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Work is ongoing to either enable Orbital Sciences Corp. to launch its Antares rocket and the Cygnus cargo craft from the Wallops Flight Facility, Va. on Thursday night (Dec. 19) at 9:19 p.m. EST on its first resupply mission to the space station, or for space station astronauts to mount a suite of spacewalks to replace a faulty coolant pump. The space station program continues to keep both options on the table pending further engineering analysis and troubleshooting efforts on the station's cooling system. While the engineering work on the station's cooling loop continued, technicians at Wallops prepared to load time-critical science cargo in the Cygnus spacecraft Sunday afternoon to preserve several days of launch opportunities beginning Thursday night. The current schedule calls for the vehicle fairing to be installed on the Antares upper stage around Cygnus on Monday. The Antares rocket and attached Cygnus are scheduled to rollout to the launch pad at Wallops in the early hours on Tuesday.
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