international space station
SpaceX Postpones the Launch of Starlink Project
SpaceX Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, traded as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transportation company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded by Elon Musk in 2002 with the goal of reducing space transportation costs to launch the Mars colony. SpaceX has developed several launch vehicles, the StarLink satellite constellations, the Dragon Cargo […]
Soyuz rocket is set to launch today from Baikonur Cosmodrome at 07.12 a.m. EDT: Watch Live
Today on June 06, three astronauts will set out on the International Space Station Expedition 57 onboard Soyuz-FG rocket which is expected to lift off from Baikonur Cosmodrome at 07.12 a.m. PDT from the Launch Pad No. 1, the same pad used by Yuri Gagarin on his mission to become the first person in space […]
Today, three astronauts will return from the ISS
At Early Sunday on June 03, three astronauts who have spent almost five and a half month on the International Space Station (ISS) will finally head towards the Earth. The boarding procedure will start at 1:30 a.m. EDT (0530GMT) on the Soyuz spacecraft. Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, JAXA’s Norishige Kanai, and NASA’s astronaut Scott Tingle […]
China will launch its own space station starting as soon as 2020; China has invited UN members nations for contribution
China’s space agency is working in full swing to develop and send parts of China’s space station which is expected to become fully operational by 2022. Chinese space agency has sent invitations to all UN member states thereby inviting nations to conduct experiments and research on the space station as per the part of China’s […]
Students send seeds of broccoli to the ISS to figure out a way to grow plants in space
Scientists are trying to find out whether astronauts could grow plants in space at the International Space Station (ISS) in its extremely low gravity and they have been successful in many attempts. Recently, researchers packed a batch of six broccoli seeds onboard the Orbital ATK Cygnus spacecraft that was launched this week from the Wallops […]
Experiment on the ISS: CAL will cool down the temperature of atoms to absolute zero in fraction of seconds
The Antares rocket and Cygnus supply ship by Orbital ATK were recently launched to the International Space Station after almost a day’s delay. Cygnus carried a number of apparatus of which, one of the most exciting pieces of the instrument is called Cold Atom Laboratory or CAL. This ice chest-sized apparatus would allow scientists to […]
NASA to pay 15% more for resupply missions to ISS between 2020 and 2024
NASA, the U.S. space agency that looks after launching the resupply ships to the International Space Station will now have to pay more for comparatively lesser cargo to the space station. These findings came as a part of a new analysis was NASA will have to spend more to supply less cargo the station during […]
Two Russian cosmonauts set a new spacewalk record following an antenna repair
Two Russian astronauts have created history by breaking the previous record of the longest ever Russian spacewalk. During the second spacewalk of the year, the two cosmonauts spent 8 hours 13 minutes outside the International Space Station (ISS) surpassing the previous record of 8 hours and seven minutes set in 2013. On February 2, Friday, […]
JAXA to pay $3,500 to those who can spend two weeks in a simulated space station
The space agency of Japan has a great offer for the common public. It has announced that it will be offering a good sum of money to those who are willing live on a simulated space station that mimics the environment of outside space. Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) recently came up with the announcement […]