#ISS

ISS Crew Shelters in Dragon as Roscosmos Attempts Structural Repair on Zvezda Leak

On June 5, NASA ordered five astronauts into a docked Crew Dragon at 9:03 a.m. EDT while Russian cosmonauts prepared to cut into the ISS's leaking PrK tunnel — a structural problem seven years in the making that no patch has permanently solved.

How the Thermosphere Affects LEO Satellites: Drag, Space Weather, and the Starlink Lesson

How does the thermosphere affect LEO satellites? From atmospheric drag to GNSS disruption — and the 2022 Starlink incident that made the stakes impossible to ignore.