SS Kalpana Chawla Cygnus Spacecraft Launch From NASA's Wallops Flight Facility Scrubbed Minutes Ahead of Liftoff; Here's the Date And Time of the Next Launch Attempt
US Northrop Grumman's Cygnus spacecraft, named after astronaut Kalpana Chawla, was to be launched from the Flight Facility. It was carrying cargo and supplies to International Space Station.
Virginia, October 1: US Northrop Grumman's Cygnus spacecraft, named after astronaut Kalpana Chawla, was to be launched from the Flight Facility. It was carrying cargo and supplies to International Space Station. However, it was scrubbed about 2 minutes and 40 seconds before liftoff due to an unknown problem with a component of ground support equipment.
The Liftoff was scheduled from Pad 0A at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (controlled by NASA’s Wallops range) in Virginia on Thursday, 1 October at 21:38 EDT (Friday, 2 October at 01:38 UTC); however, an automatic abort at T-2 minutes 40 seconds due to an issue with a piece of Ground Support Equipment stopped the launch. US Spacecraft Named After Late Indian-American Astronaut Kalpana Chawla.
Launch from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility scrubbed:
Here's when the next launch attempt will be:
Kalpana Chawla began her career at NASA in 1988 as a powered-lift computational fluid dynamics researcher at the Ames Research Center in California. She lost her life during the STS-107 mission when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated upon reentering the Earth's atmosphere.
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