Cygnus Spacecraft Will Send Scientific Material Supply To The Space Station

Cygnus spacecraft when captured by station (photo: dock. NASA)

NASA, Northrop Grumman, and SpaceX will launch their 21st commercial supply service mission on Saturday, August 8. The launch will use Cygnus spacecraft. Through this mission, NASA and two companies will deliver a wide range of equipment and equipment for scientific investigations to the International Space Station (ISS). There is a large supply that Cygnus carries and weighs up to 8,200 pounds. Northrop's Cygnus spacecraft will launch from Cape Canaveral's Outer Force Station, Florida at around 11.29 local time. The aircraft will be pushed into space using SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket. Upon arrival at the ISS, NASA Astronaut Matthew Dominick will capture Cygnus using the arm of the station robot. Once captured, Cygnus will be installed to the Unity module port so that astronauts can pick up all the supplies they carry.

Cygnus' equipment and equipment will carry test articles for the evaluation of fluid and gas flow through porous media, balloons, Sens, and hexagonal seeds for STEM demonstrations on centripetal forces, as well as microorganisms for research of the effects of spaceflight on DNA repair mechanisms. In addition, there are also bioreactors to demonstrate the production of high quality blood and immune parent cells as well as liver tissues that are vaccinated to monitor the development of blood vessels in engineering tissues. Cygnus aircraft is expected to arrive on August 5 and will settle until January. After leaving the ISS, Cygnus will re-enter Earth and will burn out when entering the atmosphere.