{"id":181711,"date":"2024-01-30T14:24:50","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T20:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/watch-spacex-launch-a-northrop-grumman-resupply-mission-to-the-iss"},"modified":"2024-01-30T14:24:50","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T20:24:50","slug":"watch-spacex-launch-a-northrop-grumman-resupply-mission-to-the-iss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/watch-spacex-launch-a-northrop-grumman-resupply-mission-to-the-iss","title":{"rendered":"Watch SpaceX launch a Northrop Grumman resupply mission to the ISS "},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/watch-spacex-launch-a-northrop-grumman-resupply-mission-to-the-iss3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX is teaming up with Northrop Grumman today to deliver more than 8,000 pounds of cargo, fresh food and scientific experiments to astronauts on the International Space Station.<\/p>\n<p>The NG-20 resupply mission will take off from the Space Force\u2019s Cape Canaveral in Florida on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at around 12:07 p.m. EST. Northrop\u2019s Cygnus cargo capsule will arrive at the International Space Station on February 1.<\/p>\n<p>Northrop has been launching Cygnus to the ISS for resupply missions using its own Antares rocket since 2013, with the exception of just two missions that used a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5. But Northrop <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/08\/02\/american-made-antares-rocket-debut-slips-to-2025\/\"> retired that version of Antares last year<\/a>, and the next version \u2014 an all-American launch vehicle called Antares 330, which it is developing with Firefly Aerospace \u2014 will not be ready to fly until around mid-2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX is teaming up with Northrop Grumman today to deliver more than 8,000 pounds of cargo, fresh food and scientific experiments to astronauts on the International Space Station. The NG-20 resupply mission will take off from the Space Force\u2019s Cape Canaveral in Florida on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at around 12:07 p.m. EST. Northrop\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}