Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus spacecraft established communications with ground engineers and deployed its solar arrays after it took off Wednesday as part of the company’s 11th and final cargo delivery mission to the International Space Station under the Commercial Resupply Services-1 contract with NASA.
Northrop Grumman plans to launch its Cygnus spacecraft Wednesday on a mission to deliver approximately 7.6K pounds of scientific equipment and supplies to the International Space Station.
NASA has moved from Oct. 13 to Oct. 16 the launch of an Orbital ATK-built Cygnus spacecraft due to tropical storm Nicole. Cygnus is initially scheduled to launch Thursday aboard Orbital ATK’s Antares 230 rocket to deliver approximately 5,100 pounds of crew supplies and research equipment to the International Space Station under the company’s Commercial […] More