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SpaceX launches Northrop Grumman cargo ship to Worldwide Area Station

Editorial Board Published September 15, 2025
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Sooner or later after the arrival of a Russian cargo ship, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched an upgraded Northrop Grumman area freighter Sunday, placing the unpiloted spacecraft on the right track for seize by the Worldwide Area Station early Wednesday.

On board: greater than 5 tons of wanted spare elements, analysis materials and crew provides, together with vacation treats for the station crew.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket climbs away from pad 40 on the Cape Canaveral Area Power Station, boosting a Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo ship towards orbit on a flight to the Worldwide Area Station.

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“The (Cygnus) is packed with consumables, like nitrogen, oxygen, food and toilet parts, and it has a large number of spare parts that are required for systems like, for example, our urine processor,” mentioned Dina Contella, deputy supervisor of the area station program on the Johnson Area Heart.

“We’re stocking up on these items since we were short over the past year, and we’d like to have a good reserve for the future.”

Among the many extra mouth-watering gadgets being delivered “are what I’d call specialties,” Contella mentioned. “The crew can eat these during any of the upcoming holidays or at any time really, but these are foods like clams, oysters, crab, roast turkey and smoked salmon, plus treats like candies, cookies and ice cream.”

“We also have a high school breakfast competition food called … shakshuka scramble. It’s based on a popular dish throughout North Africa and the Middle East made of eggs cooked in spicy sauce.”

Mounted atop pad 40 on the Cape Canaveral Area Power Station, the Falcon 9’s first stage engines thundered to life at 6:11 p.m. EDT, producing 1.7 million kilos of thrust to push the rocket up into the early night sky on a northeasterly trajectory matching the area station’s orbit.

After powering out of the thick decrease ambiance, the primary stage separated, reversed course and flew itself again to a spectacular touchdown on the Area Power station to chalk up SpaceX’s 67th Florida landing and its 505th profitable booster restoration general.

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Placing on a spectacular present for spectators watching from a Port Canaveral pier, the Falcon 9’s first stage booster, making its fourth flight, efficiently flew itself again to Florida after boosting the rocket’s higher stage out of the decrease ambiance. The rocket’s touchdown legs are deploying on this photograph, taken seconds earlier than landing.

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The Falcon 9’s second stage, in the meantime, put the Cygnus into the deliberate preliminary orbit and launched it to fly by itself 14-and-a-half minutes after liftoff. If all goes nicely, the spacecraft will meet up with the area station early Wednesday for seize by the lab’s robotic arm.

Berthing will come 4 days after a Russian Progress cargo ship, launched Thursday from Kazakhstan, docked on the lab’s aft port, bringing propellant, a brand new Russian spacesuit and different wanted provides to the outpost.

Sunday’s launch was the third of not less than 4 SpaceX flights bought by Northrop Grumman whereas the corporate develops a brand new booster of its personal. And it was the primary flight of a Cygnus XL, so named as a result of the spacecraft has been lengthened to permit it to hold extra cargo to the area station.

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The Cygnus cargo ship was launched from the Falcon 9’s higher stage about 14-and-a-half minutes after liftoff. If all goes nicely, the spacecraft will meet up with the area station early Wednesday.

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“We’ve been partnering with Northrop Grumman on this update, and we’re excited that Northrop is ready to deliver this incredibly beneficial increase in capacity,” Contella mentioned. “It’s about 1.6 meters (5 feet) longer, and it carries about 2,600 additional pounds more cargo.”

NASA pays for cargo supply flights utilizing Cygnus spacecraft and SpaceX’s Dragon. So far, SpaceX has efficiently carried out 32 Dragon resupply missions, whereas Northrop Grumman has launched 21 profitable flights. Each firms suffered one in-flight failure every early within the business resupply program.

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