July 16, 2024 - The solar array wingspan (356 feet, 109 meters) is longer than the world’s largest passenger aircraft, the Airbus A380 (262 feet, 80 meters). The International Space Station has been continuously occupied for two decades, and the astronauts ...

4 hours ago - The International Space Station (ISS) is a large space station that was assembled and is maintained in low Earth orbit by a collaboration of five space agencies and their contractors: NASA (United States), Roscosmos (Russia), ESA (Europe), JAXA (Japan), and CSA (Canada).

1 day ago - Crew members live and work aboard the International Space Station orbiting Earth 16 times a day. The orbital outpost is larger than a six-bedroom house with six sleeping quarters, two bathrooms, a gym, and a 360-degree view bay window.

December 15, 2025 - The ISS has an internal pressurized volume of 32,333 cubic feet and weighs 930,000 pounds (32,333 cubic feet is the equivalent of 7.9 semi-trailers). ... The ISS missions, called expeditions, usually last about six months.

1 week ago - Boeing officially turned over the U.S. on-orbit segment of the ISS to NASA in 2010 and continues to provide key engineering support services and continual capability enhancements, as well as processing for laboratory experiment racks. Due to its modular systems and the limited degradation of the space environment, technical assessments have shown the station could safely operate beyond 2030 if NASA and its international partners choose to do so.

Once completed, the dimensions of the International Space Station (ISS) will be approximately 108.5 meters by 72.8 meters. This is slightly larger then a full sized soccer field. The completed ISS will weigh around 450 tons. A small passenger car weighs approximately 1 ton.

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December 3, 2025 - The International Space Station (ISS) is the biggest human-made thing in space and the third-brightest object in the sky. It’s so big you can see it in the night sky without a telescope or binoculars. It’s 109 metres long and 75 metres wide – ...

Versatile permanently inhabited research institute in Low Earth OrbitThe International Space Station is a versatile research institute and a large observation platform in outer space for scientific research and applications. It also serves as a test centre to introduce new technologies.

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November 3, 2025 - From those renderings alone, it ... if you measured the full length of the ISS from end to end, it comes in at a little under 360 feet. That's the same size as a professional U.S....

The International Space Station (ISS) is a working laboratory that orbits 386 kilometers (240 miles) above the Earth, and since 2000 it has been a home for a rotating, international crew of three astronauts.

May 14, 2025 - The space station orbits Earth at an altitude of approximately 250 miles (402 kilometers), with its orbital path taking it over 90 percent of the Earth's population. Thanks to the size of its solar panels, it can be seen with the naked eye at ...

It is the largest human-made structure in space, with a size comparable to a football field, measuring over 300 feet wide and 200 feet long, including its solar arrays [1][2]. The ISS consists of 16 pressurized modules and various supporting ...

January 13, 2025 - The International Space Station (ISS) orbits high above our heads, yet the pull of Earth's gravity never hauls the complex out of orbit and sends it plummeting through our atmosphere, where it would burn up.

May 12, 2010 - The ISS is so large that it is visible to the naked eye from the ground.

March 23, 2023 - ... ‍ The ISS is 356 feet long from end to end, about the length of a football field, and has a mass of 460 tons, or nearly a million pounds. The internal pressurized square footage is equal to that of a Boeing 747.

The International Space Station is a spacecraft, an observatory, a laboratory and, perhaps most importantly, a home, hosting up to 10 people at any one time, all floating 240 miles above the Earth’s surface.