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Cygnus launch to ISS at 01.40BST.

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  • 18-10-2016 12:10am
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    irishgeo
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    Cygnus to ISS launch, now live on Nasa TV about 30mins to lift off of the Antares rocket Cygnus. The last Antares rocket blew up on take off.

    I can't sleep so I'll be tuning in.


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    Capt'n Midnight
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    Busy week in space all right,

    Chinese up in their mini-space station

    Soyuz on a trip to the ISS
    http://russianspaceweb.com/soyuz-ms-02.html#launch

    Fingers crossed on Mars


    And US tax dollars at work :)
    http://russianspaceweb.com/antares.html
    Formerly known as Taurus-2, the Antares rocket is officially an American space launcher developed by the Virginia-based Orbital Sciences Corporation, OSC, (now known as Orbital ATK). However, in reality, Orbital outsourced the production of the rocket's booster stage to Ukraine and ordered its main engines in Russia. In a bizarre irony of the post-Cold War politics, Ukraine and Russia continued building the rocket for the US, even as the two former Soviet republics essentially went to war with each other in 2014.


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