View larger. | Are you in this area on Sunday? Look up! This map indicates when (in seconds) and where to look up in the sky after the launch on Sunday, February 9, 2020 of a Northrop Grumman Antares rocket, going up from Wallops, carrying the company’s Cygnus cargo spacecraft on a resupply mission to ISS. The launch is targeted for 5:39 p.m. EST Sunday. Image via NASA.
On Sunday, February 9, 2020, the next resupply services mission to the International Space Station (ISS) is scheduled to launch from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Given clear skies and good viewing conditions, the launch may be visible to residents throughout the mid-Atlantic region and possibly the East Coast of the United States. See the map above. This will be Northrop Grumman’s 13th commercial resupply mission to ISS, using its Cygnus cargo spacecraft. The mission is scheduled to launch on an Antares rocket.
If you’re not in the U.S. mid-Atlantic region, you can also watch live coverage of the Cygnus launch on NASA TV and the agency’s website, beginning Sunday at 22:00 UTC (5 p.m. EST) Translate UTC to your time.
Target time for launch is 22:39 UTC (5:39 p.m. EST). Watch here.
The Cygnus spacecraft, loaded with approximately 8,000 pounds (3,600 kg) of research, crew supplies, and hardware, will arrive at the space station on Tuesday, February 11. ISS astronauts will capture Cygnus with the station’s robotic arm and install the spacecraft.
Cygnus is scheduled to stay at the space station until May 11, when it will depart the orbiting laboratory. Cygnus will dispose of several tons of trash during a fiery reentry into Earth’s atmosphere on May 25.
A Northrop Grumman Antares rocket, with Cygnus resupply spacecraft onboard, launches from Pad-0A of NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia November 2, 2019. Image via NASA/ Bill Ingalls.
Bottom line: Watch launch of Cygnus resupply mission to the ISS on February 9, 2020.
Source:
https://earthsky.org/space/watch-cygnus-launch-iss-feb9-2020