MISSION NAME
Cygnus CRS OA-7 (S.S. John Glenn)
Status
Success
DATE
18 APR 2017
LAUNCH PROVIDER
United Launch Alliance
Launch Pad
Space Launch Complex 41
Description
This is the eighth planned flight of the Orbital ATK's unmanned resupply spacecraft Cygnus and its seventh flight to the International Space Station under the Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA. Orbital ATK named the vehicle after astronaut John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth and pioneer of human spaceflight.
Atlas V 401
Rocket Description
An Atlas V with a 4 meter diameter fairing, no boosters and a single centaur upper stage engine.