A private cargo spacecraft left the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday morning (July 12), and its movements can be watched live in orbit.
Northrop Grumman Cygnus The spacecraft is scheduled to detach from the ISS at 7 a.m. EDT (11 a.m. GMT) on Friday, ending its 5.5-month orbital stay.
You can watch it live, courtesy of NASA, on Space.com, beginning at 6:30 a.m. EDT (10:30 a.m. GMT).
Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus robotic cargo plane approaches for docking with the International Space Station on February 1, 2024, showing the station’s robotic arm. (Image courtesy of NASA)
The Cygnus spacecraft, named SS Patricia “Patty” Hilliard Robertson after a NASA astronaut who died in a plane crash in 2001, was launched aboard a SpaceX rocket. Falcon 9 It launched on January 30. The launch marked the start of the NG-20 mission, named for the 20th flight of NASA’s Cygnus rocket to the ISS.
