Northrop Grumman Antares Rocket Launches Cygnus Supply Ship To ISS Written 18 February 2020

Spaceflight Now  reported that on Saturday, Northrop Grumman launched the Cygnus supply ship to the ISS aboard one of its Antares rockets. Launch occurred “from pad 0A at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at 3:21:04 p.m. EST (2021:04 GMT) Saturday after Northrop Grumman scrubbed two previous launch attempts due to an issue with ground support equipment and unfavorable winds aloft.” Around 4:05 a.m. EST Tuesday, NASA astronaut Drew Morgan will use the ISS’ “robotic arm to capture the Cygnus cargo freighter.” The arm “will berth the Cygnus spacecraft to the station’s Unity module a few hours later, and the station crew will open hatches and begin unpacking some 7,445 pounds (3,377 kilograms) of cargo inside the ship’s Italian-built pressurized compartment.” Equipment aboard the Cygnus craft “includes a scanning electron microscope built by Voxa, a Seattle-area company that aims to miniaturize and reduce the cost of nano-imaging technology.” Also launched were a number of “biological research experiments.” Smallsats aboard Cygnus include DARPA’s Red-Eye 2 microsatellite, the DARPA-MIT developed Deformable Mirror CubeSat and NASA’s Ames Research Center’s TechEdSat 10 nanosatellite.
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