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[b]Cygnus resupply mission to the International Space Station postponed[/b] [i]Next Launch Opportunity is No Earlier Than January 13[/i] Today (Dec. 17), at NASA's direction, Orbital Sciences Corporation has postponed the launch of its commercial cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) that was scheduled to occur on Dec. 19, 2013, while the space agency proceeds with a series of spacewalks to replace a faulty pump module on the ISS. The Antares rocket that is currently on the launch pad at Wallops Island, Va., will be returned to a horizontal position and transported back to the Horizontal Integration Facility (HIF). At the HIF, the Antares payload fairing will be removed to allow the Cygnus team to remove time-critical payloads for safekeeping until the next launch attempt, which will occur no earlier than Jan. 13, 2014.
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