NASA’s NG-11 Cygnus resupply spacecraft spent over three months attached to the International Space Station, allowing crew members to carefully unload all supplies and experiments before being packed with anything the crew no longer needs and then departing. It was a fairly unremarkable resupply mission, but that’s about to change in a big way.
Rather than plummeting back down to Earth in a fiery blaze of glory and being destroyed in our planet’s atmosphere, the vehicle will instead spend some time in Earth orbit as engineers test a suite of new hardware. In the future, Cygnus spacecraft may be used to carry out certain scientific efforts that don’t require it to be attached to the space station itself.
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NASA’s Cygnus cargo vessel just left the ISS, but its mission isn’t over yet originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 7 Aug 2019 at 11:52:16 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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