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Forum: Commercial Space - Military Space
Topic: Orbital Sciences Antares-Cygus COTS demo flight

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Message to Edit: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	Originally posted by Robert Pearlman on 09-22-2013 09:26 AM Orbital Sciences update <blockquote><font size="+0">[b]Next rendezvous attempt early Tuesday morning[/b]</font> <div align="justify">Following the discovery of a data format discrepancy between an on-board International Space Station (ISS) navigation system and a similar system on Cygnus at around 1:30 a.m. EDT (0530 GMT) Sunday morning (Sept. 22), today's rendezvous with the station was postponed. At this time, NASA and Orbital are developing a detailed plan for a second rendezvous attempt early Tuesday morning. A software update has been developed and will be tested on a ground-based simulator during the day on Sunday. Upload to Cygnus and in-orbit testing of the software "patch" is planned for Sunday night and into Monday morning. Once this has been accomplished and verified, the current plan is for Cygnus to begin a second rendezvous approach late Monday night, with final approach to the ISS and grapple taking place early Tuesday morning. The Cygnus spacecraft remains healthy, with all major subsystems operating as expected.</div></BLOCKQUOTE>
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