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Hurricane Isaias came ashore on the Florida Panhandle, a Cygnus cargo ship left the space station with heat shield experiments aboard, and the Federal Reserve published its latest look at family finances. In this edition: space, Cygnus XL Leaves the Space Station; technology, NASA Tests Heat Shields on a Cygnus Re-entry. Every fact comes straight from primary sources, listed below.
Northrop Grumman's Cygnus XL cargo spacecraft was released from the International Space Station's robotic arm on Oct. 9, NASA said, nearly six months after delivering about 11,000 pounds of supplies.
NASA is testing new heat shield materials by flying 12 small capsules inside a departing Cygnus cargo ship that will break apart on re-entry, the agency's Ames Research Center said Oct. 9.