NASA TV Coverage Set for Feb. 14 Cygnus Launch to Space Station

Editor’s note: An update to the present story, NASA TV Coverage Set for Feb. 14 Cygnus Launch to space platform , was published on Feb. 13, 2020.

Northrop Grumman’s next NASA resupply services mission to the International space platform is targeted for launch at 3:43 p.m. EST Friday, Feb. 14. Live coverage of the launch and briefings will begin at 3:15 p.m., on NASA Television and therefore the agency’s website.

The company’s 13th commercial resupply services mission using its Cygnus cargo spacecraft will launch on its Antares rocket from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.

On Feb. 9, Northrop Grumman scrubbed its Antares launch after off-nominal readings from a ground support sensor. The Antares rocket and Cygnus spacecraft remain healthy.

Loaded with approximately 7,500 pounds of research, crew supplies, and hardware, the Cygnus spacecraft, dubbed the SS Robert H. Lawrence, will reach the space platform Sunday, Feb. 16 at about 4 a.m. NASA aircrewman Andrew Morgan will grapple Cygnus and NASA astronaut Jessica Meir are going to be acting as a backup. After capture, the spacecraft are going to be installed on the Unity module’s Earth-facing port.

NASA TV coverage of the spacecraft’s arrival will begin at 2:30 a.m., and installation coverage will begin at 6 a.m.

The Cygnus spacecraft is scheduled to stay at the space platform until May 11, when it'll depart the orbiting laboratory. The Saffire-IV experiment are going to be conducted within Cygnus after it departs the station before deorbit. During its deorbit, it also will eliminate several plenty of trash during a fiery reentry into Earth’s atmosphere May 25.

Media registration for the launch and associated activities is closed. The prelaunch press conference and What’s on Board briefing happened on Feb 8 and may be viewed online:

Northrop Grumman's CRS-13 Mission: Prelaunch press conference

Northrop Grumman's CRS-13 Mission: What's on Board

Cargo resupply from U.S. companies ensures a national capability to deliver critical science research to the space platform , significantly increasing NASA's ability to conduct new investigations at the sole laboratory in space.