Bigelow Aerospace’s inflatable BEAM module — a new lightweight activity module, part of Bigelow’s continued endeavors toward putting into use a wide range of portable expandable habitation spaces, including the living-and-working-space BA-330 (pictured above) — has been scheduled for a March NASA mission to the space station. The Bigelow Expandable Activity Module will be sent to the space … Read more
From the International Space Station’s 400 km perch, astronauts like New Jerseyite Scott Kelly have been taking impressive photos of the world over the past almost two decades of the ISS’s use. Kelly, the current Commander of the Year Long Mission aboard the ISS, has been tweeting his photos to his followers for the duration. … Read more
This is ISS’s HDEV (High Definition Earth Viewing) experiment — a live HD stream from several cameras mounted to the External Payload Facility of the European Space Agency’s Columbus module, and has been broadcasting since April 30, 2014. To protect the cameras, they are encased in pressurized, temperature-controlled housing. Viewing notes: A black screen is normal when the … Read more
This collection of photographs was taken by the cameras of the International Space Station from it’s orbit at 319 nautical kilometers (172 miles) from the Earth’s surface. Can you guess what some of these cities are, or even the countries they belong to? We’ll make it more interesting: This first set of cities are all from … Read more
The International Space Station orbits the Earth at 28,000 km/h, fast enough to make it from our planet to the moon and back in a day. The 1 million pound craft carries its six passengers around the circumference of the Earth every 90 minutes at that speed. And now, thanks to Open Notify‘s API and … Read more
Did you guess some of the cities of the Americas from “What The World’s Capital Cities Look Like From Space, Part 1“? Here are the answers: Ottawa, Ontario; Trenton, New Jersey; Phoenix, Arizona; Havana, Cuba; Mexico City; Panama City; Lima, Peru; Brasilia, Brazil; Santiago, Chile; Buenos Aires, Argentina. Now let’s move from the southernmost tip … Read more