Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus spacecraft set up on the International Space Station is now full. Cygnus, carrying over 8,200 kilos of cargo and science experiments, launched atop the corporate’s Antares rocket at 8:31 p.m. EDT Tuesday, Aug. 1, from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. At 5:52 a.m., NASA astronaut Woody Hoburg, together with NASA astronaut Frank Rubio as backup, captured Cygnus utilizing the station’s Canadarm2 robotic arm.
Highlights of space station research facilitated by supply aboard this Cygnus are:
Cygnus will stay on the house station till October earlier than it departs for a damaging re-entry into Earth’s environment.
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