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Commercial Resupply Services are contracts signed by NASA for the delivery of cargo to the International Space Station (ISS) by American commercial firms.[1] The contracts include a minimum of 12 missions for SpaceX and 8 missions for Orbital Sciences.[2]
The Dragon cargo capsule is launched by the Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Cape Canaveral, Florida.[3] The Cygnus cargo carrier will be launched by the Antares (aka Taurus II) rocket from Launch Pad 0B at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS), Wallops Island, Virginia.[4]