NASA Adds Two Space Station Cargo Runs To Northrop’s Cygnus Manifest

Irene Klotz November 26, 2025

Northrop Grumman's CRS-23 spacecraft --the first of the Cygnus XL series, arrived at the ISS on Sept. 18. It was temporarily unberthed last week to provide clearance for the planned Nov. 27 arrival of the crewed Russian Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft, — Northrop Grumman's CRS-23 spacecraft—the first of the Cygnus XL series—arrived at the ISS on Sept. 18. It was temporarily unberthed last week to provide clearance for the planned Nov. 27 arrival of the crewed Russian Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft.

Credit: NASA

NASA has awarded Northrop Grumman two additional Commercial Resupply Services-2 (CRS-2) missions to the International Space Station (ISS), a sole-source contract due to requirements to berth, rather than dock, cargo ships during the lab’s last year. Terms of the agreement, posted on the agency’s...

Irene Klotz

Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.

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