Orbital Sunset & Northrop Grumman Cygnus | International Space Station

Orbital Sunset & Northrop Grumman Cygnus | International Space Station

The Cygnus space freighter (left) from Northrop Grumman, with its prominent cymbal-shaped UltraFlex solar arrays, is pictured as the International Space Station flies into an orbital sunset 261 miles above the Pacific Ocean. At upper right, is a portion of the Rassvet mini-research module's docking port.

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the  International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada. The ISS has been the most politically complex space exploration program ever undertaken.

Learn more about the important research being operated on the station: 

https://www.nasa.gov/iss-science 

For more information about STEM on Station: https://www.nasa.gov/stemonstation

STEM is an acronym for the fields of science, technology, engineering and math. 

Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Centre (JSC)

Image Date: April 8, 2022

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