MOSCOW, May 18. /TASS/. Russia’s Mission Control Centre (MCC) has successfully conducted an operation to adjust the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS), a rocket and space industry ...

The International Space Station (ISS) on the other hand is a large piece of hardware — it’s about the size of a football field, and according to NASA it’s the second brightest object in the ...

As preliminary data suggest, the ISS orbit was raised by 2.3 km to 416.43 km above the Earth’s surface MOSCOW, December 22. /TASS/. The orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) was raised ...

Dragon rendezvoused with the space station this morning (April 22), docking with the orbital lab at 8:40 a.m. ET. A SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule has arrived at the International Space Station (ISS ...

Today (Nov. 8), for the first time, Dragon performed an orbit-raising maneuver to stabilize the ISS's trajectory in low-Earth orbit. Such maneuvers are routine for the orbital lab, which requires ...

The ISS orbits Earth at 28,000 km/h, completing a full orbit every 90 minutes. This speed brings astronauts from daylight to darkness roughly every 45 minutes, creating an intense day-night cycle.