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 ...

In the past, vehicles such as the European Space Agency's (ESA) Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) were also used to lift the ...

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 ...

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 ...

This isn’t the first time Schöfbänker managed to get shots of high-altitude orbital vehicles. Although both ISS and Starliner are public projects, glimpsing more secretive endeavors requires a ...

At ISS's altitude, a very thin atmosphere is still present. This thin atmosphere creates drag and over time can cause TOPO's predicted ISS trajectory to accumulate errors. Because of this ...

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