BREAKING From Bill Harwood of #CBSNews:
Something is wrong with the Northrop Grumman #Cygnus that launched earlier today on a #SpaceX #Falcon9 from #CCSFS.
*****
Mission control just alerted the ISS crew to a possible issue with the Cygnus cargo ship: "Just to let you guys know, good comm with Cygnus, we're going to have solar array deploy in about an hour. The first two burns were not performed by Cygnus, so they're re-assessing what's the current state of the burn plan."
@WordsmithFL It's a cargo module. Presumably this is inconvenient not life threatening.
@Coctaanatis Somewhere between inconvenient and life-threatening. The #ISS crew rely on constant runs by US commercial cargo ships and Russian Progress ships for food, clothing, supplies, water, and the experiments they run. Typically the crew has about a three-month supply of food. If lost, this will reduce their reserves.
And let's not overlook the experiments. Some researchers invested millions just to get to this point.