The Cygnus spacecraft will remain attached to the station for three months. The International Space Station’s robotic arm, under the control of astronaut Raja Chari, has snared the Northrop Grumman cargo freighter after a nearly two-day flight from a launch pad on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. After confirming equal pressure between the station and Cygnus, astronauts will open hatches to begin unpacking more than 8,000 pounds of supplies packed inside the ship’s cabin, including food, experiments, and parts for the station’s life support systems. Ground controllers took command of the space station’s robotic arm Monday to berth the Cygnus cargo ship to the Unity module. Orbital Sciences is now part of Northrop Grumman, which owns and operates the Antares rocket and Cygnus spacecraft. The commercial cargo transportation system was designed and developed by Orbital Sciences under contract to NASA. The spacecraft has a pressurized cargo compartment supplied by Thales Alenia Space of Italy, and a service module produced by Northrop Grumman. The resupply flight is the 17th cargo delivery to the space station by a Cygnus spacecraft since 2013. The Cygnus spacecraft deployed from the Antares launcher into a preliminary orbit, then used its own engine to approach the space station, culminating in Monday’s arrival. The mission lifted off Saturday from Wallops Island, Virginia, aboard a two-stage Antares rocket.
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NASA astronaut Raja Chari operated the Canadian-built robot arm to grapple the Cygnus spacecraft. The automated Cygnus cargo ship pulled within 40 feet, or 12 meters, of the space station early Monday, close enough for the station’s robotic arm to reach out and capture the supply freighter at 4:44 a.m.
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Credit: NASA TV / Spaceflight NowĪ commercial Cygnus cargo freighter from Northrop Grumman arrived at the International Space Station Monday, delivering more than 8,000 pounds of supplies and a new U.S. A Cygnus supply ship is grappled by the space station’s robotic arm Monday.