The International Space Station (ISS) is counting down its days, with retirement just a few years away hanging over the orbital lab. For more than 20 years, the space station served as a home for astronauts in low Earth orbit, but it will soon meet its demise as it plummets through the atmosphere, leaving behind … Read more
Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft has been docked with the International Space Station (ISS) for nearly a month, with NASA and its commercial partner repeatedly delaying the crew’s departure aboard the capsule. Despite indefinitely postponing Starliner’s return flight, NASA and Boeing insist that the spacecraft is fully operational, can return to Earth at any time, and that … Read more
Thousands of satellites are currently in low Earth orbit, and some will eventually become defunct and fall back into our planet’s atmosphere. When they reenter the atmosphere, satellites leave behind a trail of chemicals that eat away at the ozone layer. A new study warns that the growing number of internet satellites have contributed to … Read more