NASA’s protection is underway on NASA+, Amazon Prime, and the company’s YouTube channel for the seize of Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL spacecraft. Learn to watch NASA content material by a wide range of on-line platforms, together with social media.
At roughly 12:50 p.m. EDT, NASA astronauts Jack Hathaway and Chris Williams will seize the spacecraft utilizing the Worldwide House Station’s Canadarm2 robotic arm. After seize, Cygnus might be put in on the Unity module’s Earth-facing port for cargo unloading. NASA is not going to present reside protection of the spacecraft’s set up.
Cygnus XL launched at 7:41 a.m. April 11 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from House Launch Advanced 40 at Cape Canaveral House Pressure Station in Florida, carrying roughly 11,000 kilos of scientific investigations and cargo to the orbiting laboratory.
The mission is called NASA’s Northrop Grumman Industrial Resupply Companies 24, or Northrop Grumman CRS-24.
Study extra about station actions by following the area station weblog, @space_station on X, in addition to the ISS Facebook and ISS Instagram accounts.
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