Today, Russia launched the Soyuz MH-14 into low-earth orbit, destined for the International Space Station (ISS) for 10 days time. The rocket is carrying the Skybot F-850 robot, nicknamed Fedor – short for Final Experimental Demonstration Object Research – which will spend one week on the satellite. Fedor will ”perform several tasks under the control of astronaut Alexander Skvortsov and will be able to communicate with the crew,” according to the Russian space agency Roscosmos.
Eagle-eyed viewers will be watching NASA’s ISS feed on September 1, when the rocket is due to dock with the space station.
However, they are unlikely to get a sight quite as bizarre as what happened in July 2016.
Video footage appeared to show a small white anomaly making its way through space – heading to the Blue Planet.
Then the feed cuts.
The clip was uploaded to YouTube channel Streetcap1, where it quickly went viral, racking up four million views.
Many conspiracy theorists chipped in on the debate in the comment, claiming it could be a UFO and proof of alien life.
However, NASA put the rumours to bed, making their own admission over the video.
Spokesman Daniel Huot told CNET: “The video is from our High Definition Earth Viewing (HDEV) experiment aboard the ISS, which is mounted externally on the ISS.
“This experiment includes several commercial HD video cameras aimed at the Earth, which are enclosed in a pressurised and temperature-controlled housing.
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The conspiracy theorist speculated in 2018: “Some of you may be asking ‘what is this yellow tinge?’
“Well actually, this is just black space, because as you guys saw towards the end of the video, as the camera begins to pan back, this yellow tinge begins to fade away.
“You can also see some of the arms and equipment of the ISS come into focus on the right side of the screen.
“So what you find on many of these ISS cameras is when the lenses are zoomed at a certain point due to the Sun and the low-resolution cameras, sometimes they’ll be showing total darkness and it will have this yellowish tinge.
“But whatever this object is, it has taken the form of a white square floating by, and it’s in space.”
