This is why we said that the orbital altitude of the ISS is ... shipping lanes and aircraft flight paths. Any pieces of the ISS that do survive atmospheric re-entry will sink to the ocean floor ...

The two NASA astronauts that have been stuck at the International Space Station might be able to return to Earth sooner than expected.

The ISS's orbit is slowly decaying. While it might seem a permanent fixture in the sky, the orbiting space laboratory is only about 400 km above the planet. There might not be a lot of atmosphere at ...

The orbital altitude of the International Space Station (ISS) will be adjusted ... identify and determine the location of enemy artillery guns, mainly mortars and rocket launchers If Brussels ...

The robotic arm delivered NASA astronaut Suni Williams to a worksite during a record-breaking spacewalk at the International ...

Beyond the ISS, Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser Cargo System (DCCS) may also serve future orbital installations in similar capacities. Milestones like Sierra Space’s Joint Test 10B are needed to c ...

Sometime after 2030, though, America plans to lock the doors on ISS, hand in the keys, and send it plunging into the sea. But this won't be the end of America's orbital adventures. Long before ISS ...

This gives a rough idea of just how incredibly empty Earth’s orbital planes are and why from the International Space Station you rarely notice any such space debris until a small bit slams into ...

Those are some of the questions explored in the novel Orbital, which won the Booker Prize late last year. In the book, author Samantha Harvey imagines the inner life of astronauts aboard the ISS. Host ...

Russia's space agency undergoes leadership change following the failure of its first lunar mission in 47 years. Yuri Borisov ...

It all comes down to the International Space Station's orbital velocity ... acting on an object to keep it following such a curved path a centripetal force, which is always directed toward ...

It all comes down to the International Space Station's orbital velocity, its height above the ground ... Scientists call the force acting on an object to keep it following such a curved path a ...