How High Is The Space Station

Our amazing planet views from space.
How high is the space station. The dark overlay indicates where it is nighttime in the world. It circles the globe every 90 minutes at a speed of about 17 500 mph 28 000 km h. Expedition 18 flight engineer sandra magnus shares some of her favorite photos of earth taken from the international space station. Earth views recorded in hd.
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. Check out these video views of earth recorded in high definition. The space station flies at an average altitude of 248 miles 400 kilometers above earth.
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. View this video. These are his 10 favorite photos from space. Earth is not shown.
The iss is maintained in a nearly circular orbit with a minimum mean altitude of 330 km 205 mi and a maximum of 410 km 255 mi in the centre of the thermosphere at an inclinationof 51 6 degrees to earth s equator. 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.