{"id":219183,"date":"2014-02-18T09:25:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T13:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"9803fc7f69932543b9eccdd859d0d963"},"modified":"2014-02-18T09:25:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T13:25:00","slug":"cygnus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=219183","title":{"rendered":"Cygnus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2014\/02\/cygnus\/14281213-1-eng-GB\/Cygnus_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nOrbital Science\u2019s commercial spacecraft Cygnus-1 left the International Space Station today, 17 February 2014, after spending around a month in space.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis image shows a previous Cygnus, the first demonstration flight, as it approached the orbital outpost in September 2013. ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano and NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.esa.int\/luca-parmitano\/2013\/10\/10\/cygnus\/\">caught and berthed the spacecraft with the Station\u2019s robotic arm<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nCygnus, which means swan in Greek, was the second commercial spacecraft to bring supplies to the International Space Station. Developed by US company Orbital Science, the spacecraft uses a European-built pressurised module that has a long history of use in human spaceflight.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nDeveloped by Thales Alenia Space and built in Turin, Italy, versions of the spacecraft\u2019s pressure vessel were used for ESA\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/About_Us\/Welcome_to_ESA\/ESA_history\/Spacelab_and_30_years_of_ESA_astronauts\">Spacelab laboratory<\/a> that flew on the Space Shuttle, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Human_Spaceflight\/Columbus\/Columbus_laboratory\">Columbus laboratory<\/a> on the Station and ESA\u2019s own supply ship, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Human_Spaceflight\/ATV\">ATV<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nCygnus-1 is now floating freely around Earth and will burn up harmlessly when it enters the atmosphere tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2014\/02\/cygnus\/14281213-1-eng-GB\/Cygnus_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nOrbital Science\u2019s commercial spacecraft Cygnus-1 left the International Space Station today, 17 February 2014, after spending around a month in space.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis image shows a previous Cygnus, the first demonstration flight, as it approached the orbital outpost in September 2013. ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano and NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.esa.int\/luca-parmitano\/2013\/10\/10\/cygnus\/\">caught and berthed the spacecraft with the Station\u2019s robotic arm<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nCygnus, which means swan in Greek, was the second commercial spacecraft to bring supplies to the International Space Station. Developed by US company Orbital Science, the spacecraft uses a European-built pressurised module that has a long history of use in human spaceflight.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nDeveloped by Thales Alenia Space and built in Turin, Italy, versions of the spacecraft\u2019s pressure vessel were used for ESA\u2019s <a href=\"\/About_Us\/Welcome_to_ESA\/ESA_history\/Spacelab_and_30_years_of_ESA_astronauts\">Spacelab laboratory<\/a> that flew on the Space Shuttle, the <a href=\"\/Our_Activities\/Human_Spaceflight\/Columbus\/Columbus_laboratory\">Columbus laboratory<\/a> on the Station and ESA\u2019s own supply ship, <a href=\"\/Our_Activities\/Human_Spaceflight\/ATV\">ATV<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nCygnus-1 is now floating freely around Earth and will burn up harmlessly when it enters the atmosphere tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=219183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=219183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=219183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=219183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}