At 7:41 a.m. EDT, greater than 11,000 kilos of scientific investigations and cargo launched to the Worldwide Area Station aboard Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL spacecraft for the corporate’s Business Resupply Providers-24 mission, or Northrop Grumman CRS-24. The spacecraft lifted off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Area Launch Complicated 40 at Cape Canaveral Area Pressure Station in Florida.
Cygnus XL will attain its preliminary orbit about 10 minutes after launch and is predicted to deploy its photo voltaic arrays about an hour and 45 minutes later.
Reside protection of the spacecraft’s arrival will start at 12 p.m. Monday, April 13, on NASA+, Amazon Prime, and the company’s YouTube channel. Discover ways to watch NASA content material via a wide range of on-line platforms, together with social media.
NASA astronauts Jack Hathaway and Chris Williams will seize Cygnus utilizing the station’s Canadarm2 robotic arm at roughly 12:50 p.m. NASA is not going to present dwell protection of the spacecraft’s set up.
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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