Human Spaceflight
ISS (ZARYA)
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The International Space Station (ISS) is a space station in low Earth orbit (LEO). It is the product of the International Space Station program and is operated by five partner space agencies: NASA, Roscosmos (Russia), ESA (Europe), JAXA (Japan), and CSA (Canada). It is the first space station built, maintained and crewed through international cooperation and the largest human spacecraft ever constructed. It is an orbital research station, where scientific experiments in microgravity are conducted and the space environment is studied. Since 2 November 2000, it has hosted the longest continuous presence of humans in space. Alongside Tiangong, it is one of the only two currently operational space stations.
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Launch
- Launch date
- November 20, 1998 at 06:40 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Proton-K →
- Operator
- Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center
- Mission
- Zarya
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 422 km
- Periapsis
- 416 km
- Inclination
- 51.63°
- Orbital period
- 92.95 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)/Multinational
- Manufacturer
- Boeing Satellite Systems (prime)/Multinational
- Users
- Government
- Launch mass
- 450,000 kg
- Design lifetime
- 30 years
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1998-067A
- NORAD catalog №
- 25544
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
- International Space Station
- Radar cross-section
- 399.0524 m²
- Status
- Operational