Cygnus will remain at the space station until Dec. 4, when the spacecraft will depart the station and deploy several CubeSate before its fiery reentry into Earth’s atmosphere
The JEM ORU Transfer Interface (JOTI) was removed and Multi-Purpose Experiment Platform (MPEP) was installed in preparation for upcoming an upcoming NanoRacks CubeSat Deployer (NRCSD) deployment series.
NRCSD#13 November, 16 or 17
On November 8, RKK Energia officially informed Roskosmos that the company had committed to the launch of the MLM Nauka module on Dec. 20, 2018.
EcAMSat and TechEdSat-6 will be heading to ISS for Kibo module deploy with ASTERIA, Dellingr, and OSIRIS-3U already aboard.
November 12 12:19:54.6 - Cygnus (OA-8) launch
During the coverage of the solar array deploy, the NASA commentator said launch took place at 07:19:51 AM Eastern time (12:19:51 UTC).
Capture time: 10.04 UTC by Paolo Nespoli in command of SSRMS Inside Cupola.
Cygnus S.S. Eugene Cernan, Berthing complete at 12.15 UTC
11:30 p.m., Wednesday, December 13 - ISS Expedition 53/Soyuz MS-05 Undocking Coverage (Ryazanskiy, Bresnik, Nespoli); undocking scheduled at 12:16 a.m. ET Dec. 14) (Starts at 11:45 p.m.) (all channels)2 a.m., Thursday, December 14 - ISS Expedition 53/Soyuz MS-05 Deorbit Burn and Landing Coverage (Ryazanskiy, Bresnik, Nespoli); deorbit burn scheduled at 2:44 a.m. ET; landing near Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan scheduled at 3:38 a.m. ET) (Starts at 2:15 a.m.) (all channels)
Friday, 11/17: Cubesat deployer installation
Starting this week with some #CubeSat deployments! #EcAMSat was successfully deployed from @Space_Station at 08:05:00 GMT
Second #CubeSat deployment this morning complete - #ASTERIA was deployed from our #NRCSD at 12:25:01 GMT from #ISS
We have our third deployment today complete - @NASAGoddard's #Deillingr is now in low-Earth orbit, deployed via the #NRCSD on @Space_Station at 17:02:02 GMT.
The #TechEdSat6 #CubeSat was deployed from the #NRCSD 08:25:00 GMT.
All deployments are now complete for this airlock cycle. #OSIRIS3U entered orbit at 11:40:00 GMT
RemoveDEBRIS is due for launch in January next year.
Did CRS-14 slip a month?[evertiq] Denmark’s next major space project prepared for launchQuoteThe Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor (ASIM), is on its way to the US to be prepared for launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida to the International Space Station (ISS).The launch is scheduled for Tuesday, 13 March 2018, and ASIM is planned for launch on the SpaceX Falcon 9 launcher.