Orbital ATK is the prime contractor and developer of the Cygnus spacecraft, providing logistics support to the International Space Station (ISS) under NASA’s Cargo Resupply Service (CRS) contract, including commercial and science payloads Cygnus is an advanced maneuvering spacecraft, incorporating elements drawn from Orbital ATK and its partners’ existing, flight-proven spacecraft technologies It is a semi-autonomous delivery system for pressurized and unpressurized payloads and cargo, that meets NASA’s human spaceflight rated vehicle requirements. The Cygnus system is a flight-proven, low-risk design with seven highly successful flights to dat
