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The cargo spacecraft Cygnus leaves the International space station (ISS) on may 11, reported by NASA on Wednesday.

Unmanned cargo unit owned by a private company, Northrup Grumman, arrived on the ISS in mid-February, bringing the orbit of 1.6 tons of equipment for the ISS, about tons of scientific cargo, and more than 750 pounds of cargo for the crew.

According to the American space Agency, after the truck leaves the station, it is traditionally linger in orbit for an experiment on the behavior of fire in weightlessness, and will launch a series of experimental mini-satellite.

It is planned that the cargo ship will descend from an orbit will burn in the upper layers of Earth’s atmosphere on may 25.