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| Presque sur herb ! - Photos : rke |
[Wallops, Virginia, April 17, 2019. English below] – Northrop Grumman a lancé une fusée Antares et le cargo Cygnus depuis la côte est de la Virginie mercredi, donnant le coup d'envoi d'un vol de deux jours vers la Station spatiale internationale, le deuxième des trois vols prévus en seulement trois semaines. Le décollage au Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport - MARS - à l'île Wallops de la NASA, en Virginie, a eu lieu comme prévu à 16 h 46 locale (22h46 Suisse).
NASA - Antares liftoff, my first images
[Wallops, Virginia, April 17, 2019] - Northrop Grumman has launched an Antares rocket and Cygnus supply ship from Virginia's eastern shore Wednesday, kicking off a two-day flight to the International Space Station, the second of three resupply flights planned in just three weeks. Liftoff from pad 0A at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport — MARS — at NASA's Wallops Island, Va., test facility came on time at 4:46 p.m. EDT (GMT-4), allowing the rocket to launch directly into the plane of the station's orbit — a requirement for rendezvous missions. The climb to space went smoothly and the 139-foot-tall Antares 230 rocket, powered by two Russian RD-181 first stage engines and a Northrop Grumman solid-propellant upper stage, put the Cygnus cargo ship into the planned preliminary orbit about nine minutes after liftoff.
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| After the liftoff. - Photos : rke |
