August 2016
Space stations - drivers of cooperation
... is almost irresistible. Ultimately, space stations like the ISS are an essential building block and...technological and economical hurdles. A rationale for cooperation The International Space Station orbiting at 400 km is a joint endeavour of...
August 2016
Long-term spaceflight and microbiological safety issues
...used to get condensation to the regeneration section of the mechanism. A fire detector unit broke down at the International Space Station (ISS) because of bio-corrosion of the needle that received the electric charge (Fig. 3). Visible growth of mould...
November 2016
Microgravity and space research: Bringing the commercial market into focus
... be taken over by the private sector and with a desire to focus public funding towards further space exploration, the US Congress made the International Space Station (ISS) a national lab. SpaceX Dragon commercial cargo craft approaches the orbiting...
July 2021
Collaboration and competition in lunar exploration
... of maintaining a sustainable presence in low Earth orbit (LEO). The International Space Station (ISS) programme remains the flagship programme for human spaceflight and international collaboration, although its longer term future remains uncertain...
04 August 2018
First NASA Commercial Crew revealed
... Crew Program. Following the retirement of the shuttle, US astronauts have been hitching a ride to the International Space Station (ISS) in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft which lifts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. However after 2019...
23 December 2019
New launch target for SpaceX abort test
...-100 Starliner, under the Commercial Crew Program. Both capsules are meant to carry crew members to the International Space Station (ISS) and back. NASA plans to buy the flights from each company as a service rather than owning the...
