23 September 2020
Third move for the ISS this year to avoid space debris
... when data on the event showed that some of the debris was suspected to be in an orbit shared by the International Space Station. Other reports on India's missile test also confirmed that at least a dozen fragments reached altitudes above 1,000...
08 January 2021
Asgardia’s project for new module to expand ISS
...to build and supply a new node module for the International Space Station (ISS) are revealed in an exclusive article in the winter issue of the global space industry publication ROOM Space Journal. Asgardia - represented by three Austrian-based legal...
01 May 2017
Canada boosts its space sector with $80.9 million investment
...Economic Development. Last year the Canadian government helped extend the countries participation in the International Space Station to 2024 by providing its space agency with $379 million and it has recently provided up to 13 grants of $200,000 each...
13 April 2020
Russia to cut launch rates after price war with SpaceX
... Pentagon. After NASA retired its space shuttles in 2011 to make way for a new space exploration program, the US space agency has relied on Russia to transport its astronauts to the International Space Station; seats that reportedly cost $70 million...
28 August 2020
Clumps of bacteria could survive interplanetary journey, new study says
... team strapped samples of different bacterial thicknesses in aluminum plate wells in exposure panels attached to the outside of the International Space Station (ISS). The dried Deinococcus colonies were then left for one, two and three year durations...
22 June 2020
Virgin Galactic announces an agreement with NASA for private orbital spaceflight to the ISS
... company, announced today the signing of a Space Act Agreement with NASA’s Johnson Space Center to encourage commercial participation in orbital human spaceflight to the International Space Station (“ISS”) while enabling the development of a robust...
