Track the orbit location of the International Space Station in real-time. See the map showing current position, altitude, orbit path for ISS and many other satellites.
The International Space Station (seen here in 2018) has been continuously occupied by astronauts since 2000. NASA Imagine you wake up in the morning, look out your window and see the vast blue horizon of Earth and the blackness of space. Our world stretches out beneath you. Mountains, ...
The International Space Station serves primarily as a research laboratory and is the largest ever launched into orbit. The station offers an advantage over spacecraft such as NASA's Space Shuttle because it is a long-term platform in the space environment, allowing long-duration studies to be ...
The Astrobees are NASA's next generation free-flying robots for the International Space Station (ISS). In this paper we update Astrobee development status, describe its software, and the ground facilities used for testing. We also describe initial uses of Astrobees as a research and educational...
Space Station lifetime Barring a catastrophic malfunction or damaging impacts from space debris, NASA should be able to keep the International Space Station in operation well into the 2020s. The current official goal is 2024, but NASA managers believe that with a little luck — and steady fundin...
As the station travels around Earth at around 17,500 mph, the astronauts on board experience 16 sunrises and 16 sunsets in the space of 24 hours. The movement through space also means that the solar arrays are constantly adjusting to the best position for capturing the sun’s rays for energ...
If all goes well, López-Alegría and Villadei will monitor an automated approach to the space station, catching up from behind and below to set up a docking at the lab's forward port at 5:15 a.m. Saturday. They'll be welcomed aboard by the station's current seven-member crew:Soyuz...
Step 3: Build The International Space Station Creating The ISS Sphere In this next step, I use Gatsby Functions to position a sphere that represents the International Space Station as it orbits the globe. I do this by repeatedly calling anaxios.getrequest from apollfunction and setting the resp...
International Space Station (ISS), which is the only space habitat currently in orbit with a long-term history of human habitation. Surfaces of the crew resupply vehicles1and cargo destined to the ISS are cleaned to minimize microbial contamination and protect crew health. Nevertheless, the ...
NASA astronaut and current space station inhabitant Don Pettit seems to have the luck of the stars. During SpaceX’s sixth test flight of its massive Starship rocket from Boca Chica, Texas, on Tuesday, the International Space Station (ISS) just happened to be passing directly above -- some ...