launched fromUSA

Cygnus CRS OA-9E S. S. J. R. Thompson

Name: Cygnus CRS OA-9E S. S. J. R. Thompson
Start: 2018-05-21T08:44:00Z
Location: MARS

Success

MAY 21201808:44:00 UTC

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 2018

08:44:00 UTC

Success

launched fromLP-0AMARS

aboardAntares 230intoLEO

Payloads · 13

01
Cygnus CRS OA-9E S. S. J. R. Thompson
ISS logistics
02
Aerocube 12A
Technology demonstration
03
Aerocube 12B
Technology demonstration
04
CubeRRT
Technology demonstration
05
EnduroSat One
Technology demonstration
06
EQUiSat
Technology demonstration
07
HaloSat
X-ray astronomy
08
Lemur-2 x 4
Earth observation
09
MemSat
Technology demonstration
10
Radix
Technology demonstration
11
RadSat-g
Technology demonstration
12
RainCube
Technology demonstration
13
TEMPEST-D
Technology demonstration