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Cygnus Departs Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility

Cygnus Departs Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility
Cygnus Departs Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility

Encapsulated inside its payload fairing, the Cygnus spacecraft for the upcoming Orbital ATK Commercial Resupply Services-6 mission departs the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Mounted atop a KAMAG transporter, Cygnus is being moved to Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station where it will be mounted atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.

Photo credit: NASA/Dimitrios Gerondidakis