NASA and Northrop Grumman are delaying the arrival of the Cygnus XL to the Worldwide Area Station as flight controllers consider an alternate burn plan for the resupply spacecraft. The Cygnus XL won’t arrive to the house station on Wednesday, Sept. 17, as initially deliberate, with a brand new arrival date and time below evaluate.
Early Tuesday morning, Cygnus XL’s essential engine stopped sooner than deliberate throughout two burns designed to lift the orbit of the spacecraft for rendezvous with the house station, the place it should ship 11,000 kilos of scientific investigations and cargo to the orbiting laboratory for NASA. All different Cygnus XL techniques are performing usually.
NASA astronaut Jonny Kim is scheduled to seize Cygnus XL utilizing the station’s Canadarm2 robotic arm with backup help from NASA astronaut Zena Cardman. After seize, the spacecraft shall be put in on the Unity module’s Earth-facing port and can stay on the house station till March 2026.
The spacecraft launched at 6:11 p.m. on Sept. 14 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Area Launch Advanced 40 at Cape Canaveral Area Drive Station in Florida. The mission is called NASA’s Northrop Grumman Business Resupply Companies 23, or Northrop Grumman CRS-23.
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