Cygnus XL Cargo Craft Solar Arrays Deploy Powering Flight to Station

Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL spacecraft deployed its two solar arrays after launching earlier today at 7:41 a.m. EDT on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The mission is known as NASA’s Northrop Grumman Commercial Resupply Services-24, or Northrop Grumman CRS-24. The post Cygnus XL Cargo Craft Solar Arrays Deploy Powering Flight to Station appeared first on NASA Science.