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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).
Ground track example from Heavens-Above.An observer in Sicily can see the International Space Station when it enters the circle at 9:26 p.m. The observer would see a bright object appear in the northwest, which would move across the sky to a point almost overhead, where it disappears from view, in the space of three minutes.
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).
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previous image is too outdated new image published by me shows current and future iss the previous image is so old that its source has also been removed by nasa: 16:52, 18 June 2010: 3,319 × 2,116 (1.78 MB) Transatracurium: Flip & crop. 02:57, 6 June 2010: 4,288 × 2,839 (2.31 MB) Craigboy
The Boeing Starliner spacecraft is now scheduled to undock from the International Space Station and return to Earth on June 22, NASA said on Friday, giving more time to finalize planning for the ...
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Now a museum piece. OPS-4: USSR 3 [115] 1979 Constructed, but Almaz program cancelled in favour of uncrewed recon satellites. Freedom: NASA 14–16 [116] 1993 Merged to form the basis of the International Space Station. Mir-2: USSR Roscosmos: 2 [117] Columbus MTFF: ESA: 3 Galaxy: Bigelow Aerospace: Robotic [118] 2007