SpaceX Lance Northrop Grumman Cargo Ship to International Space Station

One day after the arrival of a Russian cargo cargo, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched an improved Northrop Grumman space cargo on Sunday, putting the spacecraft not guaranteed on capture captures by the international space station on Wednesday early.

On board: more than 5 tonnes of necessary spare parts, search equipment and crew supplies, including holiday treats for the station’s crew.

“The (Cygnus) is filled with consumables, such as nitrogen, oxygen, food and toilets, and it contains a large number of spare parts that are necessary for systems like, for example, our urine processor,” said Dina Contella, assistant director of the Space Station program at the Johnson Space Center.

“We are full of these articles since we have been short in the past year, and we would like to have a good reserve for the future.”

Among the more appetizing items delivered “are what I would call specialties,” said Contella. “The crew can eat them during one of a vacation to come or at any time, but they are foods like clams, oysters, crab, roasted turkey and smoked salmon, as well as treats like candy, cookies and ice.”

“We also have a breakfast cuisine in high school called … Shakshuka Scramble. It is based on a popular dish throughout North Africa and the Middle East made of cooked eggs in spicy sauce.”

Mounted at the top of the PAD 40 at the Space Force Station of Cape Canaveral, the engines of the first stages of Falcon 9 have mowed in life at 6:11 p.m., generating 1.7 million pounds of push to push the rocket in the sky at the beginning of the evening on a northeast trajectory corresponding to the orbit of the space station.

After leaving the thick lower atmosphere, the first step separated, reversed the course and turned to a spectacular landing at Space Force station to repress the 67th affected by the Florida de Spacex and its 505th recovery of successful booster overall.

The second stage of Falcon 9, on the other hand, placed the cygnus in the planned preliminary orbit and released it to fly at its own 14 minutes and a half after takeoff. If all goes well, the spaceship will catch up with the space station early Wednesday to capture by the laboratory robot arm.

The docking will take place four days after a cargo of Russian progress, launched Thursday from Kazakhstan, accosted at the rear port of the laboratory, bringing the propellant, a new Russian spatial combination and other supplies necessary for the outpost.

The launch of Sunday was the third of four SpaceX flights bought by Northrop Grumman while the company is developing its new recall. And it was the first flight of a Cygnus XL, so named because the spacecraft was lying to allow it to transport more cargo to the space station.

“We have teamed up with Northrop Grumman on this update, and we are delighted that Northrop is ready to offer this incredibly beneficial increase in capacity,” said Contella. “It measures approximately 1.6 meters (5 feet) more, and it carries around 2,600 additional pounds of cargo.”

NASA pays freight delivery flights using the SpaceX spatial spatial. To date, SpaceX has successfully completed 32 dragon replenishment missions, while Northrop Grumman has launched 21 successful flights. The two companies underwent a failure in flight each at the start of the commercial replenishment program.