The debut mission of Northrop Grumman’s new jumbo cargo spacecraft is going well. The Virginia-based company’s first “Cygnus XL” freighter arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) early this morning (Sept. 18), after a one-day delay. The key moment came at 7:24 a.m. EDT (1124 GMT), when NASA astronaut Jonny Kim used the orbiting lab’s Canadarm2 robotic arm to grapple …
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The debut mission of Northrop Grumman’s new jumbo cargo spacecraft didn’t go off without a hitch. The company’s first “Cygnus XL” freighter suffered a thruster issue in orbit early Tuesday morning (Sept. 16), two days after launching toward the International Space Station (ISS) atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. As a result, “the Cygnus XL will not arrive to the …
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What happens when you use a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to launch Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus supply ship? A record-setting resupply mission to the International Space Station. The first flight of Northrop’s upgraded Cygnus spacecraft, called Cygnus XL, is on its way to the international research lab after launching Sunday evening from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. This mission, known …
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