The private spacecraft "Cygnus" decoupled from the ISS

After two months at the International Space Station, the private cargo ship "Cygnus" has left the ISS. German astronaut Alexander Gerst and his American colleague Serena Auñón-Chancellor used the ISS's robotic arm Sunday to decouple the cargo ship, as announced by the US Space Agency Nasa [19659004] "Cygnus" will still have two weeks for space tests. stay, suspend several satellites and finally burn with hundreds of kilograms of garbage on board when entering the Earth 's atmosphere at the end of July.

The freighter flew to the ISS in May. It had a total of about 3400 kilograms of supplies and scientific experiments on board – including interactions in the Earth 's magnetic field, global radio communications and the creation of the coldest point of the planet. universe.

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