The Space Station
Get the latest news images videos and more from humanity s home in orbit the international space station.
The space station. The map of earth below the tracker shows where the space station is flying directly above. Nasa united states roscosmos russia jaxa japan esa europe and csa canada. Live space station tracking map.
The tracker top map shows where the space station is right now and its path 90 minutes ago 1 5 hr and 90 minutes ahead 1 5 hr. The dark overlay indicates where it is nighttime in the world. Commercializing the international space station could allow for testing components for moon and mars missions and the orbiting platform could also be a pit stop on the way to the moon according.
Nasa astronaut kate rubins and russian cosmonauts sergey ryzhikov and sergey kud sverchkov launched for a six month stay on the space station from the baikonur cosmodrome in southern kazakhstan. Stations must have docking ports to allow other spacecraft to dock to transfer crew and supplies. A space station also known as an orbital station or an orbital space station is a spacecraft capable of supporting a human crew in orbit for an extended period of time.
Local time a soyuz rocket blasted off from baikonur cosmodrome russia s sprawling and remote space launch facility in kazakhstan to the international space station. Space station iss viewing and sighting information schedule for your location tonight. It lacks major propulsion or landing systems.