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Space & Cosmos
Space station orbital data now available
A long-exposure photo taken by NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick shows star trails, streaks of light over a city, and two Roscosmos crew ships, a Soyuz MS-26 docked to the Lasvet module. (foreground) and Soyuz MS-25 (back) docked to the Lasvet module. The Prichal docking module as the International Space Station orbited 425 miles above central China. Credit: NASA Space station…
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Garbage compactor heading to space station
A prototype trash compactor will be tested on the International Space Station in 2026. Credit: Sierra Space Astronauts on the International Space Station emit a fair amount of trash, fill cargo ships, deorbit, and burn up in the atmosphere. Now, Sierra Space has been awarded a contract to build a trash compactor for the space station. The device compresses space…
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Image: Astronauts take photos of Earth from the International Space Station
Credit: NASA/Don Pettit Earth’s city lights streak through this long-exposure photo taken by NASA astronaut Don Pettit on October 24, 2024. The green glow of Earth’s atmosphere is also visible on the horizon. Since the station became operational in November 2000, the crew has produced hundreds of thousands of images like this through crew Earth observations. Their photos of the…
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Chinese space station crew returns after 6 months in orbit
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Three Chinese crew members returned to Earth early Monday after staying at the Tiangong space station for more than six months, state news agency Xinhua said. Ye Guangfu, Li Cong and Li Guangshou were all in “good health” after landing in the return capsule of the spacecraft Shenzhou at the Dongfeng landing site in Inner Mongolia,…
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