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Technology DemonstrationLEOCOSPAR 2013-016CLaunched 4/21/2013
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Mission & Launch
Launch Mission
Cygnus Mass Sim
Launch Vehicle
Antares 110
Launch Date
4/21/2013
Last Contact
4/27/2013
Orbit & Mass
Orbit Class
LEO
Altitude
226.5 km
Inclination
51.62 deg
Dry Mass
1 kg
Total Mass
1 kg
Payload Classification
Mission Type
Technology Demonstration
Payload Category
TECH
Payload Class
C
Organizations
Operator
NASA Ames Research Center
Manufacturer
NASA Ames Research Center
Registry
COSPAR ID
2013-016C
UN Registration
ST/SG/SER.E/725
Track
Mentions
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Soyuz MS-20 will be commanded by Russian cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin and will spend 12 days at the International Space Station.

PlanGeneralValue 3.5Sep 15, 2021Commercial spaceflight industry sees Inspiration4 as a pathfinder but not a model
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Jeanette Epps was scheduled to launch in mid-2018 on a Soyuz spacecraft with Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency and Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos.

PlanValue 4.0Aug 25, 2020NASA astronaut bumped from Soyuz flight added to Starliner mission

Alexander Kramer used one electric thruster and six magnetorquers for relative orientation with respect to the Earth’s magnetic field to perform the planned UWE-4 maneuvers.

CapabilityPlanValue 4.0Jul 22, 2020Miniature thruster propels single cubesat to lower orbit

Christina Koch, Luca Parmitano, and Russian cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov are scheduled to return to Earth around 2019-02-06, reducing the ISS crew size to three.

PlanGrowthValue 4.0Dec 5, 2019NASA faces spacewalk schedule crunch

Russian cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Skripochka are scheduled to carry out a spacewalk on 2019-10-31 on the International Space Station’s Russian segment.

PlanValue 4.0Oct 15, 2019NASA reshuffles spacewalk schedule after hardware failure

Alexander Skvortsov will board Soyuz MS-13 docked to the station’s Zvezda module on 2019-08-26 and manually dock Soyuz MS-13 to the Poisk module to free the Zvezda module’s port for a Soyuz MS-14 docking attempt.

PlanGeneralValue 4.0Aug 24, 2019Uncrewed Soyuz aborts ISS docking

The Netherlands Space Office and the China National Space Administration (CNSA) signed a cooperation agreement for the NCLE project in 2016 that elaborated a Memorandum of Understanding signed the previous year during a trade mission attended by Chinese President Xi Jinping and Dutch King Willem-Alexander.

RelationshipsValue 4.6May 20, 2018Ready to launch: Dutch radio antenna to depart for the moon on Chinese mission