The Cupola
The window seat.
Earth from the station’s seven-window bay — the planet live, the terminator real, the next orbital sunrise on the clock. The station sees sixteen a day.
Altitude419 km
Speed27,585 km/h
People aboard the sky10
Next orbital sunriseWed, 21 Oct 2026 23:10:17 GMT
The window frame is drawn; the view is not: LIVE CAMERA is NASA’s official ISS downlink — the station’s real cameras, dark when it flies the night side — and COMPUTED VIEW is the real position and terminator, drawn (wheretheiss.at, computed sunlight) · the station by the numbers →