Cygnus spacecraft went into free flight - Reuters

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© Photo: NASA

© Photo: NASA

MOSCOW, Oct. 22 – RIA Novosti. The manipulator of the International Space Station (ISS) released the private space cargo ship Cygnus, and the unit after a 23-day stay on the space station went to his last flight. Broadcast undocking procedure goes to the NASA site.

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Earlier, the truck was undocked from the American module Harmony, then put it away manipulator Canadarm a distance of about 10 meters, and 15.31 MSK opened his “fingers” and let him go in free flight.Earlier

ISS payload bay filled garbage. On Wednesday, the Cygnus include motors for braking and 22.18 MSK enter the atmosphere and burn up over the Pacific Ocean, east of New Zealand.

ship Cygnus (“The Swan”), developed by Orbital Sciences, was the second in the history of private space truck after the ship Dragon, created SpaceX. At the end of September, he delivered to the ISS about 600 kilograms of cargo – mostly clothes and food for astronauts.

Under the terms of the contract with NASA’s $ 1.9 billion, signed in 2008, Orbital shall provide eight regular cargo flights to the ISS (the current “demonstration” flight do not count) and deliver to the station 20 tons of cargo in 2016.