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MOSCOW, January 12 – RIA Novosti. NASA Astronaut Mike Hopkins using Koichi Wakata Japanese colleagues successfully “caught” transport ship manipulator Cygnus International Space Station is expected to ship will be docked to the Harmony module around 16.00 MSK.
docking procedure broadcast on NASA site.
Antares rocket with private space “truck” Cygnus was successfully launched from the spaceport at Wallops Island on the east coast of the U.S. on January 9, after a series of delays caused a problem with the ISS, too cold weather in North America and with solar flares. This is the second flight of Cygnus to the ISS and the first of eight regular “flights” which are provided by the contract of the creator-ship – Orbital Sciences with NASA.
On board theabout 1.27 tons of cargo: scientific equipment, food and clothing for the crew, tools for working in space, computer accessories, as well as 33 small satellites to be launched to the ISS this year with the help of the Japanese robot manipulator.
How was the first flight to the ISS Cygnus
second after a private American ship Dragon cargo spaceship Cygnus, created by Orbital Sciences and who was given the name of “The Swan”, first flew to the ISS and docked to the station in September this year.
Cygnus Construction permits delivery into orbit from 2 to 2.7 tons of cargo, but the first flyby of the ship took only about 600 pounds – mostly clothing and food for the crew of the station, as well as materials and equipment for biological and chemical experiments, developed by American schoolchildren.
“Swan” stayed in the ISS for about a month, then it is loaded with garbage and undocked from the station, and then he went into the dense layers of the atmosphere and burned. Read more >>
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