NG-17 Antares launches S.S. Piers Sellers Cygnus

A Northrop Grumman Antares 230 rocket launched the CRS-17 Cygnus spacecraft, dubbed “S.S. Piers Sellers”, from MARS Pad 0A, at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Virginia, on 19 February 2022, at 17:40 UTC (12:40 EST). For NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services-2 (CRS-2) NG-17 mission, Cygnus delivers approximately 3765 kg (8,300 pounds) of research, crew supplies, and hardware to the International Space Station and is scheduled to arrive on 21 February 2022. The NG-17 Cygnus Cargo Delivery Spacecraft is named in honor of the late NASA astronaut Piers Sellers. Credit: Northrop Grumman/NASA #Antares #Cygnus