PARIS — A Cygnus cargo spacecraft arrived at the International Space Station Sept. 19 after a one-day delay caused by a thruster issue.

The station’s Canadarm2 robotic arm grappled the Northrop Grumman-built Cygnus XL spacecraft at 7:24 a.m. Eastern after the spacecraft arrived its designated capture point near the station. The arm will then berth the module to a port on the station’s Unity module.

Cygnus, launched to the ISS on the NG-23 mission Sept. 14, was scheduled to arrive at the station about 24 hours earlier. However, NASA announced late Sept. 16 it was postponing the spacecraft’s arrival after the main engine on Cygnus shut down prematurely during two burns earlier in the day.

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