An artistic impression of the International Space Station (ISS). With its first component launched in 1998, the ISS is now a massive artificial satellite orbiting around the Earth.
The ISS acts as a space environment research laboratory, housing astronauts in space. The International Space Station is a combined project of several space agencies.
It is jointly participated in by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA).
