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Cygnus NG-20, the Glossary

NG-20 was the twentieth flight of the Cygnus, an expendable American cargo spacecraft used for International Space Station (ISS) logistics missions that launched on 30 January 2024 and was deorbited on 13 July 2024.^[1]

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Cygnus (spacecraft)
Spacecraft launched by Antares rockets

Antares (rocket)

The NASA COTS award was for and Orbital Sciences expected to invest an additional $150 million, split between $130 million for the booster and $20 million for the spacecraft.

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Atlas V

Atlas V is an expendable launch system and the fifth major version in the Atlas launch vehicle family.

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Cape Canaveral Space Force Station

Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS) is an installation of the United States Space Force's Space Launch Delta 45, located on Cape Canaveral in Brevard County, Florida.

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Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40

Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40), sometimes pronounced Slick Forty and previously Launch Complex 40 (LC-40) is a launch pad for rockets located at the north end of Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.

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Commercial Orbital Transportation Services

Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) was a NASA program to spur the development of private spacecraft and launch vehicles for deliveries to the International Space Station (ISS).

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Commercial Resupply Services

Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) are a series of flights awarded by NASA for the delivery of cargo and supplies to the International Space Station (ISS) on commercially operated spacecraft.

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Coordinated Universal Time

Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is the primary time standard globally used to regulate clocks and time.

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Cygnus (spacecraft)

Cygnus is an expendable American cargo spacecraft used for International Space Station (ISS) logistics missions. Cygnus NG-20 and Cygnus (spacecraft) are supply vehicles for the International Space Station.

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Cygnus NG-16

NG-16, previously known as OA-16, was the sixteenth flight of the Northrop Grumman robotic resupply spacecraft Cygnus and its fifteenth flight to the International Space Station (ISS) under the Commercial Resupply Services (CRS-2) contract with NASA. Cygnus NG-20 and Cygnus NG-16 are Cygnus (spacecraft), spacecraft launched by Antares rockets and supply vehicles for the International Space Station.

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Cygnus NG-19

NG-19 was the nineteenth flight of the Northrop Grumman robotic resupply spacecraft Cygnus and its eighteenth flight to the International Space Station (ISS) under the Commercial Resupply Services (CRS-2) contract with NASA. Cygnus NG-20 and Cygnus NG-19 are Cygnus (spacecraft) and supply vehicles for the International Space Station.

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Cygnus NG-21

NG-21 is the twenty-first planned flight of the Cygnus, an expendable American cargo spacecraft used for International Space Station (ISS) logistics missions, planned to launch on 3 August 2024. Cygnus NG-20 and Cygnus NG-21 are Cygnus (spacecraft), spacecraft launched by Antares rockets and supply vehicles for the International Space Station.

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Dulles, Virginia

Dulles is an unincorporated area in Loudoun County, Virginia, United States, and is part of the Washington metropolitan area.

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Eastern Time Zone

The Eastern Time Zone (ET) is a time zone encompassing part or all of 23 states in the eastern part of the United States, parts of eastern Canada, and the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico.

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Expendable launch system

An expendable launch system (or expendable launch vehicle/ELV) is a launch vehicle that can be launched only once, after which its components are either destroyed during reentry or discarded in space.

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Falcon 9 Block 5

Falcon 9 Block 5 is a partially reusable, human-rated, two-stage-to-orbit, medium-lift launch vehicle designed and manufactured in the United States by SpaceX.

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Firefly Aerospace

Firefly Aerospace is an American private aerospace firm based in Cedar Park, Texas, that develops launch vehicles for commercial launches to orbit.

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Geocentric orbit

A geocentric orbit, Earth-centered orbit, or Earth orbit involves any object orbiting Earth, such as the Moon or artificial satellites.

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GEOStar

The GEOStar is a family of satellite buses designed and manufactured by Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems.

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Glenn Research Center

NASA John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field is a NASA center within the cities of Brook Park and Cleveland between Cleveland Hopkins International Airport and the Rocky River Reservation of Cleveland Metroparks, with a subsidiary facility in Sandusky, Ohio.

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Houston

Houston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and in the Southern United States.

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International Space Station

The International Space Station (ISS) is a large space station assembled and maintained in low Earth orbit by a collaboration of five space agencies and their contractors: NASA (United States), Roscosmos (Russia), ESA (Europe), JAXA (Japan), and CSA (Canada).

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Kennedy Space Center

The John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC, originally known as the NASA Launch Operations Center), located on Merritt Island, Florida, is one of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) ten field centers.

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Low Earth orbit

A low Earth orbit (LEO) is an orbit around Earth with a period of 128 minutes or less (making at least 11.25 orbits per day) and an eccentricity less than 0.25.

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Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport

The Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) is a commercial space launch facility located at the southern tip of NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island in Virginia, just east of the Delmarva Peninsula and south of Chincoteague, Virginia, United States.

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Multi-Purpose Logistics Module

A Multi-Purpose Logistics Module (MPLM) is a large pressurized container that was used on Space Shuttle missions to transfer cargo to and from the International Space Station (ISS). Cygnus NG-20 and Multi-Purpose Logistics Module are supply vehicles for the International Space Station.

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Nadir

The nadir is the direction pointing directly below a particular location; that is, it is one of two vertical directions at a specified location, orthogonal to a horizontal flat surface.

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NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research.

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Northrop Grumman

Northrop Grumman Corporation is an American multinational aerospace and defense company.

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Orbital ATK

Orbital ATK Inc. was an American aerospace manufacturer and defense industry company.

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Orbital Sciences Corporation

Orbital Sciences Corporation (commonly referred to as Orbital) was an American company specializing in the design, manufacture, and launch of small- and medium- class space and launch vehicle systems for commercial, military and other government customers.

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Patricia Robertson

Patricia Consolatrix Hilliard Robertson (March 12, 1963 – May 24, 2001) was an American physician and a NASA astronaut.

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Payload fairing

A payload fairing is a nose cone used to protect a spacecraft payload against the impact of dynamic pressure and aerodynamic heating during launch through an atmosphere.

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Russian invasion of Ukraine

On 24 February 2022, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which started in 2014.

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Satellite bus

A satellite bus (or spacecraft bus) is the main body and structural component of a satellite or spacecraft, in which the payload and all scientific instruments are held.

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Space logistics

Space logistics is "the theory and practice of driving space system design for operability and supportability, and of managing the flow of materiel, services, and information needed throughout a space system lifecycle." It includes terrestrial logistics in support of space travel, including any additional "design and development, acquisition, storage, movement, distribution, maintenance, evacuation, and disposition of space materiel", movement of people in space (both routine and for medical and other emergencies), and contracting and supplying any required support services for maintaining space travel.

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Space Shuttle

The Space Shuttle is a retired, partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated from 1981 to 2011 by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as part of the Space Shuttle program.

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SpaceNews

SpaceNews is a print and digital publication that covers business and political news in the space and satellite industry.

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SpaceX

Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, commonly referred to as SpaceX, is an American spacecraft manufacturer, launch service provider and satellite communications company headquartered in Hawthorne, California.

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SpaceX CRS-29

SpaceX CRS-29, also known as SpX-29, is a Commercial Resupply Service mission to the International Space Station (ISS) launched on 10 November 2023. Cygnus NG-20 and SpaceX CRS-29 are supply vehicles for the International Space Station.

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SpaceX CRS-30

SpaceX CRS-30, also known as SpX-30, is a Commercial Resupply Service mission to the International Space Station (ISS) launched on 21 March 2024. Cygnus NG-20 and SpaceX CRS-30 are supply vehicles for the International Space Station.

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Thales Alenia Space

Thales Alenia Space is a joint venture between the French technology corporation Thales Group (67%) and Italian defense conglomerate Leonardo (33%).

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Uncrewed spacecraft

Uncrewed spacecraft or robotic spacecraft are spacecraft without people on board.

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Uncrewed spaceflights to the International Space Station

Uncrewed spaceflights to the International Space Station (ISS) are made primarily to deliver cargo, however several Russian modules have also docked to the outpost following uncrewed launches. Cygnus NG-20 and uncrewed spaceflights to the International Space Station are supply vehicles for the International Space Station.

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Unity (ISS module)

The ''Unity'' module as seen in May 2011 The Unity connecting module, also known as Node 1, is the first U.S.-built component of the International Space Station (ISS).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cygnus_NG-20

Cygnus NG-20, the Glossary

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See also

Cygnus (spacecraft)

Spacecraft launched by Antares rockets

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