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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
205 km
Periapsis
195 km
Inclination
51.61°
Orbital period
88.49 min

Identity

COSPAR (Int'l)
1998-067VR
NORAD catalog №
57313
Object type
Payload
Owner / operator
To Be Determined
Status
Decayed
Decay / reentry
January 30, 2024

End of mission

Last active / ended
January 30, 2024
Time in service
25.2 years
Fate
Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
Final status
Decayed