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[b]Astronauts Release U.S. Spacecraft from Station[/b] Northrop Grumman's Cygnus spacecraft was released from the Canadarm2 at 11:16 a.m. EST [on Friday, Feb. 8] and has departed the International Space Station. After an extended mission to deploy several CubeSats in multiple orbits, Cygnus is scheduled to be deorbited on Feb. 25 to enter the Earth's atmosphere and burn up harmlessly over the Pacific Ocean. Expedition 58 Flight Engineers Anne McClain of NASA and David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency used the station's robotic arm to release the craft, dubbed the "SS John Young," after ground controllers unbolted the cargo vehicle from the Earth-facing port of the Unity module earlier this morning. This was the seventh flight of an enhanced Cygnus spacecraft, and the fourth using Northrop Grumman's upgraded Antares 230 launch vehicle featuring new RD-181 engines that provide increased performance and flexibility.
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