Russia’s unmanned cargo ship

The Progress MS-16 cargo ship, which blasted off from the Russia-leased Baikonur launch facility in Kazakhstan, has delivered water, propellant and other supplies to the orbiting outpost.

A space station, also known as an orbital station or an orbital space station, is a spacecraft capable of supporting a human crew in orbit for an extended period of time, and is therefore a type of space habitat.
As of now, the International Space Station (ISS) is the only fully functioning space station and largest human-made body in low Earth orbit.
The ISS programme is a joint project between five participating space agencies: NASA (United States), Roscosmos (Russia), JAXA (Japan), ESA (Europe), and CSA (Canada) but its ownership and use has been established by intergovernmental treaties and agreements.
It serves as a microgravity and space environment research laboratory in which crew members conduct experiments in biology, human biology, physics, astronomy, meteorology, and other fields.

India is planning to launch its own space station by 2030 and the project will be an extension of the Gaganyaan mission.
The space station is going to be very small that will be used for carrying out microgravity experiments and not for space tourism

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