Cygnus NG-14
Canadarm2 approaches the S.S. Kalpana Chawla | |
| Names | CRS NG-14 CRS OA-14 (2016–2018) |
|---|---|
| Mission type | ISS resupply |
| Operator | Northrop Grumman |
| COSPAR ID | 2020-069A |
| SATCAT no. | 46530 |
| Website | NG-14 |
| Mission duration | 115 days, 19 hours, 6 minutes |
| Spacecraft properties | |
| Spacecraft | S.S. Kalpana Chawla |
| Spacecraft type | Enhanced Cygnus |
| Manufacturer |
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| Launch mass | 7,919 kg (17,458 lb) |
| Payload mass | 3,551 kg (7,829 lb) |
| Start of mission | |
| Launch date | 3 October 2020, 01:16:14 UTC (9:16:14 pm EDT) |
| Rocket | Antares 230+ |
| Launch site | MARS, Pad 0A |
| End of mission | |
| Disposal | Deorbited |
| Decay date | 26 January 2021, 20:23 UTC |
| Orbital parameters | |
| Reference system | Geocentric orbit |
| Regime | Low Earth orbit |
| Inclination | 51.66° |
| Berthing at ISS | |
| Berthing port | Unity nadir |
| RMS capture | 5 October 2020, 09:32 UTC |
| Berthing date | 5 October 2020, 12:01 UTC |
| Unberthing date | 6 January 2021, 12:15 UTC |
| RMS release | 6 January 2021, 15:11 UTC |
| Time berthed | 93 days, 14 minutes |
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NG-14, previously known as OA-14, was the fifteenth flight of the Northrop Grumman robotic resupply spacecraft Cygnus and its fourteenth flight to the International Space Station under the Commercial Resupply Services (CRS-1) contract with NASA. The mission was launched on 3 October 2020, at 01:16:14 UTC.
Orbital ATK (now Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems) and NASA jointly developed a new space transportation system to provide commercial cargo resupply services to the International Space Station (ISS). Under the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program, Orbital ATK designed, acquired, built, and assembled these components: Antares, a medium-class launch vehicle; Cygnus, an advanced spacecraft using a Pressurized Cargo Module (PCM) provided by industrial partner Thales Alenia Space, Turin, Italy and a Service Module based on the Orbital Sciences' (headquartered at Dulles, Virginia) GEOStar satellite bus.