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According to Motherboard:

- A pea growing experiment from students in Houston

- A human health study investigating blood flow to and from the brain in space

- 19 student projects from New Jersey

- A reentry breakup recorder

- A meteor dust analyser

- 1,360 pounds of food

- Spacewalk equipment

- Flight crew equipment

- Fight procedures books

- Computers

- Classified "Crypto equipment"

Source: https://twitter.com/motherboard/status/527235620578787328/ph...

The students from Houston and New Jersey must have been so disappointed. I really hope that they get another chance to send their projects to space before they graduate, and that some of them will eventually take up a career in rocket science despite this minor setback.

> - A reentry breakup recorder

Right, there was to be a video recording of the Cygnus spacecraft as it reentered and broke up (it's designed to disintegrate). Kind of ironic now.

I wonder if it could have survived the explosion. I suppose it would not have been activated for launch though.

Also 26 satellites from Planet Labs

https://www.planet.com/pulse/space-is-hard/

Nothing out of the ordinary for the ISS, as far as I know. However, it was carrying the Arkyd-3 test platform satellite, which is a bit of a bummer.