NASA, Northrop Grumman Postpone Space Station Cargo Ship Launch to Saturday

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NASA, Northrop Grumman Postpone Space Station Cargo Ship Launch to Saturday







NASA and Northrop Grumman have postponed The launch of an Antares rocket. bring fresh supplies to the International Space Station for 24 hours due to bad weather. The launch will begin early Saturday, November 17, NASA officials said. 



	

	The Antares rocket and its payload, an unmanned Cygnus freighter also built by Northrop Grumman, was originally scheduled to be launched to the station today (November 14) from NASA's Wallops flight facility on Wallops Island, Virginia, but the weather was severe from the storms along the East Coast of the United States caused a delay until Friday. That same disastrous weather forecast led the mission managers to delay the launch another day. The takeoff is now scheduled for Saturday at 4:01 a.m. EST (0901 GMT). 



	You can see the launch of Antares live here., starting at 3:30 a.m. EST (0835 GMT), courtesy of NASA TV. Time permits, the launch. it must be visible to viewers along the east coast of the USA. UU.

		"The teams decided to wait another day for the launch after assessing the continuous unfavorable weather conditions, including strong winds and the high seas, predicted for Friday morning," NASA officials said. "The forecast for a launch on Saturday has improved significantly with less than a five percent chance that weather conditions prevent a launch."





						


A Northrop Grumman Antares rocket carrying the cargo ship Cygnus NG-10 is located on Pad-0A at NASA's Wallops flight facility on Wallops Island, Virginia. The rocket is scheduled to launch a refueling mission to the International Space Station on November 17, 2018.

            						    Credit: Joel Kowsky / NASA 


		The cargo ship Cygnus carries about 7,400 pounds (3,356 kilograms) of new experiments, food and other supplies for the three-person crew of Expedition 57 on the International Space Station, NASA officials said. If he can launch on Saturday, Cygnus will arrive at the station early Monday (November 19), when he will be captured by astronauts with a robotic arm and docked in an open port in the orbital laboratory.

		Antares and Cygnus are not the only things that are launched to the space station this week. On Friday, a Russian Soyuz rocket will launch an unmanned Progress cargo ship, called Progress 71, from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to deliver nearly 3 tons of food, fuel and supplies to the laboratory in orbit. That mission will arrive at the station on Sunday (November 18), a day before Cygnus, said NASA officials. 



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