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[b]Cygnus installed on station; cargo ops begin[/b] The "S.S. Patricia 'Patty' Hilliard Robertson" was installed on the International Space Station on Thursday (Feb. 1) by flight controllers in Mission Control Houston. The NG-20 Cygnus, carrying over 8,200 pounds of cargo and science experiments, was berthed to the station's Unity module at 7:14 a.m. EST (1214 UTC). Earlier at 4:59 a.m. EST, NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara, with NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli acting as backup, captured the Cygnus using the station's Canadarm2 robotic arm. Capture of the spacecraft was slightly delayed as flight control teams on the ground reconfigured a redundant radio communications system on Cygnus, which links up with the space station's C2V2 (Common Communications for Visiting Vehicles) system. C2V2 is the primary communications system between the space station and visiting spacecraft.
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