NASA opens coverage for Northrop Grumman’s CRS-24 cargo launch to the ISS

NASA opened media accreditation for the CRS-24 cargo mission, the next Northrop Grumman Cygnus flight to the International Space Station, with launch targeted no earlier than April 8 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral. The spacecraft is carrying science investigations, supplies, and hardware to the orbital lab, and NASA says station crews will use Canadarm2 to capture Cygnus after arrival and berth it to Unity for unloading. That makes this a straightforward but important logistics story for the station's next few months of work.

CRS-24 is the next cargo flight that keeps ISS science and daily operations supplied for months.

The next visible milestone is launch day, followed by rendezvous and capture. If the mission stays on schedule, Cygnus will remain attached to station until October, so this April flight will support months of science work and day-to-day operations aboard the ISS.