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...
May 2022
Multinational training for interplanetary spaceflight crews
.... ISS-57 crew members Aleksey Ovchinin and Nick Hague using a Space Station simulator. ISS experience The International Space Station (ISS) community is an international crew, where people of different nationalities, with their own psychological...
February 2016
200 Days in Space: Living in Orbit
... reality. As human beings we can go to space and we have a destination there. It’s the International Space Station. I like to call it humanity’s outpost in space. Samantha Cristoforetti Without any doubt, it is the most amazing feat of engineering...
