Project Tango scheduled to berth onto the ISS on Wednesday, July 16, 6:39 am EDT

Orbital's Cygnus spacecraft holding supplies, food, including Project Tango, launched into orbit today! (Mission info on today's launch: Orbital)

A 1 min video showing how Project Tango will work with the NASA robot spheres:


The Cygnus spacecraft is loaded onto the payload of the Antares rocket. The Antares is the vehicle that launches the Cygnus to space. (source: NASA's Press Kit for Orb2)

This image shows the rocket components that will be separated during the launch to finally release the Cygnus into orbit:

Here's a great 2 min highlights video of the first Antares launch. Today was the 2nd of 8 resupply mission NASA has commissioned from Orbital. (sourc: IFLS). I love the many closeups of the rocket launching! Watching the launch, the most momentous moments for me were the MECO stage (main engine cut off), stage one separation, and the Fairing Separation.





From another angle of the launch, and specifically at 4:55, we see the animation of the fairing separation:



At 20:00 we see an animated simulation of the Cygnus expanding its solar arrays, then how it docks onto the ISS:



And another view from the ISS where the Cygnus is a small speck; view changes from the Cygnus, another animated simulation of the arm attaching onto the Cygnus:



It was cool to follow the live launch ("T minus 4 minutes!") and then searching the internets to learn more about such missions!
Yay Science!