{"id":884486,"date":"2026-10-16T15:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T15:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/884486\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T15:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T15:38:12","slug":"apod-2026-october-16-chasing-the-international-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/884486\/","title":{"rendered":"APOD: 2026 October 16 \u2013 Chasing the International Space Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p-md margin-0 media-detail-hero__description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tExplanation: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/news-release\/nasa-science-cargo-launch-on-35th-spacex-resupply-mission-to-station\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Blasting into the predawn sky<\/a> on Tuesday, October 13, a Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft are headed for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/missions\/station\/iss-research\/observing-our-planet-from-low-earth-orbit\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">low Earth orbit<\/a> in this stunning timelapse video captured from Indian Harbour Beach, Florida. Starting with a launch from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Falcon and Dragon are chasing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/international-space-station\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">International Space Station<\/a> on NASA&#8217;s 35th Commercial Resupply Services mission. On cue, the space station itself enters the frame from the top. Almost 8 seconds into the 30 second timelapse. the bright streak of the ISS appears heading &#8220;down&#8221; toward the horizon. The first and second stages of the Falcon 9 are separating as the spectacular exhaust plume jellyfish grows, already catching the light of the rising Sun. The visible sequence of first stage boost back, re-entry, and landing burns begins around 20 seconds into the video. With the second stage following the ISS toward the distant horizon, <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/image-article\/apod-2026-march-19-launch-plume-spacex-jellyfish\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the jellyfish plume<\/a> continues to drift in the predawn sky, even after the successful first stage landing at planet Earth&#8217;s Landing Zone 40.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow&#8217;s picture: pixels in space\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Explanation: Blasting into the predawn sky on Tuesday, October 13, a Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":884487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[337743,79],"class_list":["post-884486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-apod","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=884486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/884487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}