their supply by Monday. A mission supplying Russia, in fact, scheduled before Christmas.
This is an important launch for the Orbital after the launch failed in October last year, when the Antares rocket exploded 15 minutes from launch, change the cargo into a ball of fire and damage the launchpad Wallops Island.
Orbital plans to launch another Atlas rocket with the United Launch Alliance in March, then returned to his own rocket flight to Antares from Virginia in May. The company's Falcon rocket ended up in the Atlantic at the end of June, along with a new docking port and everything else destined for the space station. It contains food, scientific equipment and some teeth like small cubesat middle school students.
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