will the space station move around the earth or is it stationary?

Answer 1

For goodness sakes, watch the NASA channel. they have the orbital track on tv. 1 rev. ea. 90 min.

Answer 2

The space station is in orbit around the Earth, moving at approximatelyy 25,000 MPH. This is not a geostationary orbit, like weather satellites, so it does move relative to a ground observer.

All objects in orbit move. The only difference is the speed of the movement relative to an observer on the ground. If an object moves in orbit at the same speed of the Earth's rotation, it will appear in the same position over the Earth. This will make it seem stationary to a ground observer, but it really is moving.

Answer 3

The Space Station is orbiting the Earth. One complete orbit around the Earth takes about 90 minutes, so it is moving right along... I have heard estimates of its speed at 25,000 miles per hour, but that is a bit faster than I can calculate with my limited tools here in North Carolina. In my mind, I think the speed is something less than that because I recall that the Earth is 25,000 miles in circumference and that would make one orbit in almost 60 minutes. So-o-o, gray matter tells me that the speed is something more like about 17,000 miles per hour. That would make one orbit every hour and a half = 90 minutes...about right.

Answer 4

The space station orbits at nearly the same altitude as the space shuttle, about 200 miles, and takes 90 minutes to go around the earth.

Communications satellites are much higher, around 22,000 miles and only above the equator, so their orbital period of 24 hours matches the revolution of the earth underneath them and they only *appear* to be stationary.

Any satellite that actually was stationary would immediately fall straight down and create quite a fireball as it burned up (hopefully completely) in the atmosphere.

When a spacecraft wants to land it has to gradually move to a lower orbit, where it will speed up. In order to get to a lower orbit, though, it first has to *slow down* by firing forward rockets!

Answer 5

Nothing in the space is stationary. If things in the space are stationary , they would freeze and be stagnant . The universe woud be dead .so nothing in this space is and can ever be sationary. any space statioin that is stationary means it is moving with reference to some point on the earth at the speed at which that point is moving . rotating in space.

Answer 6

anything in the space cannot be stationary remember this.
now about space station,
like satellites space station has also to revolve around the earth to remain at fixed distance from the earth
regarding its angular velocity:it will have that much angular velocity so as to cause balancing of two dominant forces at that place namely centrifugal and gravitational
like moon which remains at the fixed distance from the earth
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Answer 7

the space station revolves around the earth

Answer 8

The ISS travels at an conventional velocity of 27,724 kilometres (17,227 mi) consistent with hour. The stream of Earth while in comparison with that velocity is neglible in terms of ways briskly ISS seems to bypass around the sky.

Answer 9

Unless the space station is put in a geostationary orbit, it will move around the earth.

Answer 10

yah yes sir the space station will orbit the earth in a strian axis if it don't orbit it will come smashing into the earth beacuase of the gravity

Answer 11

It is orbiting around the Earth at 17,000 mile an hr.