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NASA/Roscosmos/ESA/JAXA/CSA spacecraft

International Space Station

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Crewed and operating.

At Earth.

Measured

Agency
NASA/Roscosmos/ESA/JAXA/CSA
Arrived
1998-11-20
From the Earth today
6,724 km
Height above the Earth
about 346 km
End to end
109 m

How far, from the Earth

6,720 km. To cross it:

  • Light0.0224 seconds
  • Voyager 1's speed6 minutes 39 seconds
  • Driving at 100 km/h2.8 days

Voyager 1 at the speed it moved outward over the year to 2026-10-25 (JPL Horizons). Driving: nonstop, never refuelling.

Facts

  • JPL Horizons trajectory round Earth: worst miss 232 km on the dates it was checked against (median 64 km); between those dates as much as about 696 km. Dates after the data was fetched are Horizons' predictions, which it revises as a mission flies. JPL's file for it is built from TLEs and looks four weeks ahead, with low accuracy more than a few days past the date it was made. This date is about 4 days past the Horizons answer it comes from (2026-11-12), and a low orbit's forecast moves with drag and reboosts: allow about 707 km (6° round its orbit), and more if it has been reboosted.

Where this comes from

  • NASA
  • Spacecraft trajectories: JPL Horizons, NASA/JPL-Caltech; each mission's agency credited on its card.
  • 3D model: International Space Station model: NASA/JSC Integrated Graphics, Operations, and Analysis Laboratory (IGOAL), NASA 3D Resources

Every catalogue Ouranos draws is credited on the credits page.