Well folks, here we are! The first launch of Cygnus on Falcon 9!

Scheduled for (UTC) 2024-01-30, 17:07
Scheduled for (local) 2024-01-30, 12:07 (EST)
Mission CRS NG-20
Launch site SLC-40, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA.
Booster B1077-10
Landing LZ-1
Payload spacecraft Cygnus
Customer Northrop Grumman / NASA
Mission success criteria Successful launch and docking to the ISS

Webcasts

Stream Link
Space Affairs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZwX1CfFLtA
NASA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mp1rp5R4Q1U
NASASpaceflight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyaI5LR150w
Spaceflight Now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W08HLn1Owgk
The Launch Pad
Everyday Astronaut https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IonNr5iLjH4
SpaceX https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1752373649007604021#m
The Space Devs TBD

Stats

Sourced from NextSpaceflight and r/SpaceX:

☑️ 4th launch from SLC-40 this year

☑️ 15 days, 15:15:00 turnaround for this pad

☑️ 10th Falcon 9 launch this year, 296th Falcon 9 mission overall

☑️ 35th landing on LZ-1

☑️ 223rd consecutive successful Falcon 9 launch (excluding Amos-6) (if successful)

☑️ 270th Falcon Family Booster landing, 280th Falcon recovery attempt

☑️ 10th SpaceX launch this year

☑️ 310th SpaceX mission overall (excluding Starship hops)

☑️ 322nd SpaceX launch overall (including Starship hops)

Mission info

This will be the first of three Cygnus missions to fly aboard Falcon 9 for Northrop Grumman to fulfill its cargo delivery contract while the new Antares 330 is under development.

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    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

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    CRS Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA
    MECO Main Engine Cut-Off
    ~ MainEngineCutOff podcast
    NG New Glenn, two/three-stage orbital vehicle by Blue Origin
    ~ Natural Gas (as opposed to pure methane)
    ~ Northrop Grumman, aerospace manufacturer

    2 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 8 acronyms.

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