The US cargo spacecraft Cygnus was released from the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday.<br />”<br />”In a tweet, NASA said, the cargo spacecraft was successfully released at 4:16 GMT. It said at the time of release, the station was flying over the Pacific Ocean, just west of the coast of Peru.<br />”<br />”The operation was controlled by US astronaut Anne McClain and her Canadian colleague David Saint-Jacques. It will now perform a 17-day nanosatellite deployment mission and after that, on February 25, will burn over the Pacific Ocean while entering the atmosphere.<br />”<br />”Cygnus, belonging to American aerospace company, Northrop Grumman,&nbsp;was launched on Nov. 17, 2018, on an Antares 230 rocket from Virginia and arrived at the station on&nbsp; November 19 for the company’s 10th NASA-contracted commercial resupply mission to the station.