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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox spacecraft class Шаблон:Private spaceflight Cygnus is an expendable American cargo spacecraft developed by Orbital Sciences Corporation but manufactured and launched by Northrop Grumman Space Systems as part of NASA's Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) program. It is usually launched by Northrop Grumman's Antares rocket from the Wallops Flight Facility, although three flights were on ULA's Atlas V and three are planned for SpaceX's Falcon 9, in both cases launching from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. It transports supplies to the International Space Station (ISS) following the retirement of the American Space Shuttle. Since August 2000, ISS resupply missions have been regularly flown by the Russian Progress spacecraft, as well as by the European Automated Transfer Vehicle, and the Japanese H-II Transfer Vehicle. With the Cygnus spacecraft and the SpaceX Dragon, NASA seeks to increase its partnerships with domestic commercial aviation and aeronautics industry.[1]

Cygnus is the Latinized Greek word for swan and a northern constellation.

Development

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The NASA Administrator Charles Bolden (third from left) in front of the Cygnus spacecraft in May 2012.

With Rocketplane Kistler unable to meet funding obligations for its K-1 launch vehicle under the terms of the COTS agreement, NASA decided on 18 October 2007 to terminate its contract with Rocketplane Kistler and re-award its contract after a competition.[2] On 19 February 2008, NASA announced that it had chosen Orbital Sciences as the new winner.[3] On 23 December 2008, NASA awarded Orbital Sciences a $1.9 billion contract under the Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) program. Under this contract, Orbital Sciences agreed to deliver up to 20 tons of cargo to the ISS through 2016 in eight Cygnus spacecraft flights.[1]

By April 2010, Orbital had displayed a full-scale model of the Cygnus cargo delivery spacecraft at the National Space Symposium (NSS) in Colorado Springs, CO.[4]

Launched on an Antares (renamed from Taurus II) medium-class launch vehicle or Atlas V, the first Cygnus flight was originally planned to occur in December 2010.[5]·[6] The Cygnus demonstration mission was successfully launched on 18 September 2013.[7] On 12 January 2014, the first scheduled Cygnus resupply mission arrived at the space station; the capsule carried Christmas presents and fresh fruit for the astronauts. Its arrival was delayed, first by the need to repair the station, and then by frigid weather at the launch site and solar flares that forced postponements.[7]·[8]

With the December 2015 launch of Orb CRS-4 on Atlas V, the enhanced version of Cygnus made its debut. While it was planned from the beginning to fly on the fifth mission, the Orb CRS-3 failure and subsequent move to Atlas V meant a delay. However, lessons learned on packing and the extra capabilities of the Atlas allowed payload to be increased to Шаблон:Convert.[9]

Design

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A scale drawing of the Standard (left) and Enhanced (right) Cygnus.

The Cygnus spacecraft consists of two basic components: the Pressurized Cargo Module (PCM) and the Service Module (SM). The PCM is manufactured by Thales Alenia Space in Turin, (Italy). The first PCMs had an empty mass of Шаблон:Cvt [10] and a volume of Шаблон:Cvt.[11] The service module is built by Orbital ATK and is based on their GEOStar and LEOStar spacecraft buses as well as components from the development of the Dawn spacecraft. It has a gross mass of Шаблон:Cvt with propulsion provided by 32 monopropellant thrusters for attitude control. The SM also carries one BT-4 main engine [12] burning hypergolic propellants hydrazine and nitrogen tetroxide (the propellant mass is Шаблон:Cvt [13][14]). The service module is capable of producing up to 4 kW of electrical power via two gallium arsenide solar arrays.[11] On 12 November 2009, Dutch Space announced it would provide the solar arrays for the first Cygnus spacecraft.[15]

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The Standard Cygnus being unberthed from the Harmony module.

The fourth and all subsequent Cygnus spacecraft are the "Enhanced" variant, as the standard version has been retired.[16] These have a stretched Шаблон:Cvt empty weight PCM with interior volume increased by 50% to Шаблон:Cvt and the service module uses Orbital ATK Ultraflex solar arrays providing the same power as the previous arrays at a lower mass.[11]·[16] A new upper stage built by Orbital ATK, the Castor 30XL, is used together with the enhanced Cygnus. With a more powerful upper stage and lighter solar arrays, the Cygnus payload delivered to the ISS can be increased by Шаблон:Cvt.[17]

During nominal CRS missions, Cygnus maneuvers close to the International Space Station, where the Canadarm2 robotic arm grapples the spacecraft and berths it to a Common Berthing Mechanism on the Harmony module in a similar fashion to the Japanese H-II Transfer Vehicle and the retired SpaceX Dragon,[11] but not the other active American CRS Dragon 2 vehicle, which docks autonomously. For typical missions, Cygnus remains berthed for about 30 days.[18]·[19] Unlike Dragon 2 and the earlier Dragon, Cygnus does not provide cargo return capability. However, it can be loaded with obsolete equipment and trash for destructive reentry like the Russian Progress vehicles.[20]

An earlier proposed version of Cygnus would have replaced the PCM with the Unpressurized Cargo Module (UCM), based on NASA's ExPRESS Logistics Carrier, and would have been used to transport unpressurized cargo, such as ISS Orbital Replacement Units.[5]·[21] Another proposed variant would have replaced the PCM with the Return Cargo Module (RCM), which would have allowed Cygnus to return cargo to Earth.[5]·

In August 2023, Northrop Grumman announced a further enlarged Mission B version of Cygnus, with a Шаблон:Cvt stretch to the payload module and payload mass increased to Шаблон:Cvt. This version is expected to enter service with the NG-23 mission in 2025 (the first to use the new Antares 330 launch vehicle).[22]

Lunar Gateway module variant

In August 2019, NASA decided to sole source its design for the Minimal Habitation Module (Habitation and Logistics Outpost, or HALO) of the Lunar Gateway to Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems, which offered a minimalist Шаблон:Cvt by Шаблон:Cvt design based directly on the Enhanced Cygnus, as well as a larger Шаблон:Cvt by Шаблон:Cvt design[23][24] having radial docking ports, body-mounted radiators (BMRs), batteries and communications antennas added on the outside. Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems opted to build the minimalist design, which offered the advantage of component compatibility and expedited testing of life support systems on existing Cygnus spacecraft.[25][26] On 5 June 2020, NASA awarded Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems a $187 million contract to complete the preliminary design of HALO. NASA will sign a separate contract with Northrop for the fabrication of the HALO, and for integration with the Power and Propulsion Element (PPE), being built by Maxar.[25][26]

Missions

List includes only missions that have flown and six planned missions. Шаблон:Asof two missions are currently planned to be launched on the Falcon 9 rocket from SLC-40, and three from Wallops on an Antares 330. Cygnus is the only cargo freighter to launch on four different orbital launchers, that is, Antares 100 series, Atlas V, Antares 200 series and Falcon 9 Block 5 rockets.[27]

Each mission is named for a notable member of the Human spaceflight community, often but not exclusively former NASA astronauts. Шаблон:Import style

Cygnus spacecraft missions
# Mission Patch Payload Variant Launch date Rocket Payload mass Outcome Ref.
0 Cygnus Mass Simulator Cygnus Payload Simulator N.A. 21 April 2013, 21:00:00 UTC Antares 110 Шаблон:Success [28]·[29]
First Antares launch, demonstrated Antares's performance and capability to place its payload on a precise target orbit.[30]
1 Orb-D1
G. David Low 		Cygnus 1
Orbital Sciences COTS Demo Flight 		Standard 18 September 2013, 14:58:00 UTC Antares 110 Шаблон:Cvt Шаблон:Success [31]·[32]·[28]·[33]
First Cygnus mission, first mission to rendezvous with ISS, first mission to berth with ISS, second launch of Antares. Mission Directors: Mike Orlowski (lead) and Ken Peek. The rendezvous between the new Cygnus cargo freighter and the International Space Station was delayed due to a computer data link problem,[34] but the issue was resolved and berthing followed shortly thereafter.[35]
2 Orb-1
C. Gordon Fullerton 		Файл:Orbital Sciences CRS Flight 1 Patch.png Orbital-1 Standard 9 January 2014, 18:07:05 UTC Antares 120 Шаблон:Cvt Шаблон:Success [32]·[28]·[36]·[33]
First Commercial Resupply Service (CRS) mission for Cygnus, first Antares launch using the Castor 30B upperstage.
3 Orb-2
Janice E. Voss 		Файл:Orbital Sciences CRS Flight 2 Patch.png Orbital Sciences CRS Flight 2 Standard 13 July 2014, 16:52:14 UTC Antares 120 Шаблон:Cvt Шаблон:Success [28]·[33]
Second Commercial Resupply Service (CRS) mission for Cygnus.
4 Orb-3
Deke Slayton 		Файл:Orbital Sciences CRS Flight 3 Patch.png Orbital Sciences CRS Flight 3 Standard 28 October 2014, 22:22:38 UTC Antares 130 Шаблон:Cvt Шаблон:Failure [37]·[33]
First Antares launch to use Castor 30XL upperstage, delayed due to boat in launch safe zone. Second takeoff attempt suffered a catastrophic anomaly resulting in an explosion shortly after launch. Contents of the cargo included food and care packages for the crew, parts, experiments, and the Arkyd-3 Flight Test (Non-optical) Satellite from Planetary Resources.
5 OA-4
Deke Slayton II 		Файл:Orbital Sciences CRS Flight 4 Patch.png Orbital ATK CRS Flight 4 Enhanced 6 December 2015, 21:44:57 UTC Atlas V 401 Шаблон:Cvt Шаблон:Success [38]·[39]·[33]
First Enhanced Cygnus mission; Orbital Sciences contracted with United Launch Alliance to launch this Cygnus on an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
6 OA-6
Rick Husband 		Файл:Orbital Sciences CRS Flight 6 Patch.png Orbital ATK CRS Flight 6 Enhanced 23 March 2016, 03:05:52 UTC Atlas V 401 Шаблон:Cvt Шаблон:Success [38]·[40]·[39]·[41]·[33]
Second mission to fly on an Atlas V. Orbital Sciences had an option with United Launch Alliance to conduct a third Cygnus launch on an Atlas V rocket if necessary.
7 OA-5
Alan Poindexter 		Файл:Orbital Sciences CRS Flight 5 Patch.png Orbital ATK CRS Flight 5 Enhanced 17 October 2016, 23:45:36 UTC Antares 230 Шаблон:Cvt Шаблон:Success [42]·[43]·[44]
The Antares 230 rocket carrying Cygnus lifted off at 23:45:36 UTC, 17 October 2016. Successful rendezvous was achieved on 23 October 2016 at 14:53 UTC.
8 OA-7
John Glenn 		Файл:Orbital Sciences CRS Flight 7 Patch.svg Orbital ATK CRS Flight 7 Enhanced 18 April 2017, 15:11:26 UTC Atlas V 401 Шаблон:Cvt Шаблон:Success [45][46]·[40]·[39]·[41]·[33]
9 OA-8E
Gene Cernan 		Файл:Orbital Sciences CRS Flight 8E Patch.png Orbital ATK CRS Flight 8 Enhanced 12 November 2017, 12:19:51 UTC Antares 230 Шаблон:Cvt Шаблон:Success [47][46]·[40]·[39]·[41]
11 November 2017, launch was scrubbed just before launch when a general aviation aircraft entered the hazard zone and did not respond to calls.[48]
10 OA-9E
J.R. Thompson 		Файл:Orbital Sciences CRS Flight 9E Patch.png Orbital ATK CRS Flight 9 Enhanced 21 May 2018, 08:44:06 UTC Antares 230 Шаблон:Cvt Шаблон:Success [49][50]
It became the first time a commercial vehicle performed ISS reboosting when, at 20:25 UTC on July 10, 2018 , Cygnus’s main engine was fired for about 50 seconds. Although it was just a reboost test, it raised the altitude by about 295 feet, according to NASA.[51]
11 NG-10
John Young 		Файл:Cygnus NG-10 Patch.png Northrop Grumman CRS Flight 10 Enhanced 17 November 2018, 09:01:31 UTC Antares 230 Шаблон:Cvt Шаблон:Success [52]·[53]
12 NG-11
Roger Chaffee 		Файл:Cygnus NG-11 Patch.png Northrop Grumman CRS Flight 11 Enhanced 17 April 2019, 20:46:07 UTC Antares 230 Шаблон:Cvt Шаблон:Success [54]
13 NG-12
Alan Bean 		Файл:Cygnus NG-12 Patch.png Northrop Grumman CRS Flight 12 Enhanced 2 November 2019, 13:59:47 UTC Antares 230+ Шаблон:Cvt Шаблон:Success
14 NG-13
Robert H. Lawrence 		Файл:Cygnus NG-13 Patch.png Northrop Grumman CRS Flight 13 Enhanced 15 February 2020, 20:21:01 UTC Antares 230+ Шаблон:Cvt Шаблон:Success [55]
9 February 2020, launch was scrubbed due to a ground support issue.[56]
15 NG-14
Kalpana Chawla 		Файл:Cygnus NG-14 Patch.png Northrop Grumman CRS Flight 14 Enhanced 3 October 2020, 01:16:14 UTC Antares 230+ Шаблон:Cvt Шаблон:Success [57]
1 October 2020, launch delayed at 11:00 due to boat in range[58]

1 October 2020, launch was scrubbed due to a ground support issue[59]

16 NG-15
Katherine Johnson 		Файл:Cygnus NG-15 Patch.png Northrop Grumman CRS Flight 15 Enhanced 20 February 2021, 17:36:50 UTC Antares 230+ Шаблон:Cvt Шаблон:Success
17 NG-16
Ellison Onizuka 		Файл:Cygnus NG-16 Patch.png Northrop Grumman CRS Flight 16 Enhanced 10 August 2021, 22:01:05 UTC Antares 230+ Шаблон:Cvt Шаблон:Success [60]
18 NG-17
Piers Sellers 		Файл:Cygnus NG-17 Patch.png Northrop Grumman CRS Flight 17 Enhanced 19 February 2022, 17:40:03 UTC Antares 230+ Шаблон:Cvt Шаблон:Success
Performed the first operational limited reboost of ISS by a commercial vehicle on 25 June 2022 after it was aborted after few seconds on 20 June 2022.[61][62]
19 NG-18
Sally Ride 		Файл:Cygnus NG-18 Patch.png Northrop Grumman CRS Flight 18 Enhanced 7 November 2022, 10:32:42 UTC Antares 230+ Шаблон:Cvt Шаблон:Success [63][64][65]
6 November 2022, scrubbed due to fire alarm in mission control.[66]
20 NG-19
Laurel Clark 		Файл:Cygnus NG-19 Patch.png Northrop Grumman CRS Flight 19 Enhanced 2 August 2023, 00:31:14 UTC[64] Antares 230+ Шаблон:Cvt Шаблон:Success [67]
21 NG-20
Patricia “Patty” Hilliard Robertson 		Файл:Cygnus NG-20 Patch.png Northrop Grumman CRS Flight 20 Enhanced 30 January 2024[68] Falcon 9 Block 5 ♺, B1077.10 TBA TBA
Northrop Grummam contracted with SpaceX to launch this Cygnus on a Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
22 NG-21
TBA 		TBA Northrop Grumman CRS Flight 21 Enhanced March 2024[69] Falcon 9 Block 5 TBA TBA
23 NG-22
TBA 		TBA Northrop Grumman CRS Flight 22 Enhanced July 2024[70] Falcon 9 Block 5 TBA TBA
24 NG-23
TBA 		TBA Northrop Grumman CRS Flight 23 Enhanced June 2025[71] Antares 330 TBA TBA
First flight of the Antares 330.
25 NG-24
TBA 		TBA Northrop Grumman CRS Flight 24 Enhanced January 2026[72] Antares 330 TBA TBA
25 NG-25
TBA 		TBA Northrop Grumman CRS Flight 25 Enhanced 2026[73] Antares 330 TBA TBA

In March 2022, NASA ordered six additional flights, Cygnus NG-20 to NG-25, to resupply the ISS through 2026.[74]

See also

References

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