{"id":785385,"date":"2024-07-08T18:25:55","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T23:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=785385"},"modified":"2024-07-08T18:25:55","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T23:25:55","slug":"nasa-to-cover-northrop-grummans-20th-cargo-space-station-departure-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=785385","title":{"rendered":"NASA to Cover Northrop Grumman\u2019s 20th Cargo Space Station Departure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Northrop Grumman\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>This mission was the company\u2019s 20th commercial resupply mission to the space station for NASA.<\/p>\n<p>Live coverage of the spacecraft\u2019s departure will begin at 6:30 a.m. EDT on the NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA app, YouTube, and the agency\u2019s website. Learn how to stream NASA TV through a variety of platforms including social media.<\/p>\n<p>Flight controllers on the ground will send commands for the space station\u2019s Canadarm2 robotic arm to detach Cygnus from the Unity module\u2019s Earth-facing port, then maneuver the spacecraft into position for its release at 7 a.m. NASA astronaut Mike Barratt will monitor Cygnus\u2019 systems upon its departure from the space station.<\/p>\n<p>Following unberthing, theKentucky 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 Earth\u2019s atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>Cygnus \u2013 filled with trash packed by the station crew \u2013 will be commanded to deorbit on Saturday, July 13, setting up a destructive re-entry in which the spacecraft will safely burn up in Earth\u2019s atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Get breaking news, images, and features from the space station on the station blog, Instagram, Facebook, and <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/Space_Station\" rel=\"noopener\">X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about Cygnus\u2019 mission and the International Space Station at:<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">-end-<\/p>\n<p>Joshua Finch \/ Julian Coltre<br \/>Headquarters, Washington<br \/>202-358-1100<br \/>joshua.a.finch@nasa.gov \/ julian.n.coltre@nasa.gov<\/p>\n<p>Sandra Jones \/ Dominique Crespo<br \/>Johnson Space Center, Houston<br \/>281-483-5111<br \/>sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov \/ dominique.v.crespo@nasa.gov<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/news-release\/nasa-to-cover-northrop-grummans-20th-cargo-space-station-departure\/?rand=772197\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northrop Grumman\u2019s 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,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":785378,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-785385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-station"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785385","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=785385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/785378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=785385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=785385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=785385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}