Tag: space station

Current configuration of ISS.

January 8, 2023

Crew Dragon 5 and Soyuz MS-22 are the only safe landings for humans. Everything else is filled with waste and burned up on its journey through the Earth’s atmosphere. The leak is in Soyuz MS-22. The plan is to launch Soyuz MS-23 unmanned in autonomous mode and dock with the ISS if Soyuz MS-22 is…

Amazing new record!

November 13, 2022

The Tianzhou 5 cargo spacecraft launched on Saturday morning has docked with the Chinese Space Station around noon, setting a world record for the fastest rendezvous and docking operations between two spacecraft. China’s cargo spacecraft Tianzhou5, delivering supplies for the space station, conducted a fast automated rendezvous and docking with the combination of the space…

New module added on chinese space station

November 10, 2022

The Shenzhou-14 crew currently on board the Chinese space station has successfully entered the brand-new Mengtian lab module. Unlike the Wentian lab module, Mengtian doesn’t have a sleeping cabin for the astronauts, but it comes with more experiment cabinets instead. The Shenzhou-14 taikonauts will have a lot to unpack in the next couple of days.

‘Gorilla’ on space station

January 16, 2022

The space station is located at an altitude of 400 km above the Earth. What if a gorilla suddenly came there? NASA astronaut Tim Piet once proved that a gorilla can fly in space without touching the ground, even if he knows there is no such possibility. Screenwriter Spence Todd shared a video of that…

China launches its longest-ever crewed mission for space station construction

November 28, 2021

The Long March 2F rocket carrying Shenzhou-12 manned spacecraft with 3 astronauts will be launched from Jiuquan Satellites Launching center in order to dock with the Tianhe core module & Tianzhou-2 cargo spacecraft module in the coming week, probably on 17.06. According to schedule, CNSA will also carry out the launching missions of the Tianzhou-3…

First female astronaut to set foot on china’s space station

November 28, 2021

Wang Yaping, who is from Yantai, Shandong E China, will be the first female astronaut to set foot on China’s space station, and will become the first Chinese female astronaut to leave footprints in the universe. She will also give a lesson while in orbit as what she did 8 years ago.

International Space Station for its research activities 21 years old.

November 4, 2021

This is an excellent example of international cooperation in the field of scientific research. The station is maintained by five NASA-led space agencies. In addition to NASA in the United States, JAXA in Japan, Roscosmos in Russia, and CSA in Canada, the European Space Agency (ESA). The space exploration scene, which was once in the…

Nauka spacecraft

October 3, 2021

The spacecraft is a module developed by the Russian space agency Roscosmos. It will serve as Russia’s major research center on the International Space Station. The spacecraft was launched in collaboration with NASA (United States), Roscosmos (Russia), Jaxa (Japan), ESA (Europe) and CSA (Canada). The ‘Nauka’, launched by Russia from the Bikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan…

The ISS orbits the earth 16 times a day. Have you ever wondered why you can only see the ISS sometimes after going so many times? There are many reasons for this.

October 2, 2021

The plant rotates 16 times a day, but each time it passes several places above the ground. This is due to the rotation of the earth. The second reason is that we often do not see the plant. That is the simple reason. We can only see the plant at sunset or sunrise. This is…