A load resupply Atlas V dispatch Tuesday will commence a bustling time of movement for the International Space Station.
Orbital ATK's Cygnus shuttle is set to dispatch on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41, at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
The 30-minute dispatch window opens on April 18 at 11:11 a.m. A reinforcement date is booked for April 19.
The load container will convey more than 7,600 pounds of fundamentals to the space explorers living
on the space station, alongside science research and equipment for the circling lab.
Cygnus is additionally conveying 38 CubeSats as a major aspect of the NanoRacks QB50 program.
A large number of the examinations are driven by understudies from more than 23 nations around the globe, as indicated by NASA.
The mission's OA-7 Cygnus case was named after previous space explorer John Glenn, the primary man to circle Earth. Glenn kicked the bucket on Dec. 8.
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