The International Space Station (ISS) travels at an average speed of about 17,500 miles per hour (28,000 kilometers per hour). This speed allows it to complete an orbit around Earth approximately every 90 minutes, resulting in about 16 sunrises and sunsets each day for astronauts aboard. In kilometers per second, this is roughly 7.67 km/s. The ISS orbits at an altitude of around 400 kilometers (248 miles) above Earth. This incredibly high speed means that if one could travel at the same pace on Earth, a trip from New York to Tokyo would take only about 15 minutes.
