Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE:ORB) announced that the first pressurized cargo module (PCM) for its Cygnus(TM) cargo logistics spacecraft has arrived at NASA`s Wallops Flight Facility in eastern Virginia. Following a transatlantic flight from its manufacturing location in Italy, the PCM was unloaded from the Antonov An-26 transport aircraft in its specialized shipping container and was brought to NASA`s H-100 payload processing facility where it will be uncrated later this week and prepared for integration with the spacecraft service module. Together, the PCM and the service module will form the first operational Cygnus that will be launched to the International Space Station (ISS) to carry out a demonstration mission under the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) joint NASA and Orbital research and development program.

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