How High Up Is The International Space Station
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How high up is the international space station. The space station is 357 feet end to end one yard shy of the full length of an american football field including the end zones. 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. Space shuttles and five on russian proton soyuz rockets.
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. Nasa s web site will check the telemetry from the space station and gather its exact latitude and longitude as it orbits about 200 miles over the earth traveling 17 500 miles an hour making one full orbit every hour and a half. Live space station tracking map.
In one day the station. It circles the globe every 90 minutes at a speed of about 17 500 mph 28 000 km h. 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.
The space station flies at an average altitude of 248 miles 400 kilometers above earth. 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. The map of earth below the tracker shows where the space station is flying directly above.