At 7:06 a.m. EDT, Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL was launched from the Canadarm2 robotic arm, which earlier indifferent the cargo spacecraft from the Earth-facing port of the Worldwide House Station’s Unity module. On the time of launch, the station was flying about 260 miles over the south Atlantic Ocean.
The Cygnus XL spacecraft efficiently departed the house station greater than seven months after arriving on the orbiting laboratory to ship about 11,000 kilos of provides, scientific investigations, business merchandise, {hardware} and different cargo for NASA and its worldwide companions.
The spacecraft will likely be commanded to deorbit on Saturday, March 14, to get rid of a number of thousand kilos of trash throughout its re-entry into Earth’s environment, the place it should harmlessly fritter away.
Be taught extra about station actions by following the house station weblog, @space_station on X, in addition to the ISS Facebook and ISS Instagram accounts.
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