MOSCOW, May 12, /TASS/. The orbital altitude of the International Space Station (ISS) will be adjusted on May 20 before the arrival of a Soyuz MS-19 manned spacecraft, Russia’s State Space ...

The number of sunrises the crew will see is estimated based on the number of times the International Space Station (ISS) ...

However, only about half of those dents are caused by meteoroid strikes. At the ISS' altitude of between 230 and 285 miles (370 to 460 kilometers), half of the impacts are caused by space junk ...

Sunita Williams and her crew aboard the International Space Station will celebrate New Year 16 times as they orbit Earth, ...

The ISS always appears in the west, roughly speaking, crosses the sky and disappears into Earth's shadow to the east, taking between one and six minutes depending on the altitude. As it disappears ...

The debris was at a lower altitude than the ISS, and the astronauts returned to normal duties after spending about an hour in their vehicles out of an abundance of caution. Previously there was ...

Astronaut Don Pettit captured this image from the ISS, revealing two dwarf satellite galaxies above the horizon. Don Pettit/NASA Orbiting at an altitude of 250 miles (400 kilometers) above Earth ...

The ISS travels in low-Earth orbit (LEO) at an altitude of about 260 miles (420 kilometers) and an average speed of 17,150 miles per hour (27,600 kilometers per hour). It completes an orbit around ...

The International Space Station’s orbit is in LEO, at an altitude of approximately 250 miles.. ISS National Lab-sponsored ...

“Actually, these are Starlink satellites momentarily flashing sunlight towards the [ISS],” Pettit wrote ... may appear brighter due to their lower altitude. Regular Starlink satellites ...