Northrop Grumman’s new Cygnus XL spacecraft has been put in to the Worldwide House Station. The mission is called NASA’s Northrop Grumman Industrial Resupply Providers 23, or Northrop Grumman CRS-23.
Crammed with greater than 11,000 kilos of analysis and provides, the Northrop Grumman Cygnus XL spacecraft, carried on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, launched at 6:11 p.m. EDT on Sept. 14, from House Launch Complicated 40 at Cape Canaveral House Power Station in Florida. This mission would be the first flight of the Cygnus XL, the bigger, extra cargo-capable model of the corporate’s solar-powered spacecraft.
Cygnus will stay on the area station till spring when it departs the orbiting laboratory at which level it is going to eliminate a number of thousand kilos of particles by means of its re-entry into Earth’s ambiance the place it is going to harmlessly deplete.
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