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Soyuz Crew left Space Station ahead of ISS 20-year Milestone
The Russian Soyuz MS-16 spacecraft left the ISS (International Space Station) and landed in Dzhezkagan, a town in the Kazakh Steppes at 8.45 am Kazakh time on Oct 22, 2020. The landing was supported by a retro-rocket and a parachute. The spacecraft covered 3136 orbits of the Earth measuring nearly 83 million miles. The return […]
A Minor Leak was detected in the International Space Station
On 29 September 2020, a small air leak was found on the ISS (International Space Station). The astronauts Anatoly Ivanishin, Ivan Vagner, and Chris Cassidy on the International Space Station (ISS) were awakened to quickly seal the hatches between the compartments. The search for the leak was a tedious process and progressively worsening. The crew […]
Facility Management services Market by leading research firm| Aramark, JLL, ISS, OCS and Forecast 2020 To 2027
A new informative report titled as the global Facility Management services Market has recently published in the extensive repository of Contrive Datum Insights. The global Facility Management services research is often attributed to several applicable business strategies to enlarge the businesses. Additionally, it offers a comparative study of key players along with their business frameworks […]
Here are few Russian space traditions that every cosmonaut must follow
Russia has its own customs and traditions to follow before, during, and after every spaceflight launch which has become integral ever since it was started by Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space back in 1961 before his first launch. There are many activities that Russian cosmonauts and astronauts from other space agencies do in […]
NASA’ Dawn spacecraft to study dwarf planet Ceres up-closely in its new orbit
Engineers operating the NASA’s Dawn spacecraft have initiated maneuvers that will bring the satellite to the lowest and final orbit over the planet Ceres. The final destination orbit is expected to be at an altitude of 30 miles above the planet’s surface which is ten times closer than the previous orbit that Dawn has been […]
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 […]