The Northrop Grumman Cygnus NG-18 cargo ship approaches the International Space Station with only one solar panel deployed (the failed one is at right) on Nov. 9, 2022. (Image credit: NASA TV) ...

March 27 (UPI) --The uncrewed Cygnus spacecraft is scheduled to undock from the International Space Station Friday after having delivered more than 4 tons of supplies, scientific instruments used ...

A Cygnus cargo spacecraft doesn't return to Earth. The crew typically packs it up with trash before it undocks, reenters Earth's atmosphere and burns up, like an elaborate garbage disposal system.

The Cygnus cargo ship pulled up to within about 30 feet of the International Space Station and then stood by for capture by the lab's robot arm, operated from inside the lab by astronaut Woody Hoburg.

Three weeks ago, NASA revealed that a shipping container protecting a Cygnus spacecraft sustained "damage" while traveling to the launch site in Florida. Built by Northrop Grumman, Cygnus is one ...

Cygnus Freighter Reaches ISS With Only One Functioning Solar Array Northrop Grumman's spacecraft, carrying 8,200 pounds of cargo, was able to draw enough power and reach the orbiting station ...

Aug. 6 (UPI) --Northrup Grumman's Cygnus resupply spacecraft reached the International Space Station early Tuesday morning, delivering some four tons of supplies to the orbiting laboratory, NASA said.

Cygnus has so far been on 17 successful missions to the ISS since the first one in 2013. Only one time has it failed to reach the orbital outpost, but that was due to a catastrophic rocket failure ...

Cygnus is on its way to the last site of ongoing cooperation, the ISS. But NASA is already starting to plan for the station reaching the end of its finite life around the end of the decade.