The International Space Station (ISS) can get a laser cannon to destroy space debris. Ultimately, this could serve as the basis for the development of an effective strategy for protecting the earth's orbit from anthropogenic pollution, Discovery News reports. To detect space debris, scientists propose to use ...

The crew of the International Space Station was hit by a Russian food embargo in response to Western sanctions in 2014. This is stated in the report of the Energia Rocket and Space Corporation. The embargo applies to products to be delivered from the US to the ISS by Russian ships. In January 2015, a batch of American products for ...

Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka, using photographic equipment available on board the ISS, photographed the Progress M-30M cargo ship flying 170 km below the station on the night of April 27 and transferred the resulting images to the Mission Control Center (MCC), Interfax was told in space...

Attempts to contact the Progress-M27M cargo spacecraft, with which an emergency situation occurred, have not brought results for the second day, but experts believe that it is necessary to continue to “reach out” to Progress in order to gain experience working in such conditions. The Progress-M27M truck, after launching from Baikonur, entered an orbit much higher...

British singer and future space tourist Sarah Brightman is going to sing on board the International Space Station (ISS) to the accompaniment of an orchestra from Earth, reports TASS with reference to the press service of Roscosmos. On January 19, Brightman and her understudy Satoshi Takamatsu at the Cosmonaut Training Center ...

According to the American space agency (NASA), no one was injured or threatened at the International Space Station (ISS), from which an alarm was received, forcing the astronauts to evacuate the American section and move to the Russian section. According to NASA, all six members ...

The International Space Station personnel, who were in the American compartment, were urgently evacuated after an ammonia leak. A poisonous gas leak was discovered today, Wednesday, as reported by the space agencies of Russia and the United States. All personnel of the American section were successfully transferred to the Russian section ...