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Launch of the Cygnus spacecraft scheduled on January 7

Wallops, USA - The liftoff had been delayed due to the glitch aborad the Space Station

The launch of an Antares rocket carrying Orbital’s Cygnus cargo logistics spacecraft has been rescheudled to occur on January 7 at 1:55 pm local time (6:55 pm GMT/UTC) from Pad-0A at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at Wallops Island, Virginia. The liftoff was initially scheduled on December 17, but has been delayed because of the glitch to a pump in one of the two cooling loops of the International S...

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Rome, Italy, 12/31/2013 12:27
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