04 April 2018
A storm hunter and space junk collector on its way to the ISS
... new weather phenomenon were finally captured on camera by ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen during his mission on the International Space Station in 2015. ASIM will therefore use a suite of instruments including light sensors and X- and gamma-ray...
02 February 2018
How a year in space affects your body
... you spend a year floating above the earth? In March 2015, American astronaut Scott Kelly headed to the International Space Station (ISS) to take part in a year-long study conducted by NASA to improve our knowledge on the medical, psychological and...
November 2018
Creating the ‘Space for Art Foundation’
... have four art spacesuits, three of which have travelled to and from the International Space Station (ISS). From this diverse and creative international team, we’ve formed the Space for Art Foundation, and we are on a mission to unite heroic children...
27 August 2019
Soyuz MS-14 successfully docks with ISS on second attempt
... spacecraft as it finally docks with the International Space Station nearly 72 hours after aborting its original ... approach." Soyuz MS-14 is the first Soyuz capsule to visit the space station without a human crew, as the main mission objective was to ...
10 April 2020
A recently discovered stellar black hole could be the most massive yet, say astronomers
..., NASA’s Swift observatory and their Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) – another instrument attached to the International Space Station (ISS), but this time devoted to the study of neutron stars. After detecting the signal from MAXI...
14 December 2020
Systems shutdown as ISS suffers from power and oxygen failures
...supply system in the American module, which has resulted in some of the equipment being turned off. The International Space Station is powered by light from the Sun which is captured by a number of solar panels attached to the US Segment, the Russian...
