How High Is The International Space Station

The international space station travels hundreds of miles above the earth but traveling there takes as long as it does to fly from new york to la.

How high is the international space station. It circles the globe every 90 minutes at a speed of about 17 500 mph 28 000 km h. The map of earth below the tracker shows where the space station is flying directly above. The iss circles the earth in roughly 93 minutes completing 15 5 orbits per day.

The tracker top map shows where the space station is right now and its path 90 minutes ago 1 5 hr and 90 minutes ahead 1 5 hr. In one day the station. The international space station also orbits in this layer between 320 and 380 km 200 and 240 mi and needs to be constantly boosted because friction with the atmosphere still occurs.

It maintains an orbitwith an average altitude of 400 kilometres 250 mi by means of reboost manoeuvres using the engines of the zvezdaservice module or visiting spacecraft. The space station flies at an average altitude of 248 miles 400 kilometers above earth. Live space station tracking map.

International space station facts and figures. For most of the last decade as astronauts and cosmonauts orbited the earth aboard the international space station they were circling the globe at an altitude of approximately 220 statute miles or about 350 kilometers.