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As competition in the new space race ramps up with China, the United States is preparing to deorbit the International Space Station. If a replacement is not ready by 2028, China may become the ...
After a nominal two-day free flight, it docked with the zenith (space facing) port of the ISS's Poisk module on 1 June at 11:46:11 UTC. [4] After a nearly six-month stay at the ISS supporting Expedition 71, Progress MS-27 undocking on 19 November 2024, at 12:53 UTC, to make way for a new cargo vehicle. After a free flight of about three and a ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 9 January 2025. Inhabited space station in low Earth orbit (1998–present) "ISS" redirects here. For other uses, see ISS (disambiguation). International Space Station (ISS) Oblique underside view in November 2021 International Space Station programme emblem with flags of the original signatory states ...
The International Space Station programme is tied together by a complex set of legal, political and financial agreements between the fifteen nations involved in the project, governing ownership of the various components, rights to crewing and utilisation, and responsibilities for crew rotation and resupply of the International Space Station.
Axiom Mission 3, launching on Crew Dragon. 14-day commercial flight of four astronauts to the ISS. [20] 20 January 06:28 [22] Qaem 100: Shahroud Space Center: IRGC: Soraya: ISA: Low Earth Communications: In orbit: Operational First successful orbital flight of Qaem 100. 23 January 04:03 [23] Kinetica 1: Y3 Jiuquan LS-130 CAS Space: Taijing-1-03 ...
The process of assembling the International Space Station (ISS) has been under way since the 1990s. Zarya , the first ISS module, was launched by a Proton rocket on 20 November 1998. The STS-88 Space Shuttle mission followed two weeks after Zarya was launched, bringing Unity , the first of three node modules, and connecting it to Zarya .
SpaceX and NASA on Sunday successfully launched their joint Crew-8 mission to the International Space Station from the NASA Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The spacecraft was an Enhanced Cygnus, named the S.S. Patricia "Patty" Hilliard Robertson in honor of the NASA astronaut who died in a plane crash prior to being assigned to a crew to fly to the ISS. NG-20 was the first launch of a Cygnus spacecraft after Northrop Grumman exhausted the supply of its Antares 230+ rocket.