You, technically
Distance the station has covered since you opened this page, at 7.66 km every second.
0 km and counting408 km up · 27,580 km/h · four continuous shots
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The home planet. Population: everyone.
Reviews: mixed.
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Act I · The Curtains
01 · The arrangement
Every 92 minutes,
all the way around.
The station falls around the planet sixteen times a day and has the decency to film it. Everything you are scrubbing through is real.
16sunrises, daily
92.9minutes per lap
7.66kilometres per second
The night grid.
Nobody organised this. It organised itself.
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Act II · The Grid
02 · Meanwhile, live
Numbers that moved
while you read this.
The odometer
Orbits completed since the first module launched in November 1998. It has not stopped once.
— laps of EarthToday’s screenings
Sunrises the crew has already had today. The next one is at most 92 minutes away.
— of 16 scheduledDawn, again.
The sixteenth today. The crew has never once skipped the view.
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Act III · The Dawn
It does all of this whether or not anyone is watching.
The storm.
Solar wind meeting a magnetic field, at planetary scale. No tickets required.
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Act IV · The Storm
03 · Boarding
Book a window seat.
The station has exactly one cupola and seven seats. Demand is, historically, strong.