MOSCOW, Oct. 22 – RIA Novosti. The manipulator of the International
ISS payload bay filled garbage. On Wednesday, the Cygnus include motors for braking and 22.18 MSK enter the atmosphere and burn up over the Pacific Ocean, east of New Zealand.
ship Cygnus (“The Swan”), developed by Orbital Sciences, was the second in the history of private space truck after the ship Dragon, created SpaceX. At the end of September, he delivered to the ISS about 600 kilograms of cargo – mostly clothes and food for astronauts.
Under the terms of the contract with NASA’s $ 1.9 billion, signed in 2008, Orbital shall provide eight regular cargo flights to the ISS (the current “demonstration” flight do not count) and deliver to the station 20 tons of cargo in 2016.
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