25 February 2022
Space Station rides above international conflict
...the fabric of the International Space Station, apart from through its membership of ESA, the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, renowned for his off the cuff comments, also waded into the debate at the end of the week. Speaking to the floor of the...
November 2016
Hi-tech greenhouse to test plant cultivation technologies in Antarctica
... Standard Payload Rack (ISPR) cultivation system for potential testing onboard the International Space Station (ISS). Furthermore, a Future Exploration Greenhouse (FEG) is designed with respect to future planetary bio-regenerative life support...
13 March 2015
Russian space agency endorses ISS until 2024
... 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. The European Space Agency plans to put forward a proposal for more space station...
04 April 2018
A storm hunter and space junk collector on its way to the ISS
... these 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...
04 November 2022
NASA’s climate change mineral dust detector
Critical elements of a new instrument attached to the International Space Station (ISS) this summer, and designed to examine the chemical composition of atmospheric mineral dust, is powered by hardware from high-performance electronics company Alpha ...
August 2016
Flying in formation - why China and the rest of the world should collaborate
... Salyut space stations of the former Soviet Union, the International Space Station (ISS) with Tiangong 1, as well as short-term overlaps of two generations of the Salyut space stations. However, in all these cases, the stations worked independently...
