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 ISS of STS-132 | |
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| Station statistics | |
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| COSPAR ID | {{#property:P247}} |
| SATCAT no. | 25544 |
| Call sign | Alpha, Station |
| Crew | Fully crewed: 3-6 Currently aboard:7 (Expedition68) |
| Launch | 20 November 1998 |
| Launch pad | |
| Mass | ≈ 419,725 kg (925,335 lb) |
| Length | 72.8 m (239 ft) |
| Width | 108.5 m (356 ft) |
| Height | ≈ 20 m (66 ft) nadir–zenith, arrays forward–aft (27 November 2009)[dated info] |
| Pressurised volume | Lua error in Module:Convert at line 1850: attempt to index local 'en_value' (a nil value). (28 May 2016) |
| Atmospheric pressure | 101.3 kPa (29.9 inHg; 1.0 atm) |
| Perigee | 408 km (253.5 mi) AMSL |
| Apogee | 410 km (254.8 mi) AMSL |
| Orbital inclination | 51.64° |
| Orbital speed | 7.66 km/s (27,600 km/h; 17,100 mph) |
| Orbital period | 92.68 minutes |
| Orbits per day | 15.54 |
| Orbit epoch | 14 May 2019 13:09:29 UTC |
| Days in orbit | 25 years, 4 months, 26 days (15 April 2024) |
| Days occupied | 23 years, 5 months, 13 days (15 April 2024) |
| No. of orbits | 116,178 as of May 2019[update] |
| Orbital decay | 2 km/month |
| Statistics as of 9 March 2011 (unless noted otherwise) References: | |
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The International Space Station (ISS) is a space station, a very large satellite that people can live in for several months at a time. It was put together in Low Earth orbit up until 2011, but other bits have been added since then. The last part, a Bigelow module was added in 2016. The station is a joint project among several areas of the world: the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada. Other nations such as Brazil, Italy, and China also work with the ISS through cooperation with other countries.
Building the ISS began in 1998, when Russian and American space modules were joined together.
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