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Cygnus NG-21
Summer 2024 cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station. Cygnus NG-21 was launched on August 4, 2024 aboard a Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral & Kennedy. Latest status in GCAT: grappled by another object (Aug 6, 2024).
COSPAR 2024-139ANORAD 60378United States
Identity
- Name in GCAT
- S.S. Francis R. Scobee
- Common name
- Cygnus NG-21
- Payload designation
- Cygnus NG-21
- International designator
- 2024-139A
- NORAD catalog number
- 60378
- GCAT identifier
- S60378
- UN registration
- ST/SG/SER.E/1227
Mission
- Mission type
- Human spaceflight
- Use
- Commercial
- Program
- Cygnus
- Owner
- NGIS
- Country
- United States
- Builder
- Northrop Grumman Space Systems Group (SSG)
- Platform (bus)
- EPCM
Launch
- Date
- August 4, 2024 · 15:02 UTC
- Launch record
- 2024-139Success
- Rocket
- Falcon 9
- Spaceport
- Cape Canaveral & Kennedy · pad LC40
Orbit and fate
- Orbit class (GCAT)
- LLEO/I
- Perigee
- 238 km
- Apogee
- 253 km
- Inclination
- 51.65°
- Status
- Grappled by another object
- Status date
- August 6, 2024
- Last known active
- Mar 30, 2025
- End of operations
- Mar 30, 2025
Size
- Mass
- 2,474 kg
- Dry mass
- 2,474 kg
- Total mass with attached objects
- 8,050 kg
- Length
- 6.4 m
- Diameter
- 2.90 m
- Span
- 10.5 m
Source: GCAT payload, deep-space and lander catalogs, Jonathan C. McDowell (CC BY 4.0); Wikidata Q124358060 (CC0).