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Cygnus' launch postponed again due to the solar activity

Wallops, USA - Liftoff maybe rescheduled for Thursday 9

Today, Wednesday 8 December 2014, in the morning Orbital Sciences Corp. decided to scrub the launch attempt of the Antares rocket and the Cygnus cargo spacecraft on the company's first resupply mission to the International Space Station due to an unusually high level of space radiation that exceeded constraints imposed on Antares. The solar flux activity that occurred late yesterday afternoon resulted...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1157481
Rome, Italy, 01/08/2014 18:51
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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