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The International Space Station (ISS) is a large space station that was assembled and is maintained in low Earth orbit by a collaboration of five space agencies and their contractors: NASA (United States), Roscosmos (Russia), ESA (Europe), JAXA (Japan), and CSA (Canada).
The International Space Station is in LEO about 400 to 420 kilometres (250 to 260 mi) above the Earth's surface. [14] The station’s orbit decays by about 2 km/month (1.2 mi/month) and consequently needs re-boosting a few times a year. The Iridium telecom satellites orbit at about 780 km (480 mi).
International Space Station mockup at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. The space station is located in orbit around the Earth at an altitude of approximately 410 km (250 mi), a type of orbit usually termed low Earth orbit (the actual height varies over time by several kilometers due to atmospheric drag and reboosts).
The International Space Station (ISS) whizzes around Earth at nearly 18,000. mph. NASA/Reuters The space station is whizzing around Earth at about five miles per second (18,000 mph), according to ...
Earth's atmosphere photographed from the International Space Station.The orange and green line of airglow is at roughly the altitude of the Kármán line. [1]The Kármán line (or von Kármán line / v ɒ n ˈ k ɑːr m ɑː n /) [2] is a conventional definition of the edge of space; it is widely but not universally accepted.
The region around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, as seen from the Russian space station Mir in 1997. The 10-kilometre (6.2 mi) long cooling pond of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is visible from space. In April 1997 it was photographed from the Mir space station, which was in orbit somewhere between 296 km (184 mi) and 421 km (262 mi).
The Destiny module, also known as the U.S. Lab, is the primary operating facility for U.S. research payloads aboard the International Space Station (ISS). [2] [3] It was berthed to the forward port of the Unity module and activated over a period of five days in February, 2001. [4]
This week, NASA revealed that the International Space Station’s Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS) is recycling 98 percent of all water astronauts bring aboard the station.