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[b]SS Robert Lawrence departs space station[/b] Northrop Grumman's NG-13 Cygnus spacecraft, the "S.S. Robert Lawrence," departed the International Space Station on Monday (May 11) at 12:09 p.m. EDT (1609 GMT), three months after arriving at the orbiting lab to deliver 7,500 pounds of supplies and scientific experiments to the orbiting laboratory. With Expedition 63 commander Chris Cassidy monitoring from aboard the station, ground controllers in Houston sent commands to the Canadarm2 robotic arm to release the cargo spacecraft after it was remotely unbolted from the Earth-facing port of the Unity module and maneuvered into its release position. Within 24 hours of its release, the Cygnus will begin its secondary mission – hosting the Spacecraft Fire Safety Experiment–IV (Saffire-IV), which provides an environment to safely study fire in microgravity. It also will deploy a series of cubesats before Northrop Grumman flight controllers in Dulles, Virginia initiate the Cygnus' deorbit to burn up in Earth's atmosphere on May 29 or May 30.
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