Enlarge / Roscosmos head Dmitry Rogozin has been tweeting like he’s unhinged since Russia invaded Ukraine. (credit: Yegor AleyevTASS via Getty Images) It has now been half a month since Russia invaded Ukraine, setting into motion a set of consequences that have reverberated around the world. In the space domain, this has led to a […]
Enlarge / The International Space Station, as seen in November 2021. Prominent at center in this view are the cymbal-shaped UltraFlex solar arrays of the Northrop Grumman Cygnus space freighter. (credit: NASA) The International Space Station is now more than two decades old. And while primary construction of the orbiting laboratory ended a little more […]
The space station is being threatened by an unexpected cloud of debris. (credit: NASA) The seven astronauts and cosmonauts onboard the International Space Station sheltered inside their respective spacecraft, a Crew Dragon and Soyuz, on Monday morning as the orbiting laboratory passed through an unexpected debris field. This was not a pre-planned collision avoidance maneuver […]