August 2016
Flying in formation - why China and the rest of the world should collaborate
... and Japan, as well as most of Europe. China’s free-flying telescope could also be serviced by the ISS if needed. International Space Station partners will face important choices after its retirement Politically, and as already stated, all this would...
12 March 2015
Russian space agency endorses ISS until 2024
..., but only the Russian Progress logistics freighter has the power to de-orbit the space station at the end of its lifetime. The International Space Station’s other partners have not formally signed on for participation in the program after 2020...
10 December 2015
ISS Crew have undocked and are heading for Earth
...for three crew members aboard the International Space Station (ISS) the journey will soon be over. Expedition 45 Flight Engineers Kjell Lindgren of NASA, Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos (Russian Federal Space Agency) and Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace...
12 October 2018
Soyuz investigation focuses on second stage failure
...on upcoming crewed flights to the International Space Station (ISS). A Progress supply ship is scheduled for launch at ...19 and 25 October to replace a set of batteries in the Space Station’s solar power system will be deferred but two upcoming US supply ...
January 2021
Asgardia’s project for a new module to expand Space Station
... overview of the project and the industrial partnership arranged to deliver it. Over the past decade, the International Space Station partnership has continually addressed the future of research in - and exploitation of - low Earth orbit (LEO) beyond...
October 2021
Russia and China – a new space axis
... lunar base prompted speculation that the two countries would also consider joint space station operations. By the start of the 2020s, the International Space Station was ageing, most evident in persistent minor leaks in the Zvezda module. Reports...
