The subsequent cargo run to the International Space Station will arrive on the orbiting outpost noon on Monday.
Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL spacecraft is anticipated to be captured by the Canadarm2 on the ISS round 12:50 p.m. EDT (1650 UTC). NASA astronaut Jack Hathaway will probably be on the controls of the robotic arm whereas fellow NASA astronaut Chris Williams screens its arrival.
Spaceflight Now may have stay protection of the car’s method and seize starting about 50 minutes previous to that second.
The mission is the second flight of a Cygnus XL car manufactured by Northrop Grumman. It launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Saturday, April 11, at 7:41 a.m. EDT (1141 UTC).
This was the fourth launch of a Cygnus spacecraft on a Falcon 9 rocket after the retirement of the Antares 230+. Northrop Grumman will transition to utilizing its Antares 330 rocket when that car is prepared. It’s being developed in partnership with Firefly Aerospace, which may even assist collectively create a brand new launch car, known as Eclipse.