Space Station First: All Docking Ports Fully Occupied, 8 Spacecraft on Orbit - NASA
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For the first time in International Space Station history, all eight docking ports aboard the orbital outpost are occupied following the reinstallation of Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL cargo spacecraft to the Earth-facing port of the station’s Unity module. The eight spacecraft attached to the complex are: two SpaceX Dragons, Cygnus XL, JAXA’s (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) HTV-X1, two Roscosmos Soyuz crew spacecraft, and two Progress cargo ships.

For the first time in International Space Station history, all eight docking ports aboard the orbital outpost are occupied

  • Skullgrid@lemmy.world
    3·
    3 months ago

    I usually don’t pay that much close attention to space news, other than acknowledging things are happening.

    Is this huge news? With the chinese space station, ISS, and this much docking going on, does it mean that we’re getting very active as a species in space and actually progressing? Or is it just basic stuff going on up there, and a few thing happened coincidentally at the same time?

  • fubarx@lemmy.world
    2·
    3 months ago

    Cygnus will remain attached to the orbiting laboratory until no earlier than March 2026, when it is scheduled to safely depart and dispose of up to 11,000 pounds of trash and unneeded cargo when it harmlessly burns up in Earth’s atmosphere.

    Literally: