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The International Space Station (ISS)

Current position of ISS International Space Station on the world map in its Earth orbit.

The construction of the International Space Station began in 1998. In the project participate space agencies from USA, Russia, Japan, Canada, Europe, Brazil and Italy. The station is expected to be completed by 2010 and to be on duty by 2016.

ISS is moving at low Earth orbit in an altitude of about 350 km and can be observed with a naked eye. Its height varies from 319.6 to 346.9 kilometers because of atmospheric resistance and correction in its orbit. Every day ISS loses average 100 meters of its altitude, but the altitude of the orbit is corrected periodically.

ISS makes one complete trip around the Earth for about 92 minutes, traveling with average speed of 27 744 km/h.

Every day the Station completes 15.7 orbits around the Earth.

ISS has been inhabited continuously from the 2th November 2000, when the Expedition 1 stepped on board.

Computer generated image of the current position of the ISS International Space Station, orbiting around the Earth. The image updates on page reload.

You can follow the orbit of the ISS and the current visibility of ISS from the Earth's surface in Google Earth (The circle around the International Space Station icon, which you will see in Google Earth, shows the visibility from the Earth's surface to the ISS and contrariwise).

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* (ISS) is an abbreviation of the International Space Station.