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Northrop Grumman Cygnus Prepared For Launch

By Keith Cowing
Status Report
NASA
October 9, 2023
Northrop Grumman Cygnus Prepared For Launch
Northrop Grumman Cygnus Prepared For Launch
NASA

The Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft’s pressurized cargo module (PCM) for the company’s 20th commercial resupply mission is lifted and moved by crane inside the high bay in the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday, Sept. 18, 2023.

The next step is vehicle processing for the mission to the International Space Station. Liftoff, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, will be from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40.

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