Post-Launch Status of Orbital ATK Mission to Space Station

During a press briefing April 18, officials from NASA, Orbital ATK and United Launch Alliance provided a post-launch status of Orbital ATK’s seventh resupply mission to the International Space Station. Several hours earlier, Orbital ATK’s Cygnus cargo spacecraft was launched to the station from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, aboard a United Launch Alliance rocket. Cygnus is packed with 7,600 pounds of supplies and research for the crew aboard the orbiting laboratory.