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Int''l Space Station seen over Kuwait on Sunday |
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Sunday, 16 October 2011 00:08 |
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The International Space Station will be sighted travelling over the skies of Kuwait for a four-minute period on Sunday at 0600 Kuwait time.
The space station, which resembles a moving star or aeroplane, will appear 31 degrees to the west of the southwest and will rise 64 degrees to vanish 10 degrees to the northeast, astronomy researcher Fahad Al-Mashhany told KUNA. The vessel's total size is about that of a football pitch and it weighs 450 tonnes. It flies 400km away from the earth's surface, travelling a speed of 14, 000 km/h and completing a full orbital trip every 90 minutes, he added. The lifetime expected for the vessel, intended to be a laboratory, observatory and factory in space, is until 2020. It was built in a series of over 50 trips to space by a joint venture between the US, Russia, Canada, Australia, Brazil, Japan and eight European countries.
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