Antares lofts ORB-2 Cygnus on a path to the ISS

Orbital Sciences launched an Antares rocket with their third Cygnus spacecraft Sunday afternoon, beginning a commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station. The rocket launched at the end of a very smooth countdown at 12:52 local time (16:52 UTC) from Pad 0A at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport. Cygnus was developed by Orbital Sciences Corporation under NASA’s Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program, under which it made its first flight last September. Following this successful demonstration mission Orbital began fulfilling the launches they were awarded under a Commercial Resupply Services contract signed in 2008. More

(Source: NASASpaceFlight.com - Jul 13)