Cygnus NG-13

NG-13
	Canadarm2 grapples the S.S. Robert H. Lawrence
Names	CRS NG-13; CRS OA-13 (2016–2018)
Mission type	ISS resupply
Operator	Northrop Grumman
COSPAR ID	2020-011A
SATCAT no.	45175
Mission duration	103 days, 23 hours, 7 minutes
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft	S.S. Robert H. Lawrence
Spacecraft type	Enhanced Cygnus
Manufacturer	Northrop Grumman; Thales Alenia Space ;
Payload mass	3,377 kilograms (7,445 lb)
Start of mission
Launch date	15 February 2020, 20:21:01 UTC (3:21:01 pm EST)
Rocket	Antares 230+
Launch site	MARS, Pad 0A
End of mission
Disposal	Deorbited
Decay date	29 May 2020, 19:29 UTC
Orbital parameters
Reference system	Geocentric orbit
Regime	Low Earth orbit
Inclination	51.66°
Berthing at ISS
Berthing port	Unity nadir
RMS capture	18 February 2020, 09:05 UTC
Berthing date	18 February 2020, 11:16 UTC
Unberthing date	11 May 2020, 13:00 UTC
RMS release	11 May 2020, 16:09 UTC
Time berthed	83 days, 1 hour, 44 minutes
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Last updated September 06, 2024

NG-13, previously known as OA-13, was the fourteenth flight of the Northrop Grumman robotic resupply spacecraft Cygnus and its thirteenth flight to the International Space Station (ISS) under the Commercial Resupply Services (CRS-1) contract with NASA.^[4]^[5] The mission launched on 15 February 2020 at 20:21:01 UTC after nearly a week of delays.^[6] This is the second launch of Cygnus under the CRS-2 contract.^[7]

Orbital ATK and NASA jointly developed a new space transportation system to provide commercial cargo resupply services to the International Space Station (ISS). Under the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program, then Orbital Sciences designed and built Antares, a medium-class launch vehicle, with Ukrainian specialists providing first stage structure.^[8]

Cygnus, an advanced maneuvered spacecraft, mates a Pressurized Cargo Module, provided by Orbital's industrial partner Thales Alenia Space, with their GEOStar satellite bus.^[9] Northrop Grumman purchased Orbital in June 2018; its ATK division was renamed Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems.^[10]

History

Cygnus NG-13 is the second Cygnus mission under Commercial Resupply Services-2.

Production and integration of Cygnus spacecraft are performed in Dulles, Virginia. The Cygnus service module is mated with the pressurized cargo module at the launch site, and mission operations are conducted from control centers in Dulles, Virginia and Houston, Texas.^[9]

The original launch attempt on 9 February 2020 was scheduled to launch at 22:39:30 UTC before being pushed to the end of its five-minute window at 22:44:29 UTC, only to end up being scrubbed due to a technical issue with a regulator at the launch pad with three minutes left in the countdown.^[11] The second launch attempt on 14 February 2020 at 20:43:34 UTC was scrubbed due to strong upper winds with less than ninety minutes left in the countdown. Cygnus NG-13 was launched successfully on 15 February 2020 at 20:21:01 UTC.

Launch and early operations

After Northrop Grumman purchased Orbital ATK in June 2018, the mission was changed from OA-13 to NG-13. The Antares rocket was built and processed in the Horizontal Integration Facility over the course of six months. The rocket was rolled out to MARS Pad 0A where it was originally planned to launch 9 February 2020 but was scrubbed and delayed due to inclement weather and an issue with a regulator at the launch pad. The mission launched successfully on the 15 February 2020 at 20:21:01 UTC with no delay and no apparent problems. The Cygnus spacecraft arrived at the space station on 18 February 2020 at 09:05 UTC. Expedition 62 astronaut Andrew Morgan grappled the spacecraft using the station's robotic arm. After Cygnus capture, ground controllers commanded the station's arm to rotate and install Cygnus on the Earth-facing port of the station's Unity module at 11:16 UTC. The Cygnus spacecraft remained at the space station until 11 May 2020. The Saffire-IV experiment was conducted within Cygnus after it departs the station, and prior to deorbit, when it disposed of several tons of trash during reentry into Earth's atmosphere, over the Pacific Ocean, on 29 May 2020.^[1]

Launch attempt summary

Note: Times are local to the launch site (Eastern Daylight Time).

Attempt	Planned	Result	Turnaround	Reason	Decision point	Weather go (%)	Notes
1	9 Feb 2020, 5:44:29 pm	Scrubbed	—	Technical	9 Feb 2020, 5:41 pm	100	Scrubbed due to off-nominal data from ground support.
2	13 Feb 2020, 4:06:03 pm	Scrubbed	3 days 22 hours 22 minutes	Weather	11 Feb 2020, 11:50 am	45	Concerns over bad weather.
3	14 Feb 2020, 3:43:34 pm	Scrubbed	0 days 23 hours 38 minutes	Weather	14 Feb 2020, 2:07 pm	90	Concerns over high speed upper-level winds.
4	15 Feb 2020, 3:21:01 pm	Success	0 days 23 hours 37 minutes			85

Spacecraft

This is the tenth flight of the Enhanced-sized Cygnus PCM.^[12] This Cygnus spacecraft is named to honor Robert H. Lawrence.^[13]

Manifest

The Cygnus spacecraft was loaded with 3,377 kilograms (7,445 lb) of pressurized cargo with packaging, broken down as follows:^[14]

Vehicle hardware: 1,588 kg (3,501 lb)
Science investigations: 966 kg (2,129 lb)
Crew supplies: 712 kg (1,570 lb)
Spacewalk equipment: 81 kg (179 lb)
Computer resources: 30 kg (66 lb)

Hardware

NASA provided the following breakdown of the cargo's hardware for ISS:^[14]

Columbus Ka-band Terminal (COLKa) Assembly: module enhancement hardware to upgrade the communications capability in Columbus science module
Major Constituents Analyzer (MCA) Mass Spectrometer: critical spare to support laboratories and connecting module operations of the MCAs to detect atmospheric constituents on board the space station
External High Definition Camera (EHDC) Assembly: major camera assembly spare that will replace a failed camera on-orbit during a spring 2020 EVA
Water Stowage System (WSS) Resupply Tanks (RST): nine water tanks to support crew and hardware requirements during the 2020 timeframe
Nitrogen/Oxygen Recharge System (NORS) Tanks: two recharge tanks to replenish on-orbit oxygen to be utilized in upcoming spacewalks, and one air tank to support the Commercial Crew Vehicle (CCV) Emergency Breathing Air Assembly (CEBAA) hardware launching in 2020
POLAR Flight Assembly: cold stowage capability to support payload transportation to the ISS

Research

The new experiments arriving at the orbiting laboratory will challenge and inspire future scientists and explorers, and provide valuable insight for researchers. Experiments will test new facilities for microscopic viewing and cell culturing, and particle identification will seek to better understand how fire spreads in microgravity and will study how bacteriophages behave in space. The Saffire-IV experiment will occur after Cygnus leaves the ISS.^[14]

Mobile SpaceLab, a tissue and cell culturing facility that offers investigators a quick-turnaround platform to perform sophisticated microgravity biology experiments. This will be mounted in a designated EXPRESS rack on ISS ^[15]
Mochii, initial demonstration of a new miniature scanning electron microscope (SEM) with spectroscopy
Spacecraft Fire Experiment-IV (Saffire-IV), fourth in a series of experiments on fire and combustibles ^[15]
OsteoOmics examines osteoblast cells at a molecular level to better understand bone loss ^[15]
Phage Evolution studies the effects of microgravity and radiation exposure on bacteriophages and their hosts

Cubesats

Cubesats planned for release: Red-Eye 2, DeMI, TechEdSat 10.^[16] A CubeSat payload for the communications provider Lynk (2020-011D) was ejected from the Slingshot deployer on Cygnus on 13 May 2020 at 23:25 UTC. Another payload (another Lynk, or perhaps WIDAR) remained attached to Cygnus and deployed a communications antenna. The payloads were launched aboard SpaceX CRS-20 and installed on the Cygnus hatch by the ISS crew.^[2] The Cygnus host a NASA combustion experiment inside its pressurized cabin before Northrop Grumman controllers command the spacecraft to a destructive re-entry over the South Pacific Ocean on 29 May 2020.^[3]

Disposal

Cygnus NG-13 is another test of the Cygnus External Payload Carrier. Europe's HDEV experiment which has provided outstanding views of the Earth would return home on Cygnus NG-13.

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Cygnus NG-19</span> Late 2023 cargo spacecraft mission to ISS

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[nsf-20180601-7] Gebhardt, Chris (1 June 2018). "Orbital ATK looks ahead to CRS-2 Cygnus flights, Antares on the commercial market". NASASpaceflight.com. Retrieved 2 June 2018.

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v t e Cygnus spacecraft
COTS CRS Uncrewed spaceflights to the ISS
Launch vehicles	Antares Atlas V Falcon 9 Block 5
Operators	Orbital Orbital ATK Northrop Grumman
Past missions	Test flight (Apr 2013) Orb-D1 (Sep 2013) Orb-1 (Jan 2014) Orb-2 (Jul 2014) Orb-3† (Oct 2014) OA-4 (Dec 2015) OA-6 (Mar 2016) OA-5 (Oct 2016) OA-7 (Apr 2017) OA-8E (Nov 2017) OA-9E (May 2018) NG-10 (Nov 2018) NG-11 (Apr 2019) NG-12 (Nov 2019) NG-13 (Feb 2020) NG-14 (Oct 2020) NG-15 (Feb 2021) NG-16 (Aug 2021) NG-17 (Feb 2022) NG-18 (Nov 2022) NG-19 (Aug 2023) NG-20 (Jan 2024)
Current missions	NG-21 (Aug 2024)
Future missions	NG-22 (Feb 2025) NG-23 (Jun 2025) NG-24 (Jan 2026) NG-25 (Late 2026)
Signs † indicate launch failures.

v t e Uncrewed spaceflights to the International Space Station
See also: {{ Crewed ISS flights }} {{ ISS expeditions }}
2000–2004	2000 2R / Zvezda 1P 2P 3P 2001 4P 5P SO1 / Pirs 6P 2002 7P 8P 9P 2003 10P 11P 12P 2004 13P 14P 15P 16P
2005–2009	2005 17P 18P 19P 20P 2006 21P 22P 23P 2007 24P 25P 26P 27P 2008 28P ATV-1 29P 30P 31P 2009 32P 33P 34P HTV-1 35P MIM2 / Poisk
2010–2014	2010 36P 37P 38P 39P 40P 2011 HTV-2 41P ATV-2 42P 43P 44P† 45P 2012 46P ATV-3 47P SpX-D HTV-3 48P SpX-1 49P 2013 50P SpX-2 51P ATV-4 52P HTV-4 Orb-D1 53P 2014 Orb-1 54P 55P SpX-3 Orb-2 56P ATV-5 SpX-4 Orb-3† 57P
2015–2019	2015 SpX-5 58P SpX-6 59P† SpX-7† 60P HTV-5 61P OA-4 62P 2016 OA-6 63P SpX-8 64P SpX-9 OA-5 65P† HTV-6 2017 SpX-10 66P OA-7 SpX-11 67P SpX-12 68P OA-8E SpX-13 2018 69P SpX-14 OA-9E SpX-15 70P HTV-7 71P NG-10 SpX-16 2019 SpX-DM1 72P NG-11 SpX-17 SpX-18 73P 60S HTV-8 NG-12 SpX-19 74P Boe-OFT†
2020–2024	2020 NG-13 SpX-20 75P HTV-9 76P NG-14 SpX-21 2021 77P NG-15 SpX-22 78P Nauka NG-16 SpX-23 79P M-UM / Prichal SpX-24 2022 80P NG-17 Boe-OFT 2 81P SpX-25 82P NG-18 SpX-26 2023 83P SpX-27 84P SpX-28 NG-19 85P SpX-29 86P 2024 NG-20 87P SpX-30 88P NG-21 89P
Future	2024 SpX-31 90P 2025 SpX-32 NG-22 SNC Demo-1 HTV-X1 SNC-1 2030 ISS Deorbit Vehicle
Spacecraft	Roscosmos Progress ESA ATV (past) JAXA HTV NASA CRS SpaceX Dragon 1 (past) SpaceX Dragon 2 Northrop Grumman Cygnus Sierra Nevada Dream Chaser (future) ISS Deorbit Vehicle
Ongoing spaceflights in underline Future spaceflights in italics † - mission failed to reach ISS

v t e ← 2019 Orbital launches in 2020 2021 →
January	Starlink V1.0-L2 (60 satellites) TJS-5 Jilin-1 Kuanfu-01, ÑuSat 7, ÑuSat 8 Eutelsat Konnect, GSAT-30 Starlink V1.0-L3 (60 satellites) USA-294
February	OneWeb L2 (34 satellites) IGS-Optical 7 Solar Orbiter ( TechEdSat-10 ) Cygnus NG-13 Starlink V1.0-L4 (60 satellites) JCSAT-17 Meridian-M 9
March	SpaceX CRS-20 (Lynk 04) BeiDou-3 G2Q Kosmos 2545 / GLONASS-M 760 Starlink V1.0-L5 (60 satellites) OneWeb L3 (34 satellites) Yaogan 30-06 (3 satellites) USA-298 / AEHF-6
April	Soyuz MS-16 Noor Starlink V1.0-L6 (60 satellites) Progress MS-14
May	Chinese next-generation crewed spacecraft / Flexible Inflatable Cargo Return Module Xingyun-2 01, 02 X-37B OTV-6 / FalconSAT-8 HTV-9 EKS-4 LauncherOne†, Starshine 4† XJS-G, XJS-H Crew Dragon Demo-2
June	Starlink 7 (60 satellites) Starlink 8 (58 satellites)
July	Gaofen DUOMO Flock-4e × 5† Shiyan 6-02 Ofek-16 Apstar 6D Jilin-1 Gaofen-02E† USA-305, USA-306, USA-307, USA-308 Emirates Mars Mission ANASIS-II Tianwen-1 (Zhurong) Progress MS-15 Ziyuan III-03 Mars 2020 (Perseverance, Ingenuity) Ekspress-80, Ekspress-103
August	Gaofen 9-04 Starlink V1.0-L9 (57 satellites), BlackSky Global 7, BlackSky Global 8 BSAT-4b, Galaxy 30, MEV-2 Starlink V1.0-L10 (58 satellites), SkySat × 3 Gaofen 9-05 SAOCOM 1B Capella 2, Photon First Light
September	ION-SCV 001 ( Flock-4v × 12), ÑuSat 6, UPM-Sat 2, Flock-4v × 14, Lemur-2 × 8, NAPA-1 , SpaceBEE × 12 Starlink V1.0-L11 (60 satellites) Chongfu Shiyong Shiyan Hangtian Qi Gaofen 11-02 Jilin-1 Gaofen-02C† Jilin-1 Gaofen-03B × 6, Jilin-1 Gaofen-03C × 3 HaiYang 2C Huanjing 2A, Huanjing 2B Gonets-M × 3, ICEYE X6, ICEYE X7, Kepler 4 , Kepler 5 , LacunaSat-3 , Lemur-2 × 4
October	Cygnus NG-14 ( Lemur-2 × 2, SPOC ) Starlink V1.0-L12 (60 satellites) Gaofen-13 Soyuz MS-17 Starlink V1.0-L13 (60 satellites) Starlink V1.0-L14 (60 satellites) Kosmos 2547 / GLONASS-K 15L Yaogan 30-07 (3 satellites) Flock-4e' × 9
November	USA-309 / GPS IIIA-04 ÑuSat × 10 EOS-01 / RISAT-2BR2, KSM × 4, Lemur-2 × 4 Tiantong-1 02 USA-310 / NROL-101 SpaceX Crew-1 SEOSat-Ingenio†, TARANIS† Landmapper-BC 5 , SpaceBEE × 18 Sentinel-6 Chang'e 5 Starlink V1.0 L15 (60 satellites)
December	Gonets-M × 3, Kosmos 2548 / ERA-1 Gaofen 14 SpaceX CRS-21 (Nanoracks Bishop Airlock) GECAM A, GECAM B USA-311 / Orion 10 SXM-7 CMS-01 / GSAR-12R OneWeb L4 (36 satellites) USA-312, USA-313 Yaogan 33 CSO-2
Launches are separated by dots ( • ), payloads by commas ( , ), multiple names for the same satellite by slashes ( / ). Crewed flights are underlined. Launch failures are marked with the † sign. Payloads deployed from other spacecraft are (enclosed in parentheses).

Spacecraft properties
Canadarm2 grapples the S.S. Robert H. Lawrence
Names	CRS NG-13 CRS OA-13 (2016–2018)

Mission type	ISS resupply
Operator	Northrop Grumman
COSPAR ID	2020-011A
SATCAT no.	45175
Mission duration	103 days, 23 hours, 7 minutes


Spacecraft	S.S. Robert H. Lawrence
Spacecraft type	Enhanced Cygnus
Manufacturer	Northrop Grumman Thales Alenia Space
Payload mass	3,377 kilograms (7,445 lb)


Start of mission
Launch date	15 February 2020, 20:21:01 (15 February 2020, 20:21:01) UTC (3:21:01 pm EST)
Rocket	Antares 230+
Launch site	MARS, Pad 0A


End of mission
Disposal	Deorbited
Decay date	29 May 2020, 19:29 (29 May 2020, 19:29) UTC


Orbital parameters
Reference system	Geocentric orbit
Regime	Low Earth orbit
Inclination	51.66°


Berthing at ISS
Berthing port	Unity nadir ^[1]
RMS capture	18 February 2020, 09:05 UTC
Berthing date	18 February 2020, 11:16 UTC
Unberthing date	11 May 2020, 13:00 UTC^[2]
RMS release	11 May 2020, 16:09 UTC^[3]
Time berthed	83 days, 1 hour, 44 minutes

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