On the night of Wednesday, August 11, from the American spaceport located on Wallops Island (Virginia) in the Atlantic Ocean, the Antares launch vehicle with the Cygnus cargo spacecraft was launched, which is supposed to deliver new equipment and instruments to the crew of the International Space Station (ISS).
The flight is broadcast on the website of the American National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The launch took place at 18:01 US East Coast time (01:01 Moscow time). Cygnus is expected to arrive at the ISS on August 12th.
The NASA report notes that the Northrop Grumman space truck, among other payloads, will deliver to the orbital station a 3D printer, an apparatus for purifying air from carbon dioxide on ships using new technologies, and a mounting bracket that astronauts will install during their spacewalk. on the supporting frame of solar panels.
Recall, as the website kp.ru wrote, on July 29, a new Nauka module moored to the Zvezda module of the ISS Russian segment, which was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome on July 21 and launched into orbit by the Proton-M launch vehicle.
