Cygnus CRS OA-9E S. S. J. R. Thompson
Cygnus delivered HaloSat — a wide-field soft X-ray observatory built to survey the diffuse Galactic halo and characterize the hot baryons surrounding the Milky Way — to the ISS for deployment from the NanoRacks dispenser. RainCube, a Ka-band precipitation radar in a 6U bus, also flew on this mission and validated cubesat-scale weather radar.
LIFTOFF
MAY 21 2018launched from LP-0A MARS
aboard Antares 230 / Castor 30XL into LEO
Spacecraft
Cygnus Enhanced S. S. J. R. Thompson
Space station resupply
Payloads · 12
- 01
Aerocube 12A
Technology demonstration
- 02
Aerocube 12B
Technology demonstration
- 03
CubeRRT
Technology demonstration
- 04
EnduroSat One
Technology demonstration
- 05
EQUiSat
Technology demonstration
- 06
HaloSat
Astronomy
- 07
Lemur-2 x 4
Earth observation
- 08
MemSat
Technology demonstration
- 09
Radix
Technology demonstration
- 10
RadSat-g
Technology demonstration
- 11
RainCube
Technology demonstration
- 12
TEMPEST-D
Technology demonstration