Overview

• Canadarm2 captured Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL at 7:24 a.m. Eastern, with NASA astronaut Jonny Kim at the controls, before berthing to the Unity module.
• Engine shutdowns during two non-sequential burns were traced to a conservative onboard safeguard, and teams executed a revised maneuver plan without further issues.
• The uncrewed cargo ship delivered about 11,000 pounds (5,000 kg) of food, research equipment and station hardware for the seven-person crew.
• This first flight of the stretched Cygnus variant boosts capacity by roughly 33% and launched Sept. 14 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral.
• The spacecraft is slated to remain at the station until spring 2026 before departing for a routine, destructive reentry with station trash.