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What will happen to the bob of a pendulum if it is taken into an orbiting space station?
The bob of a pendulum in an orbiting space station will appear to float weightlessly due to the effects of microgravity.
What does the gravitational pull of the earth keep around it?
The moon, satellites, international space station, and everything else orbiting the earth.
Country which launched first orbiting space station?
The first orbiting space station was Salyut 1, launched by the Soviet Union in 1971.
What space station is orbiting earth?
The International Space Station (ISS) is orbiting Earth. It is a collaborative project involving multiple countries and serves as a microgravity and research laboratory in space.
What is the name space station that is orbiting the earth now?
The space station currently orbiting Earth is called the International Space Station (ISS). It serves as a research facility for various countries and is inhabited by astronauts from around the world.
What is the largest artificial satillite orbiting earth?
It is the International Space Station.
What orbiting station was developed by the Soviet Union during the '80s?
The MIR.
What is a long-term orbiting platform from which other vehicles can be launched?
If you wanted to, you could call it the National Orbiting Vehicle-Launching Platform. But as soon as the newspapers got ahold of it, they would shorten the name down to something like "space station".
How long has the International Space Station been orbiting the earth?
The first part of the International Space Station (Zarya) has been in orbit since November 1998. The station has been progressively added to since then.
Why do astronauts on space station orbiting earth float?
Astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) experience weightlessness because both the station and the astronauts are in a state of continuous free fall towards Earth. While gravity still acts on them, the ISS travels forward at a high speed, creating a curved path that matches the curvature of Earth. This balance between gravitational pull and forward motion results in a sensation of floating, commonly referred to as microgravity. Thus, they are not truly "floating" but rather falling around the Earth.
What is microgravity and what is its affect on humans?
Well basically, anything that has mass exerts a gravitational pull ony other masses. Therefore, when in space in a space station/ship, you are not actually experiencing weightlessness, but the gravitational effects of the ship are small enough as to not be noticable. This is called microgravity. As to its effects on humans, basically we experience muscle atrophy, or the wasting away of our muscles. The reason for this is that humans have evlolved in a gravitational environment where our muscles have developed due to the resistance of gravity. Therefor when spending long periods in space, we lose this conditioning. A classic image from the MIR space station was of the Russian cosmonaut being lifted out of his reentry capsule because his muscles had wasted to the point that he couldn't stand in (resist) Earths gravity.
What is the ISS space vehicle?
International space station orbiting the earth now
