美国轨道科学公司的“心宿二”运载火箭9月18日在位于NASA沃洛普斯飞行设施的中大西洋地区航天港发射了该公司首艘国际空间站货运飞船“天鹅座”1。船上载有700公斤货物,包括食品和衣物。在随后几天里,飞船对一些系统和功能进行了测试,包括开展一系列试验性机动,以验证飞船飞往空间站并在其附近机动的能力。在因船站数据链问题和为给一艘联盟号载人飞船让路而两度决定推迟后,飞船于9月29日同空间站交会,随后由站上人员操纵机械臂捕获,并安装到国际空间站 NASA’s “Albatron II” launch vehicle launched the company’s first space station cargo spacecraft “Cygnus” on September 18 at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at NASA’s Mount Phillips facility . The ship carries 700 kg of goods, including food and clothing. In the ensuing days, the spacecraft tested a number of systems and functions, including a series of pilot maneuvers to verify the capability of the spacecraft to fly to and maneuver the space station. After a duel decision was made twice due to problems with the data link in the ship and to give way to a Soyuz spacecraft, the spacecraft rendezvous with the space station on September 29 and was subsequently captured by a manned manipulator and installed on the International Space Station