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International Space Station Orbit Tracker
There’s a growing movement of people who believe that our space agencies are underfunded (see: Penny4NASA) because humanity ...
As I gazed up at the night sky, I could actually track satellites with my naked ... with light pollution from large cities. The International Space Station (ISS) on the other hand is a large ...
In November, Pettit captured the trail SpaceX's giant Starship megarocket made in Earth's atmosphere during its sixth-ever ...
Under normal circumstances, long-exposure photographs such as this should show the stars as streaks across the sky, since the ISS is moving at about 17,500 miles per hour (28,000 km per hour). But ...
But therein lies Pettit's genius. He's brought with him to space a homemade star tracker, a device that rotates a camera to compensate for the ISS's movement. It's a variation on a tool used by ...
The International Space Station "continues to orbit the Earth as planned, and the crew aboard is safe," NASA said.
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