Worms, an advanced supercomputer, an artificial retina experiment and more, arrived at the International Space Station on a Cygnus cargo ship on Monday (February 22) after a two-day spaceflight.
The Northrop Grumman Cygnus NG-15 spacecraft with these experiments and more than £ 8,200. (3,719 kilograms) stocks moved to orbit at 04:38 EST (0938 GMT). The spacecraft is named after Katherine Johnson, a black NASA mathematician and ‘Hidden figure‘best known for helping with the first human lunar landing mission, Apollo 11, in 1969.
Expedition 64 astronaut and flight engineer Soichi Noguchi, of the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency, captured SS Katherine Johnson using the Canadarm2 robot. The astronaut and flight engineer Michael Hopkins, NASA Expedition 64, assisted him. NASA said in an update. Activities were also presented live on NASA Television.
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At 7:16 AM EST (11:16 GMT), ground controllers laid the spacecraft to the Earth gate of the Unity module, where it was locked for a mission that will last until May, NASA said in a second update on the spacecraft.
Cygnus traveled a little less than two days to his destination after being on a Northrop Grumman Antares rocket from Road 0A of the Mid-Atlantic Space Harbor at NASA’s Wallops flying facility in Virginia on Saturday (February 20).
The experiments it launched included an examination of worm muscle strength, an artificial retina experiment and the SpaceBorne Computer-2 from Hewlett Packard Enterprise, the latter of which reduced the amount of data sent to the ground by more information in to process a job.
The ISS astronauts will unload everything from Cygnus and eventually recharge it before leaving in May. When the last Cygnus spacecraft left the space station in January, it was the latest in a series of experiments to investigate the behavior of fire in space, called Saffire V. It also tested high-speed 5G communications before burning up in Earth’s atmosphere, as planned. .
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