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Is the Space Station in Geosynchronous orbit, Geostationary orbit, or other?

What type of orbit? What is it called?

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  • 2 decades ago
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    The space station is located in orbit around the Earth at an altitude of approximately 360 km (220 miles), a type of orbit usually termed low Earth orbit (The actual height varies over time by several kilometres due to atmospheric drag and reboosts). It orbits Earth in a period of about 92 minutes; by June 2005 it had completed more than 37,500 orbits since launch of the Zarya module on November 20, 1998.

    You can track it here --> http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/tracking/inde...

  • 2 decades ago

    The space station is located in orbit around the Earth at an altitude of approximately 360 km (220 miles), a type of orbit usually termed low Earth orbit (The actual height varies over time by several kilometres due to atmospheric drag and reboosts). It orbits Earth in a period of about 92 minutes

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    Geostatic Orbit

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    The ISS is in LEO and orbits at the edge of our atmosphere. It s altitude various as it s orbit decays over time and must be re-boosted to a higher altitude.orbit.

    Orbital period: 92.69 minutes

    Number of orbits: 92579

    Orbital inclination: 51.65 degrees

    Average speed: 7.66 kilometers per sec

    Low Earth Orbit (LEO) - Geocentric orbits ranging in altitude from 160 kilometers (100 statute miles) to 2,000 kilometers (1,200 mi) above mean sea level. At 160 km, one revolution takes approximately 90 minutes, and the circular orbital speed is 8,000 meters per second (26,000 ft/s).

    Geosynchronous orbit (GEO) - Orbits with an altitude of approximately 35,786 km (22,236 mi). Such a satellite would trace a figure 8 in the sky.

    Geostationary orbit (GSO): A geosynchronous orbit with an inclination of zero. To an observer on the ground this satellite would appear as a fixed point in the sky.

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  • 2 decades ago

    The Space Station is in a LEO orbit (low earth orbit) and its around 300 miles above the surface of the earth. So technically the Space Station isn't in space at all, but at the very edges of Earth's atmosphere.

  • Erika
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    5 years ago

    The altitude for geostationary orbits around earth is 22,3 hundred miles or 35,900 km. A satellite tv for pc's orbital era relies upon in basic terms in this altitude, no longer its mass, so something at that altitude (together with communications satellites) circles the earth in 24 hours. with the intention to 'hover' over one spot on earth, a satellite tv for pc should be promptly above the equator and orbit interior a similar direction via fact the earth rotates on its axis, from west to east.

  • 2 decades ago

    neither its in low earth orbit

  • Anonymous
    2 decades ago

    none of the above, it is serviced by the shuttle, et al so it is 300 miles or less

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