International Space Station (Seen from above)
109 m (357.6 ft)
End-to-end span
The orbiting laboratory, measured along its solar-array truss. End to end: 109 m (356 ft), about an American football field with end zones.
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How big is that?
109 m is 2.2 times an Olympic pool and 33% of the Eiffel Tower.
International Space Station is the 8th smallest of the 39 Cosmic Scale objects, and the 39th largest of the 109 objects across all three SizeItUp games.
Closest in size from the other games: Elizabeth Tower (Big Ben) (Classic), 96.3 m tall and American football field (NFL) (Classic), 109.728 m long.
Size comparison
To scale, smallest to largest: International Space Station in orange beside the Cosmic Scale objects nearest in size, in teal.
| Object | Size | vs International Space Station |
|---|---|---|
| Space Shuttle orbiter (Without the fuel tank)NASA's reusable spaceplane, measured nose to tail. | 37.2 m long | 34% of the size |
| Falcon 9 (SpaceX)SpaceX's reusable workhorse rocket. | 70 m tall | 64% of the size |
| International Space Station (Seen from above) | 109 m long | – |
| Saturn V (Moon rocket)The rocket that carried Apollo astronauts to the Moon. | 111 m tall | about the same |
| Starship (Full stack)SpaceX's giant rocket: the Ship on top of the Super Heavy booster. | 124 m tall | 1.1× bigger |
In other units
| Metres | 109 |
|---|---|
| Kilometres | 0.109 |
| Feet | 357.6 |
| Yards | 119.2 |
How it's measured
End-to-end span. NASA.
Sources
- nasa.gov: 356 feet (109 meters) end-to-end.
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Could you have guessed it by eye?
International Space Station is one of the objects in Cosmic Scale, a daily size comparison game: you stretch a shape to the size you think is right beside one you know.