After delivering science and supplies to the @Space_Station earlier this year, Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL cargo spacecraft is scheduled to depart on Friday, Oct. 9. Here’s how to watch: https://t.co/6T4Qx8BuvD https://t.co/HsbMJosJgc

NASA to Cover Northrop Grumman CRS-24 Spacecraft Departure - NASA

Source: https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-to-cover-northrop-grumman-crs-24-spacecraft-departure/?utm_source=TWITTER&utm_medium=NASA&utm_campaign=NASASocial&linkId=1017539000 After delivering more than 11,000 pounds of supplies, science experiments, and other cargo to the International Space Station for NASA, Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL spacecraft is scheduled to depart Friday, Oct. 9, as part of the company’s Commercial Resupply Services-24 mission, or Northrop Grumman CRS-24.

Watch NASA’s live coverage of undocking and departure beginning at 12:30 p.m. EDT through a variety of platforms. Learn where to watch online:

https://www.nasa.gov/live

Flight controllers on the ground will send commands for the space station’s Canadarm2 robotic arm to detach the Cygnus XL spacecraft from the Unity module’s Earth-facing port and maneuver it into position for release at 12:45 p.m. NASA astronautLuke Delaneywill monitor the operation from aboard the orbital complex.

Loaded with thousands of pounds of disposal items and other unneeded cargo, Cygnus XL will deorbit Sunday, Oct. 11, for a destructive re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere, where it will safely burn up. NASA will not provide coverage of the spacecraft’s deorbit.

The resupply spacecraftlaunchedon April 11 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

Learn more about this NASA commercial resupply mission at:

https://www.nasa.gov/mission/nasas-northrop-grumman-crs-24/

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