After Weeks of Delay, Orbital Cargo Launch Announced

After weeks of delay, a resupply mission headed to the International Space Station by the aerospace firm Orbital Sciences Corp. has received the launch date of Jan. 7. Originally planned for Dec. 18, the shipment of nearly 3,000 pounds of cargo was delayed after the pump module on one of the space station's two cooling loops shut down automatically after reaching its preset temperature limit Dec. 11. The malfunction never posed any immediate danger to the crew, but did result in the powering down of several non-critical systems. More

(Source: Nature World News - Dec 31)