launched from USA

Cygnus CRS OA-5

Success
OCT 17201623:45:00 UTC

Return-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.

launched from MARS

aboard Antares 230 / Castor 30XL into LEO

Spacecraft

Cygnus Enhanced

Space station resupply

Payload

Lemur-2 x 4

Earth observation

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