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S.S. William C. McCool
2025 cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station. S.S. William C. McCool was launched on September 14, 2025 aboard a Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral & Kennedy. Latest status in GCAT: grappled by another object (Sep 18, 2025).
COSPAR 2025-208ANORAD 65616United States
Identity
- Name in GCAT
- S.S. William C. McCool
- Payload designation
- Cygnus NG-23
- International designator
- 2025-208A
- NORAD catalog number
- 65616
- GCAT identifier
- S65616
Mission
- Mission type
- Human spaceflight
- Use
- Commercial
- Program
- Cygnus
- Owner
- NGIS
- Country
- United States
- Builder
- Northrop Grumman Space Systems Group (SSG)
- Platform (bus)
- sPCM
Launch
- Date
- September 14, 2025 · 22:11 UTC
- Launch record
- 2025-208Success
- Rocket
- Falcon 9
- Spaceport
- Cape Canaveral & Kennedy · pad LC40
Orbit and fate
- Orbit class (GCAT)
- LLEO/I
- Perigee
- 242 km
- Apogee
- 245 km
- Inclination
- 51.65°
- Status
- Grappled by another object
- Status date
- September 18, 2025
- Last known active
- Mar 14, 2026
- End of operations
- Mar 14, 2026
Size
- Mass
- 3,290 kg
- Dry mass
- 3,290 kg
- Total mass with attached objects
- 10.2 t
- Length
- 7.9 m
- Diameter
- 3.00 m
- Span
- 10.5 m
Launched together
Source: GCAT payload, deep-space and lander catalogs, Jonathan C. McDowell (CC BY 4.0); Wikidata Q124544457 (CC0).