At 11:02 a.m. EDT, 8,200 kilos of scientific investigations and cargo launched to the Worldwide House Station on Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus spacecraft for the corporate’s twenty first business resupply companies mission for NASA. The spacecraft lifted off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from House Launch Complicated 40 at Cape Canaveral House Power Station in Florida.
Cygnus will attain its preliminary orbit about 10 minutes after launch and is anticipated to deploy its photo voltaic arrays about three hours later.
NASA will present dwell protection of the spacecraft’s arrival starting at 1:30 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 6 on NASA+, NASA Tv, the NASA app, YouTube, X, Facebook, and the company’s website.
NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick will seize Cygnus utilizing the station’s Canadarm2 robotic arm at roughly 3:10 a.m., and NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps is backup.
Study extra about station actions by following @space_station and @ISS_Research on X in addition to the ISS Facebook and ISS Instagram accounts.
