The P1 truss will attach to the port side of the center truss, S0, and will be the third truss assembled to the ISS as part of a total 10-truss, girder-like structure that will ultimately extend ...

The Progress MS-31 spacecraft, loaded with 2,625 kg of cargo for the Station, is scheduled to launch on Thursday, July 3, at ...

Set for a Feb. 12 launch from Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Fla., the STS-119/15A mission will install the S6 truss element to kick off what promises to be a busy year at the ISS. The truss section ...

The most significant difference, if we were to design the ISS today, is that we no longer have a Space Shuttle to assemble the vehicle. That would dramatically change the designs for all of the ...

When the ISS is completed, the truss is expected to generate more than 80 kilowatts of power. The power systems also come with external cooling systems necessary to dissipate the excess heat the ...

Suni Williams, the commander of the International Space Station (ISS), recently embarked on her eighth spacewalk, a significant achievement after overcoming previous safety hurdles. Last summer, a ...

Inside the space station, Curbeam's fellow STS-116mission specialists JoanHigginbotham and Sunita Williams, now an ISS crewmember, wielded the ISSrobotic arm to maneuver the $11 million P5 truss ...

The ISS not only contains a lot of valuable equipment but also useful resources, such as the metal in its truss and its solar panels, that has been taken to space at great expense.

Figure 2: ISS Main solar panel view . Figure 3: Solar ‘wings” in space on the ISS . The ISS needs power for life support, lighting, communication, experiments, propulsion and pretty much just about ...

The International Space Station will deorbit in 2030. In its place, NASA is planning for one or more commercial stations. But researchers are fretting over what will happen to the ISS’s ...

NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore completed their spacewalk at the International Space Station (ISS) at 1:09 p.m. ET on Thursday, after spending 5 hours and 26 minutes in the vacuum ...