NASA’s protection is underway for the set up of Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL spacecraft to the Worldwide House Station on NASA+, Amazon Prime, and extra. Discover ways to watch NASA content material by means of a wide range of platforms, together with social media.
At 7:24 a.m. EDT, NASA astronaut Jonny Kim, with NASA astronaut Zena Cardman performing as backup, captured the Cygnus XL spacecraft utilizing the Worldwide House Station’s Canadarm2 robotic arm.
The spacecraft is carrying greater than 11,000 kilos of scientific investigations and cargo to the orbiting laboratory. It launched at 6:11 p.m. EDT on Sept. 14 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from House Launch Advanced 40 at Cape Canaveral House Power Station in Florida.
Cygnus XL will stay on the area station till March 2026, when it’s going to depart and get rid of a number of thousand kilos of trash by burning up throughout re-entry into Earth’s ambiance.
Be taught extra about station actions by following the space station blog, @NASASpaceOps and @space_station on X, in addition to the ISS Facebook and ISS Instagram accounts.
