International Space Station
crewed space station · 420 km up, 16 orbits a day
in orbit around Earth
The largest thing humans have built in space: a football pitch of solar wings and modules, lived in continuously since November 2000. It circles Earth every 93 minutes at 28,000 km/h.
- orbit 51.6° to the equator · 16 sunrises a day
Numbers that change with time are from 8 November 2026.
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