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Space Objects
International Space Station
Continuously inhabited · since 2000
The largest structure ever assembled in space. Seventeen pressurised modules, 109 metres end to end, orbiting Earth every 93 minutes — 16 sunrises a day for whoever is on board.
Key specifications
Mass
~420,000 kg
Altitude
~408 km
Orbital speed
~7.66 km/s
Inhabited since
2 Nov 2000
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