January 2021
Taking out the trash in space
...Station (ISS) is either carried on board the spacecraft during the mission or stored inside a logistics module, such as a Cygnus or Progress transport capsule, which are de-orbited into Earth’s atmosphere for destruction. The idea is to develop space...
04 November 2015
KIC 8462852 mystery: blocked by ‘alien megastructure’ … or something more banal?
A dramatically dimming star in Cygnus is giving astronomers a bit of a headache. Amateur astronomers working at the Planet Hunters project that scans Kepler space ...
25 February 2016
SpaceX Signs New NASA Contract for Five Additional Cargo-Supply Missions
... 16,000 kilograms of cargo to the orbital complex. It is unclear whether the December award to SpaceX indicates that Orbital’s Cygnus is falling out of favor with the agency as it assesses space station requirements in the coming years. “NASA assigns...
15 July 2016
The Week in Space: Business Digest, July 8-15
... module is designed to transport crew supplies and science experiments on Orbital ATK’s Cygnus spacecraft under NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services contract. Cygnus recently delivered 7,900 pounds of cargo and science experiments to astronauts aboard...
October 2015
Finding Earth-like worlds: the tale of how Kepler-452b was discovered
... in the habitable zone of the Sun-like stars we’re observing. Kepler studied the same starfield in the constellation of Cygnus, so that its target stars could be monitored continuously. Undoubtedly there are more planets to be found, even smaller...
January 2017
Prospects for progress on space security diplomacy
.... The International Space Station is a symbol of cooperation. Here, three vehicles are simultaneously attached - Orbital ATK’s Cygnus cargo craft (left), Russia’s Soyuz MS-01 vehicle (middle) and the Russian Progress 64 cargo craft (right.) This...
