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Cygnus Unmanned Cargo Spacecraft Departs from International Space Station. / October 24, 2013 /

On 22 October 2013 at 14:00 Moscow Time, the Sygnus cargo ship (Cygnus is the Latinized Greek word for swan and a northern constellation) was undocked from Harmony Module (Node 2), the ISS U.S. segment using the Canadarm2 manipulator.
At 15:31:45 Moscow Time, the spacecraft separated from the manipulator. According to the flight program, the cargo spacecraft will be deorbited on 23 October 2013.
Cygnus was launched to the ISS on 18 September and docked with the station was on 29 September 2013.

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