February 2018
European centre shifts emphasis to deep space missions
... training, medical operations and astronaut operations/support expertise in Europe. While currently focused on the International Space Station (ISS) programme, a large part of EAC’s competencies is relevant for any future human spaceflight programme...
October 2018
Funding the space frontier – a moment that changed the Universe
... shift now underway. It happened at 5:28 am EDT on 30 April 2001, hurtling through space at 17,100 mph, 250 miles above the Earth, the airlock hatch on the International Space Station (ISS) opened and a small, balding older man (who one commentator...
June 2021
The coolest experiment on the ISS
... applications of CAL’s research. The Cold Atom Laboratory is a facility on the International Space Station (ISS) which utilises the unique microgravity environment in space. In July 2018, scientists used the lab to produce Bose-Einstein condensate...
October 2025
The law as a last line of defence when space debris hit home
... mount batteries to an exposed cargo pallet. The pallet was part of a 2600 kg payload released from the International Space Station (ISS) on 11 March 2021, following the delivery and replacement of new batteries, with the expectation that the payload...
12 April 2016
ULA teams up with Bigelow
... provider. The goal is to launch the first of two B330s in 2020 and ideally that would be attached to the International Space Station (ISS), which would require NASA's approval, said Bigelow Aerospace founder and president Robert Bigelow. "Each B330...
12 October 2018
Soyuz investigation focuses on second stage failure
... FG booster and it is not yet clear what impact the abort might have on upcoming crewed flights to the International Space Station (ISS). A Progress supply ship is scheduled for launch at the end of the month and the...
