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NASA, Northrop Grumman Complete Cygnus XL Space Station Reboost

Northrop Grumman's Cygnus XL cargo craft is pictured installed to the Unity module's Earth-facing port as the International Space Station orbited 262 miles above the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of South Africa.
Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL cargo craft is pictured installed to the Unity module’s Earth-facing port as the International Space Station orbited 262 miles above the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of South Africa.
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Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL spacecraft today fired its thrusters for 20 mins, 43 seconds boosting the International Space Station’s orbit. 

The Cygnus XL’s gimbaled delta velocity engine was used to adjust the space station’s altitude by 2/10-of-a-mile at apogee, or highest point of station’s orbit, and 2.6 miles at perigee, or lowest point of station’s orbit, placing the station in an orbit of 266.5 x 254.9 miles. 

The Cygnus XL spacecraft, which is supporting NASA’s Northrop Grumman Commercial Resupply Services 24 mission, arrived at the orbital complex on April 13, delivering more than 11,000 pounds of science and supplies to the space station. Cygnus will remain berthed to space station until October when it will be filled with disposal cargo, unberthed from station, and then harmlessly burn up during its destructive reentry into Earth’s atmosphere.

This reboost sets up the phasing for Progress 96 launch in early September.

Learn more about station activities by following the space station blog, @space_station on X, as well as the ISS Facebook and ISS Instagram accounts. 

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