At 11:02 a.m. EDT, 8,200 pounds of scientific investigations and cargo launched to the International Space Station on Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus spacecraft for the company’s 21st commercial resupply services mission for NASA. The spacecraft lifted off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
Cygnus will reach its preliminary orbit about 10 minutes after launch and is expected to deploy its solar arrays about three hours later.
NASA will provide live coverage of the spacecraft’s arrival beginning at 1:30 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 6 on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA app, YouTube, X, Facebook, and the agency’s website.
NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick will capture Cygnus using the station’s Canadarm2 robotic arm at approximately 3:10 a.m., and NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps is backup.
Learn more about station activities by following @space_station and @ISS_Research on X as well as the ISS Facebook and ISS Instagram accounts.