Amna Al Ketbi from Dubai shares news on Sultan Al Neyadi, the Emirati astronaut who will make a call from the International Space Station at 2:30 pm. A meeting will be organized at the Dubai Opera where attendees can participate and ask questions to gain insight into the details of his mission, the experiments he will conduct, and the desired benefits from them. Etisalat will also be organizing periodic meetings throughout the UAE. Sultan Al Neyadi will share his experience from conducting 200 scientific experiments, including 19 studies of his own, which will help prepare for human exploration outside low Earth orbit and benefit various life sciences on Earth.
The International Space Station is made up of pressurized housing units, structural supports, photovoltaic solar panels, in addition to thermal radiators, ports for docking and docking of spaceships, and mechanical arms. Crew members work with technologies such as 3D printers, conduct science experiments in various fields, and test materials for use in space.
The station is controlled by two main ground stations, in Houston, USA and Moscow, Russia, and orbits the Earth at a height of 370 to 430 kilometers from the surface. The pioneers on board watch the sunset and sunrise 16 times in 24 hours and depend on their timing inside the station on Greenwich Mean Time.
The International Space Station is a collaborative effort of 16 countries including Russia, the United States, Canada, Japan, and the United Kingdom.
Amna Al Ketbi (Dubai)
Today, Sultan Al Neyadi, the Emirati astronaut, is making a direct call from the International Space Station at 2:30 pm. An exceptional meeting will be organized with the attendees to participate in the event at the Dubai Opera. The meeting will provide a unique opportunity to communicate and interact with the astronaut by asking questions to learn more about the details of his mission aboard the International Space Station, the experiments that he will conduct and the desired benefits from them, as these meetings are a window from which space exploration lovers look at the details of the historical mission that the Emirati astronaut is engaged in. Etisalat will also be organized periodically, all over the UAE. Al-Neyadi shares with the audience the experiences of his scientific mission aboard the International Space Station, by conducting specialized research on tissue chips related to the functions of the heart and brain, followed by tests of “science above genes”, which deals with the process of changing gene activity, which will be conducted in the Columbus laboratory. , up to the third test of “plant biology”, which helps in understanding the growth of plants in space, while this will be done in the “Fiji Garden” laboratory, which is the unit for building plant life at the International Station. From 200 scientific experiments during their mission, in addition to 19 scientific studies of his own, which Sultan will carry out in cooperation with global space agencies. Scientific research aims to prepare for human exploration outside low Earth orbit, and then benefit from its results in various life sciences on Earth. combustion of specific materials in microgravity, tissue chip research on heart, brain and cartilage function, and a survey that will collect microbial samples from outside the space station.
Compact housing units
The International Space Station consists of pressurized housing units, structural supports, and photovoltaic solar panels, in addition to thermal radiators, ports for docking and docking of spaceships, and mechanical arms. Various visiting spacecraft such as the Russian Soyuz and Progress, the US Northrop Grumman Space Systems Cygnus, formerly the European Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), the Japanese H2 Transporter, and the US SpaceX Dragon, the Dragon spacecraft has the ability to return payload compressed to Earth, which is used for example to recreate scientific experiments on Earth for further analysis.
techniques
Crew members on the International Space Station work with technologies such as 3D printers to understand how this and other technology can be used in space, and laboratories on the International Space Station conduct science experiments that take advantage of the microgravity environment. These are in medicine, astronomy, meteorology, life sciences, physical sciences, and space effects. Living on humans, animals and plants, they also test various materials for use in space.
station control
The station is controlled by two main ground stations, the first in Houston in the United States of America, and the second in Moscow, the capital of Russia. The station orbits the Earth at a height ranging between 370 and 430 kilometers from the surface, and weighs half a million kilograms, and is about 73 meters long and wide. 108 meters, meaning that it is the size of a football field, and can be seen with the naked eye, and its speed is 28 thousand kilometers per hour, and it completes one cycle around the Earth approximately every 90 minutes, and it revolves about 16 times around the Earth per day, meaning that the pioneers on board watch the sunset and sunrise 16 times in 24 hours.
The pioneers depend on their timing inside the station on Greenwich Mean Time, so when the sun sets in the British capital, London, the station windows close automatically to give the pioneers a feeling of the night to sleep, then they wake up early in the morning to conduct their scientific experiments for about 10 hours, except for Saturday when they work only 5 hours. .
16 countries participated in building the International Space Station: Russia, the United States, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands and Norway, in addition to Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
In conclusion, the direct call from Emirati astronaut Sultan Al Neyadi at the International Space Station provided a unique opportunity for space exploration enthusiasts to learn more about his mission and the scientific research being conducted aboard. Through the various experiments being carried out on the ISS, scientists aim to prepare for human exploration outside low Earth orbit and benefit from the results in various life sciences on Earth. With 16 countries participating in building the ISS, this global effort towards space exploration continues to inspire us all.