Imagery from the International Space Station is complementary to data collected from traditional remote sensing platforms. The ISS orbits the Earth every 90-minutes and about 16 times a day. It travels in low Earth orbit at a vantage point about 240 miles (400 kilometers) above Earth's surface...
BEIJING, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) -- China successfully conducted a transposition test of the Tianzhou-2 cargo craft using its space station's robotic arm Thursday morning. It was the first time that the robotic arm operated a large in-orbit spacecraft for a transfer test, according to the China ...
Outside the cabin, Zhong said, there are flagship research facilities like three large payload mount points, two exposure experiment platforms, and the Xuntian Space Telescope that will fly independently in the same orbit as the space station. Such facilities will support scientific research on spac...
Screen image captured at Beijing Aerospace Control Center on Sept. 30, 2022 shows the Wentian lab module preparing to conduct transposition. China's space station lab module Wentian successfully completed in-orbit transposition at 12:44 p.m. Friday, according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMS...
Orbiting the planet without actually hitting it is possible due to the fast speed at which the space station is traveling, which gives it a curved path that precisely matches the curvature of the Earth. If you think about it, this obsession with weightlessness is kind of ironic. Although ...
The Shenzhou XVII crew members, consisting of Tang Hongbo, Tang Shengjie and Jiang Xinlin, were launched to the Tiangong space station last October, and have remained in orbit for about half a year. China launched the Shenzhou XVIII ...
This paper investigates the orbit determination problem for fuel station (FS) in multiple Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO) spacecrafts refueling mission. A novel K-M-N transportation network to solve this general refueling problem is proposed, which contains several FSs with their reusable servicing space...
Three Chinese recently arrived at the country’s new space station in another step forward for the growing space power. The three-member crew stayed for three months in the station’s main living space1(call) a module. The module is named Tian he,2means “Harmony of the Heavens” in Chin...
"But we're ready for our guests and the new residents of the International Space Station, Kevin, Oleg and Evgeny," she added. "It is going to be great to have them up here and like I said, we're cleaning house and making sure it is all ready for them." ...
With the construction of the International Space Station, humans have been continuously living and working in space for 22 years. Microbial studies in space and other extreme environments on Earth have shown the ability for bacteria and fungi to adapt an