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[b]SS Ellison Onizuka departs space station[/b] The S.S. Ellison Onizuka is now flying free of the International Space Station. Flight controllers on Saturday (Nov. 20) sent the commands to release Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft from the Canadarm2 robotic arm after earlier detaching Cygnus from the Earth-facing port of the Unity module. At 11:01 a.m. EST (1601 GMT), the time of release, the station was flying about 260 miles over the South Pacific Ocean. The Cygnus spacecraft successfully departed the space station more than three months after delivering about 8,000 pounds of scientific investigations and supplies to the orbiting laboratory. The Onizuka will re-enter Earth's atmosphere on Wednesday, Dec. 15. The Kentucky Re-Entry Probe Experiment (KREPE), which is stowed inside the Cygnus, will take measurements to demonstrate a thermal protection system for spacecraft and their contents during the re-entry, which can be difficult to replicate in ground simulations.
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