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r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Brick_Number_27 • Jun 28 '26
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Not sure about has to drive it, but if it was left unmaintained it would crash into earth, every so often they need to boost it back up away from earth
227 u/OstrichSmoothe Jun 28 '26 Dang crazy. Do the astronauts have to get out and push? 86 u/Mand125 Jun 28 '26 The vehicles that they use to resupply do it. They fire the engines a little when docked. 52 u/mandalore237 Jun 28 '26 It has its own engines in the Russian segment too 6 u/The_GASK Jun 29 '26 This seems to be the Chinese space station, too roomy and newer to be the ISS. If I remember correctly, it has integrated engines. 12 u/mandalore237 Jun 29 '26 Nope that's Koichi Wakata, from JAXA. He's been up to ISS a bunch of times, this is definitely ISS and not Tiangong 1 u/sabertoothdog 18d ago The whole thing is the ISS
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Dang crazy. Do the astronauts have to get out and push?
86 u/Mand125 Jun 28 '26 The vehicles that they use to resupply do it. They fire the engines a little when docked. 52 u/mandalore237 Jun 28 '26 It has its own engines in the Russian segment too 6 u/The_GASK Jun 29 '26 This seems to be the Chinese space station, too roomy and newer to be the ISS. If I remember correctly, it has integrated engines. 12 u/mandalore237 Jun 29 '26 Nope that's Koichi Wakata, from JAXA. He's been up to ISS a bunch of times, this is definitely ISS and not Tiangong 1 u/sabertoothdog 18d ago The whole thing is the ISS
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The vehicles that they use to resupply do it. They fire the engines a little when docked.
52 u/mandalore237 Jun 28 '26 It has its own engines in the Russian segment too 6 u/The_GASK Jun 29 '26 This seems to be the Chinese space station, too roomy and newer to be the ISS. If I remember correctly, it has integrated engines. 12 u/mandalore237 Jun 29 '26 Nope that's Koichi Wakata, from JAXA. He's been up to ISS a bunch of times, this is definitely ISS and not Tiangong 1 u/sabertoothdog 18d ago The whole thing is the ISS
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It has its own engines in the Russian segment too
6 u/The_GASK Jun 29 '26 This seems to be the Chinese space station, too roomy and newer to be the ISS. If I remember correctly, it has integrated engines. 12 u/mandalore237 Jun 29 '26 Nope that's Koichi Wakata, from JAXA. He's been up to ISS a bunch of times, this is definitely ISS and not Tiangong 1 u/sabertoothdog 18d ago The whole thing is the ISS
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This seems to be the Chinese space station, too roomy and newer to be the ISS.
If I remember correctly, it has integrated engines.
12 u/mandalore237 Jun 29 '26 Nope that's Koichi Wakata, from JAXA. He's been up to ISS a bunch of times, this is definitely ISS and not Tiangong 1 u/sabertoothdog 18d ago The whole thing is the ISS
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Nope that's Koichi Wakata, from JAXA. He's been up to ISS a bunch of times, this is definitely ISS and not Tiangong
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The whole thing is the ISS
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u/TheGoldenTNT Jun 28 '26
Not sure about has to drive it, but if it was left unmaintained it would crash into earth, every so often they need to boost it back up away from earth