21 April 2021
Russia announces the first module of its new space station will be launched in 2025
...to a orbit higher than the one currently in use by the ISS. "We need to climb higher. <...> This will allow us to...Sea Route," he said. Since its launch in 1998, the ISS has become one of the most ambitious international collaborations in human history...
May 2021
In-situ propellant design for Mars ascent vehicles
...effects of microgravity, such as flame formation, bacteria/plant growth and astronaut biology, while cargo transfer to the ISS can be performed easily with existing launch vehicles. However, a major goal of the space community is to engender an Earth...
July 2021
Collaboration and competition in lunar exploration
... being demonstrated by ESA with its Commercial Partnership programme, which is preparing a commercial post-ISS LEO scenario by demonstrating ISS-based commercial partnerships. Buoyed by these successes in LEO, space agencies have started planning for...
August 2016
Space stations - drivers of cooperation
...undergoing tests prior to its launch in April 2012. As the ISS approaches the end of its planned life, China’s ‘Heavenly ...with China on the CSS after keeping it out of the ISS, there exists no reason why other nations cannot look at international...
January 2016
Danish Surprise for ISS Crew
...engineers happened to mention he was creating an espresso machine for the ISS. “If you do an espresso machine,” responded Schmidt, “I’ll do sweets... to send an extra special surprise to the ISS astronauts and he concluded his TEDxESA presentation with ...
September 2017
Engaging the private sector in space exploration
... rapid, simplified and low-cost access to the ISS. The cubes are small replaceable boxes in which customers...global satellite-based ‘machine-to-machine’ data services from the ISS.TELDASAT would enable monitoring of future space-based infrastructure,...
