Cygnus XL Cargo Craft Captured by Station Robotic Arm

At 7:24 a.m. EDT, NASA astronaut Jonny Kim, with help from NASA astronaut Zena Cardman, captured Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL spacecraft utilizing the Worldwide House Station’s Canadarm2 robotic arm.

Mission management at NASA’s Johnson House Heart in Houston will use the Canadarm2 to place the spacecraft to its set up orientation. It then will information Cygnus XL in for set up to the Unity module’s Earth-facing port.

NASA will present protection of the spacecraft’s set up at 9 a.m. on NASA+, Amazon Prime, and extra. Discover ways to watch NASA content material by means of quite a lot of platforms, together with social media.

NASA’s Northrop Grumman Industrial Resupply Providers 23 mission launched at 6:11 p.m. on Sept. 14 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from House Launch Advanced 40 at Cape Canaveral House Pressure Station in Florida, carrying greater than 11,000 kilos of scientific investigations and cargo to the orbiting laboratory.

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