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NORTHROP GRUNorthrop Grumman↗

United StatesCargo mission

Earth orbit

Cygnus NG-13

Cygnus NG-13 is catalogued by GCAT as a human-spaceflight mission in the Cygnus program.

Mission imagery

The mission

Cygnus NG-13 is catalogued by GCAT as a human-spaceflight mission in the Cygnus program. This reconstructed record groups 1 GCAT payload or flight element under launch 2020-011; fields not present in GCAT are intentionally left unset.

Launch profile

The launch

Launch: 15 February 2020, 20:21:04 UTC
Launch location: Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, Wallops Island, Virginia
Launch vehicle: Antares 230+
Orbit: Lower low Earth orbit (inclined)

Trajectory

Mission timeline

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Mission outcome

Mission ended — Completed or retired

Operations concluded · 29 May 2020

Historical mission record

GCAT records the primary mission element as completed or no longer operational.

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Hardware

Spacecraft

Cargo spacecraft

Cygnus NG-13

GCAT program: Cygnus.

GCAT ID: S45175
Manufacturer: Northrop Grumman Space Systems Group (SSG)
Launch mass: 2,517 kg
Dimensions: 6.4 m long · 2.9 m diameter · 10.5 m span

Visual archive

Gallery

One image from Cygnus NG-13.

The Northrop Grumman (NG)-13 Cygnus vehicle (S.S. Robert Henry Lawrence Jr.) cargo craft is pictured in the grips of the Canadarm2 robotic arm shortly before its departure from the International Space Station (ISS) for a destructive re-entry over the South Pac — https://images.nasa.gov/details-iss063e010584 ( image link ) · Public domainSource ↗

Verification

Sources

GCAT psatcat payload catalogmachine-readable catalog
GCAT — General Catalog of Artificial Space Objectscatalog (CC BY 4.0)
Wikimedia Commons — Cygnus NG-13 with HDEV shortly before departure from ISS (ISS063E010584).jpgasset

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