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The International Space Station is visible to us only at dawn or dusk, since it reflects the light of the sun, just as the moon does. It looks like an airplane or a very bright star moving across ...
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).
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.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 29 January 2025. Inhabited space station in low Earth orbit (1998–present) "ISS" redirects here. For other uses, see ISS (disambiguation). International Space Station (ISS) Oblique underside view in November 2021 International Space Station programme emblem with flags of the original signatory states ...
Visible pass of the International Space Station and Space Shuttle Atlantis over Tampa, Florida, on mission STS-132, May 18, 2010 (five-minute exposure). An orbital pass (or simply pass) is the period in which a spacecraft is above the local horizon, and thus available for line-of-sight communication with a given ground station, receiver, or relay satellite, or for visual sighting.
The International Space Station circles the Earth multiple times a day and it has photos to prove it. See what images of Tennessee collected over the years.
The comet was seen from the International Space Station over the weekend [Don Pettit/NASA] A bright comet could be visible in skies across the globe over the coming days for the first time in ...
This list of space telescopes (astronomical space observatories) is grouped by major frequency ranges: gamma ray, x-ray, ultraviolet, visible, infrared, microwave, and radio. Telescopes that work in multiple frequency bands are included in all of the appropriate sections.