launched fromUSA
Cygnus CRS OA-5
Success
OCT 17201623:45:00 UTCReturn-to-flight for Antares after the Orb-3 pad explosion two years earlier, now in the new Antares 230 configuration with factory-fresh Russian RD-181 main engines replacing the AJ-26 derivatives implicated in the Orb-3 failure. The Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport's Pad 0A had been rebuilt during the gap.
LIFTOFF
OCT 17 201623:45:00 UTC
Success
launched fromMARS
aboardAntares 230intoLEO
Payloads · 2
- 01
Cygnus CRS OA-5
ISS logistics
- 02
Lemur-2 x 4
Earth observation
