(AGENPARL) – mer 28 settembre 2022 September 28, 2022
MEDIA ADVISORY M22-138
NASA Invites Media to Northrop Grumman’s Antares Cargo Resupply Launch
[Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus spacecraft is processed for flight at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on September 24, 2022.](https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/ng18_cygnus_mate-03_copy_002.jpg)
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Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus spacecraft is processed for flight at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on September 24. The spacecraft is scheduled for flight on the company’s Antares rocket no earlier than 5:50 a.m. EST, Nov. 6, 2022, from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at Wallops. Credits: NASA
Media accreditation is open for the launch of the next commercial resupply services mission to deliver NASA science investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station.
Northrop Grumman is targeting liftoff of its Antares rocket and Cygnus spacecraft no earlier than 5:50 a.m. EST, Nov. 6, from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport’s Pad-0A at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Virginia.
Each resupply mission to the station delivers scientific investigations in the areas of biology and biotechnology, Earth and space science, physical sciences, and technology development and demonstrations.
Highlights of [space station research](https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/overview.html) facilitated by delivery aboard this Cygnus are:
– a [facility](https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Facility.html?#id=7599) and [study](https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=8743) that attempt to advance 3D biological printing of human tissue in space
– a study taking advantage of microgravity to better understand catastrophic mudflows that can occur after wildfires
– Uganda and Zimbabwe’s [first satellites](https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=8847) developed as a part of the BIRDS program, an interdisciplinary project for non-space faring countries
– an investigation into how microgravity influences [ovary function](https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=8759)
– an experiment that studies if changes space-grown plants undergo to adapt to microgravity can be [transmitted through seeds](https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=8336) to the next generation
Cargo resupply from U.S. companies ensures a national capability to deliver critical scientific research to the space station, significantly increasing NASA’s ability to conduct new investigations aboard humanity’s laboratory in space.
Learn more about Northrop Grumman’s commercial resupply missions at:
https://www.nasa.gov/northropgrumman
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Press Contacts
Lora Bleacher
?Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100
Keith Koehler
Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Va.
757-824-1579
Trina Patterson
Northrop Grumman, Chandler, Arizona
801-699-0943