The first flight of the Cygnus , a young observational space vehicle , lit off at 10:58AM today from NASA ’s newly popularWallops Island Flight Facility in Virginia . The Cygnus is an remote-controlled load vessel , and for this test mission it ’s gestate about 1,300 Sudanese pound of provision to the three astronauts presently orbiting in the ISS .
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The newly - designed Cygnus freight ship is built by secret spaceflight society Orbital Sciences , which was responsible for for thefirst moonlight commission launched from Wallops Islandearlier this month . Since this is the first Cygnus blank space mission it ’s considered a “ test ” flying , but the payload of intellectual nourishment and supply , including a tending software withchocolates for American astronaut Karen Nyberg , is probably pretty important to its recipient .
Like the moonlight launch at the beginning of the month , this mission was visible to folks along the East Coast , with some great footage from those lucky enough to get close to the launch site :
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The shipment should reach the ISS by Sunday , at which point it will be replete with trash from the orbiter and jettisoned to burn up in the atm on its way back to Earth . [ PopSci , ABC News ]
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