Following NASA’s Johnson Space Center’s requested, and the Federal Communications Commission approved, post-Station mission extension, the NG-12 Cygnus spacecraft is now into an extended post-unberthing phase of its mission.
Cygnus had a pre-flight approval to perform two weeks of solo flight operations after leaving the Station before destructively re-entering. That solo flight operation has now been extended to 31 days in large part due to the planned February launch of the NG-13 Cygnus from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Virginia.