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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 09-23-2013 09:33 AM Orbital Sciences update <blockquote><font size="+0">[b]Cygnus berthing to wait for Soyuz docking[/b]</font> <div align="justify">Monday morning (Sept. 23), Orbital and NASA together decided to postpone the approach, rendezvous, grapple and berthing operations of the Cygnus cargo logistics spacecraft with the International Space Station until after the upcoming Soyuz crew operations are complete. The Soyuz crew is due to arrive at the ISS very late on Wednesday (Sept. 25). The earliest possible date for the next Cygnus approach and rendezvous with the ISS would be Saturday (Sept. 28). An exact schedule will be determined following the successful completion of Soyuz operations. Over the past 24 hours, the Orbital Sciences team developed and tested a software fix for the data format mismatch that necessitated a postponement of the first rendezvous operation that was scheduled for the early morning of Sept. 22. However, that process, together with the impending Soyuz operations, resulted in a tight schedule to the point that both Orbital and NASA felt it was the right decision to postpone the Cygnus approach and rendezvous until after Soyuz operations. "This new schedule will allow the Orbital operations team to carefully plan and be well-rested before restarting the critical final approach to the space station. Meanwhile, Cygnus has all the resources needed to remain in orbit for an extended period of time," said Mr. Frank Culbertson, Orbital's Executive Vice President and General Manager of its Advanced Programs Group.</div></BLOCKQUOTE>
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