July 8, 2024
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NASA to Cover Northrop Grummanâs 20th Cargo Space Station
Departure
Northrop Grummanâs Cygnus spacecraft and the International Space Station above western Mongolia (Credits: NASA).
Northrop Grummanâs uncrewed Cygnus spacecraft is scheduled to depart the
International Space Station on Friday, July 12, five and a half months after delivering more than
8,200 pounds of supplies,
scientific investigations, commercial products, hardware, and other cargo to the orbiting laboratory for NASA and its international partners.
This mission was the companyâs 20th commercial resupply mission to the space station for NASA.
Live coverage of the spacecraftâs departure will begin at 6:30 a.m. EDT on the
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Flight controllers on the ground will send commands for the space stationâs Canadarm2 robotic arm to detach Cygnus from the Unity moduleâs Earth-facing port, then
maneuver the spacecraft into position for its release at 7 a.m. NASA astronaut
Mike Barratt will monitor Cygnusâ
systems upon its departure from the space station.
Following unberthing, the
Kentucky Re-entry Probe Experiment-2 (KREPE-2),
stowed inside Cygnus, will take measurements to demonstrate a thermal protection system for the spacecraft and its contents during re-entry in Earthâs atmosphere.
Cygnus - filled with trash packed by the station crew - will be commanded to deorbit on Saturday, July 13, setting up a destructive re-entry in which the spacecraft will safely burn
up in Earthâs atmosphere.
The Northrop Grumman spacecraft arrived at the space station Feb. 1, following a
launch on a
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
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