LAUNCH CENTER

Success

Tue Apr 18 2017

United Launch Alliance

Cygnus CRS OA-7 (S.S. John Glenn)

Launch Successful

Launch Time

(3:11 PM UTC)

Launch Window Start

(3:11 PM UTC)

Launch Window End

(3:41 PM UTC)

Location

No Recovery Specified

Type

No Recovery Specified

Atlas V 401

An Atlas V with a 4 meter diameter fairing, no boosters and a single centaur upper stage engine.

Type: Resupply
This is the eighth planned flight of the Orbital ATK's unmanned resupply spacecraft Cygnus and its seventh flight to the International Space Station under the Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA. Orbital ATK named the vehicle after astronaut John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth and pioneer of human spaceflight.

Location

Cape Canaveral, FL, USA

Pad

Space Launch Complex 41