Spot The World’s Most Expensive Toolkit As It Floats Free From The #ISS
It could cost thousands to replace a toolkit that was dropped from the #InternationalSpaceStation by two #astronauts on a #sapce walk. Due to the size and shape of the pack, it’s actually now visible from Earth if you have clear skies and a pair of binoculars at hand. The tool bag is now orbiting our planet just ahead of the ISS with a visual magnitude of around six, according to EarthSky https://jalopnik.com/spot-the-world-s-most-expensive-toolkit-as-it-floats-fr-1851020444
Two cosmonauts onboard the International Space Station recently experienced a spacewalk they may never forget. While examining the site of a leak, they encountered a “blob” of deadly ammonia coolant. Futurism has more, including what forced one cosmonaut to disconnect his tether that attached him to the station. https://flip.it/5Q_ot3 #Science#Space#SpaceExploration#ISS#InternationalSpaceStation#Cosmonauts
#ISS heute 20:02 und 21:37 Uhr über Deutschland. Zieht als heller Punkt von West nach Ost über den Himmel. Beim ersten Überflug dürfte der Himmel im Westen des Landes noch zu hell sein. Ansonsten aber gut sichtbar, falls das Wetter mitspielt.
If you were standing on Saturn, and looking towards Earth...
The Earth and the Moon captured from Saturn by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, over 900 million miles away.
Credit: NASACassini Imaging Teamn and Processed by Jason Major
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Astronauts have been living aboard the International Space Station for over 20 years, helping humanity live in space and communicating their science back to Earth. Unfortunately, their internet bandwidth is pretty slow compared to anything the astronauts would experience back on Earth. But that will change with a new high-speed laser communications system in 2023. There's a relay satellite already in orbit, and now NASA is sending a transmitter/receiver to the ISS, which will beam high-speed data through the laser relay. They should get 1.2 gigabits-per-second transmission speeds.