Northrop Grumman Corporation\u2019s Cygnus spacecraft was successfully launched to the International Space Station by SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida in support of the company\u2019s 21st resupply mission (NG-21) under NASA\u2019s Commercial Resupply Service-2 (CRS-2) contract.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
NG-21 is carrying over 8,200 pounds of equipment, science experiments and supplies to crew aboard the space station.
Since 2023, Northrop Grumman has provided six reboost services while Cygnus was attached to the station \u2013 with the opportunity for more during this mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Expert:<\/strong> Details:<\/strong> Cygnus uses crucial products manufactured by the company, including UltraFlex solar arrays, spacecraft structures, propellant tanks and loop heat pipe radiators for temperature control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Northrop Grumman Corporation\u2019s Cygnus spacecraft was successfully launched to the International Space Station by…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209],"tags":[219,321,211,214],"class_list":["post-2813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-launch","tag-indian-space-magazines","tag-ngcs-ng-21-resupply-mission-successfully-launches-to-the-iss","tag-space-magazines","tag-space-news-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacepreneurmag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacepreneurmag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacepreneurmag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacepreneurmag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacepreneurmag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacepreneurmag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2861,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacepreneurmag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813\/revisions\/2861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacepreneurmag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacepreneurmag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacepreneurmag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacepreneurmag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Ryan Tintner, vice president, civil space systems, Northrop Grumman: \u201cNorthrop Grumman is providing logistics technology that delivers differentiating capabilities \u2013 sustaining life and science research aboard the space station. NG-21 is another critical mission that builds on our longstanding support for NASA and the space station.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Northrop Grumman names each Cygnus spacecraft in honor of an individual who has made great contributions to human spaceflight. For NG-21, Cygnus is named for Francis R. \u201cDick\u201d Scobee, a NASA astronaut, U.S. Air Force pilot and engineer who commanded the 1986 space shuttle Challenger. As a test pilot, he logged more than 6,500 hours of flying time in 45 different aircraft. In 1984, he piloted the STS 41-C mission, spending seven days in space. He served as commander of Challenger for the STS 51-L mission, losing his life along with six other crew in the fatal accident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n