{"id":13411,"date":"2025-03-28T12:03:18","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T16:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zobi.alcowep.com\/bourtagshdrevxnls658739\/cygnus-departs-station-after-release-from-robotic-arm\/"},"modified":"2025-03-28T12:03:18","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T16:03:18","slug":"cygnus-departs-station-after-release-from-robotic-arm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zobi.alcowep.com\/bourtagshdrevxnls658739\/cygnus-departs-station-after-release-from-robotic-arm\/","title":{"rendered":"Cygnus Departs Station After Release from Robotic Arm"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cygnus Departs Station After Release from Robotic Arm<\/h2>\n

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The Cygnus spacecraft, with its prominent cymbal-shaped UltraFlex solar arrays, departs the International Space Station as both spacecraft orbited above the Atlantic Ocean.<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

At 6:55 a.m. EDT, the S.S. Richard \u201cDick\u201d Scobee Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft was released from the Canadarm2 robotic arm, which earlier detached Cygnus from the Earth-facing port of the International Space Station<\/a>\u2019s Unity module. At the time of release, the station was flying about 260 miles over the Pacific Ocean.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Cygnus spacecraft successfully departed the space station more than seven and a half months after arriving at the microgravity laboratory to deliver about 8,200 pounds of supplies, scientific investigations, commercial products, hardware, and other cargo for NASA.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Following a deorbit engine firing on Sunday, March 30, Cygnus will begin a planned destructive re-entry, in which the spacecraft \u2013 filled with trash packed by the station crew \u2013 will safely burn up in Earth\u2019s atmosphere.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Cygnus arrived<\/a> at the space station Aug. 6, 2024, following a launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. It was the company\u2019s 21st commercial resupply services mission to the space station for NASA. The spacecraft is named the S.S. Richard \u201cDick\u201d Scobee in honor of the former NASA astronaut.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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At 6:55 a.m. EDT, the S.S. Richard \u201cDick\u201d Scobee Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft was released from the Canadarm2 robotic arm, which earlier detached Cygnus from the Earth-facing port of the International Space Station\u2019s Unity module. At the time of release, the station was flying about 260 miles over the Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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