Cygnus NG-17

NG-17, previously known as OA-17, was the seventeenth flight of the <a href="/facts/Northrop_Grumman/M6keKE1A">Northrop Grumman</a> <a href="/facts/Robotic_resupply_spacecraft/L8jVmKxl">robotic resupply spacecraft</a> <a href="/facts/Cygnus_(spacecraft)/8jFp6gs7">Cygnus</a> and its sixteenth flight to the <a href="/facts/International_Space_Station/VNPUBz9m">International Space Station</a> (ISS) under the <a href="/facts/Commercial_Resupply_Services/TahzTN1Y">Commercial Resupply Services</a> (CRS) contract with <a href="/facts/NASA/TIMCV0yV">NASA</a>. The mission launched on 19 February 2022 at 17:40:03 UTC. It was the sixth launch of Cygnus under the <a href="/facts/Commercial_Resupply_Services/TahzTN1Y">CRS-2 contract</a>.
<a href="/facts/Northrop_Grumman_Innovation_Systems/zwkJhWEe">Orbital ATK</a>’s space division (now part of Northrop Grumman Space Systems) and NASA jointly developed a new space transportation system to provide commercial cargo resupply services to the International Space Station (ISS). Under the <a href="/facts/Commercial_Orbital_Transportation_Services/wYMHLjrk">Commercial Orbital Transportation Services</a> (COTS) program, Orbital ATK designed, acquired, built, and assembled these components: <a href="/facts/Antares_(rocket)/bjaHqCmA">Antares</a>, a medium-class launch vehicle; <a href="/facts/Cygnus_(spacecraft)/8jFp6gs7">Cygnus</a>, an advanced spacecraft using a <a href="/facts/Leonardo_(ISS_module)/LTz8eFJB">Pressurized Cargo Module (PCM)</a> provided by industrial partner <a href="/facts/Thales_Alenia_Space/E7JMd8TL">Thales Alenia Space</a> and a Service Module based on the Orbital <a href="/facts/GEOStar/4fy1p401">GEOStar</a> <a href="/facts/Satellite_bus/UMlFYAUY">satellite bus</a>.

Cygnus NG-17 open-in-new

Cygnus NG-17