International Space Station celebrates 10th Birthday

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Space agencies are marking 10 years since the first stage of the International Space Station was put into orbit. In 1998 it was hailed as a sign of hope for humanity and an orbiting scientific city in the sky. Pallab Ghosh examines how successful the ISS has been.

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The International Space Station (ISS) is a research facility currently being assembled in outer space, the on-orbit construction of which began in 1998. The space station is in a Low Earth Orbit and can be seen from Earth with the naked eye; it orbits at an altitude of approximately 350 km (190 mi) above the surface of the Earth,[3][4][5] and travels at an average speed of 27,700 kilometres (17,210 mi) per hour, completing 15.7 orbits per day.

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