NASA’s protection is underway on NASA+, Amazon Prime, and extra for the seize of Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL spacecraft. At roughly 7:18 a.m. EDT, NASA astronaut Jonny Kim will seize the spacecraft utilizing the Worldwide House Station’s Canadarm2 robotic arm, and NASA astronaut Zena Cardman will help. After seize, the spacecraft might be put in on the Unity module’s Earth-facing port for cargo unloading.
On Sept. 16, the Cygnus XL spacecraft’s fundamental engine shut down sooner than deliberate throughout two orbit-raising burns for its house station rendezvous. NASA and Northrop Grumman delayed its arrival whereas flight controllers assessed an alternate method plan. The early shutdown was triggered by a conservative software program safeguard. The spacecraft has been cleared for its method to the orbiting laboratory.
The spacecraft launched at 6:11 p.m. on Sept. 14 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from House Launch Complicated 40 at Cape Canaveral House Pressure Station in Florida, carrying greater than 11,000 kilos of scientific investigations and cargo to the orbiting laboratory for NASA. The mission is called NASA’s Northrop Grumman Industrial Resupply Companies 23, or Northrop Grumman CRS-23.
Stay protection of Cygnus XL set up will start at 8:25 a.m. on NASA+, Amazon Prime, and extra. Discover ways to watch NASA content material by means of quite a lot of platforms, together with social media.
NASA will present protection of the spacecraft’s set up starting at 8 a.m. on NASA+, the NASA app, YouTube, X, Fb, and the company’s web site.
Be taught extra about station actions by following @NASASpaceOps and @space_station on X, in addition to the Worldwide House Station’s Fb and Instagram accounts.
