{"id":206806,"date":"2025-10-12T02:22:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T02:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/206806\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T02:22:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T02:22:10","slug":"japanese-astronaut-eyes-typhoon-from-orbit-on-the-international-space-station-oct-6-10-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/206806\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese astronaut eyes typhoon from orbit | On the International Space Station Oct. 6 – 10, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Science and maintenance work continued this week aboard the International Space Station<\/a>, but updates regarding those activities have been all but halted by the U.S. government shutdown. Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui’s social media posts were the exception…<\/p>\n

Orbital observation<\/p>\n

Expedition 73 flight engineer Kimiya Yui of JAXA<\/a> (the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) saw not one but two typhoons this week from aboard the International Space Station. (Typhoons are the same weather phenomenon<\/a> as hurricanes: both are tropical cyclones. This type of powerful storm is called a hurricane in the Atlantic and central and eastern North Pacific regions, and a typhoon in the Northwest Pacific.)<\/p>\n

“The eye of Typhoon 22 has become somewhat unclear, but it still appears to be maintaining its strong intensity as before,” wrote Yui on social media<\/a> on Thursday (Oct. 9). “Typhoon 23 is a bit distant, but it is swirling with thick rain clouds on its southern side.”<\/p>\n

“Stay safe while keeping up with the latest typhoon information!” he said.<\/p>\n

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JAXA astronaut Kimiya Yui, an Expedition 73 flight engineer, captured this photo of Typhoon 23 from aboard the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday, Oct. 9, 2025. (Image credit: JAXA\/Kimiya Yui)Astronaut activity<\/p>\n

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The International Space Station’s Canadarm2 robotic arm extends out in a test ahead of capturing a visiting spacecraft. (Image credit: JAXA\/Kimiya Yui)<\/p>\n

Yui worked with his Expedition 73 crewmates and ground controllers to check out PROX, a device that will be used when Japan’s next-generation cargo vehicle, the HTV-X, approaches the International Space Station for berthing.<\/p>\n

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“Preparations to welcome HTV-X to the ISS are steadily progressing,” wrote Yui in a social media post<\/a> on Oct. 8, 2025. “Here’s the news: just like with Kounotori-kun<\/a>, I’ve been assigned to operate the arm and grasp it this time as well. The responsibility is significant, but I’ll cooperate with everyone to reliably carry out the mission!”<\/p>\n

By the numbers<\/p>\n

As of Friday (Oct. 10), there are 7 people aboard the International Space Station<\/a>: Expedition 73 commander Sergey Ryzhikov of Roscosmos<\/a>; fellow cosmonauts Alexey Zubritsky and Oleg Platonov; Jonny Kim, Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke of NASA; and Kimiya Yui of JAXA, all flight engineers.<\/p>\n

There are two docked crew spacecraft: SpaceX<\/a>‘s Dragon “Endeavour” attached to the zenith port of the Harmony module and Roscosmos’ Soyuz MS-27 attached to the Earth-facing port of the Prichal node.<\/p>\n

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There are four docked cargo spacecraft: Roscosmos’ Progress MS-31 (92P) docked to the space-facing port of the Poisk module and Progress M-32 (93P) docked to the aft port of the Zvezda service module, SpaceX’s CRS-33 Dragon<\/a> spacecraft docked to the forward port of Harmony Node 2 and Northrop Grumman’s NG-23 Cygnus XL, the “SS William C. ‘Willie’ McCool,” berthed to the Unity node.<\/p>\n

As of Friday, the space station has been continuously crewed for 24 years, 11 months and 8 days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Science and maintenance work continued this week aboard the International Space Station, but updates regarding those activities have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[64,63,128,285],"class_list":{"0":"post-206806","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-space"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}