An Antares Rocket Will Launch Cargo to Space Station Saturday! How to Watch Live.
By Chelsea Gohd, Space.com Contributor | November 16, 2018 03:17pm ET
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The Northrop Grumman Antares rocket sits with the Cygnus spacecraft on Pad-0A at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
Credit: Joel Kowsky/NASA
On Saturday (Nov. 17) at 4:01 a.m. EST (0901 GMT), Northrop Grumman's Antares rocket will launch the Cygnus cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station as part of Northrop Grumman's NG-10 mission.
The cargo spacecraft will carry approximately 7,400 pounds of food, clothing, equipment and scientific experiments to the space station. Northrop Grumman's Antares rocket will launch with the spacecraft from Pad-0A at Virginia Space's Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. You can watch the launch live here on Space.com starting at 3:30 a.m. EST (0830 GMT), courtesy of NASA TV.
The Northrop Grumman Antares rocket launch will be visible along the eastern coast of the United States.
The Cygnus spacecraft will carry scientific equipment including a 3D-printing recycling device called the Refabricator, a protein-crystal-growing experiment in partnership with the Michael J. Fox Foundation, a carbon-capture experiment and much more. [Reusable Rocket Launch Systems: How They Work (Infographic)]
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