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What does ISS stand for?
What does ISS mean? This page is about the various possible meanings of the acronym, abbreviation, shorthand or slang term: ISS.
Term | Definition | Rating |
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ISS | Integrated Surveillance System | |
ISS | Inhibit Symmetrical Swapping | |
ISS | ISS Group, LTD. | |
ISS | Idle Stop Solenoid | |
ISS | Idle Stop Start | |
ISS | Idle Stop System | |
ISs | Impala Ss | |
ISS | Input Shaft Speed | |
ISS | Instant Start System | |
ISS | Integrated Safety Systems | |
ISS | Integrated Service Systems | |
ISS | Intelligent Safety Shield | |
ISS | Intelligent Safety System | |
ISS | Intelligent Stop Start | |
ISS | Intermediate Steering Shaft | |
ISS | International Superstars Series | |
ISS | Cleaning service | |
ISS | I Said So | |
ISS | Imprinted Sportswear Show | |
ISS | Industry Strategy Symposium | |
ISS | International Sabre Symposium | |
ISS | International Switching Symposium | |
ISS | In School Suspension | |
ISS | Indiana Science Standards | |
ISS | Intelligent Security System | |
ISS | Ion Scattering Spectrometry | |
ISS | Indices Search Slip | |
ISS | Integrated Summary of Safety | |
ISS | Information Systems and Services | |
ISS | Intelligent Security Systems | |
ISS | Italian Spaghetti Sauce | |
ISS | Impotent Sea Snakes | |
ISS | Instant Space Station | |
ISS | Institute of Silly Strings | |
ISS | Internal Stupidity Society | |
ISS | Important Slam Shooter | |
ISS | Industry Standard Server | |
ISS | Inpatient Services Specialist | |
ISS | Institute for Security Studies | |
ISS | Institute for Standardization of Serbia | |
ISS | International Seating Symposium | |
ISS | International Security Studies | |
ISS | International Staff Songsters | |
ISS | International School Services | |
ISS | International Security Standards | |
ISS | International Skeletal Society | |
ISS | International Superyacht Society | |
ISS | International Society of Surgery | |
ISS | Internet Security Service | |
ISS | Internet Security Systems | |
ISS | Institutional Shareholder Services | |
ISS | Image Sensor Solutions | |
ISS | Image Server System | |
ISS | Image Symbol Set | |
ISS | Inactive Shadow Set | |
ISS | Income Support Supplement | |
ISS | Index Search System | |
ISS | Industry Standard Servers | |
ISS | Inhibit Symmetric Swapping | |
ISS | Inno Setup Script | |
ISS | Integrated Storage Solution | |
ISS | Integrated Switching System | |
ISS | Intel Select Solutions | |
ISS | Intel Solutions Summit | |
ISS | Intel Speed Step | |
ISS | Intelligent Storage System | |
ISS | Internet Security Specialist | |
ISS | Imposition of Sentence Suspended | |
ISS | Investopedia Stock Simulator | |
ISS | In Service Support | |
ISS | Inside Skin Surface | |
ISS | Integrated Sealing System | |
ISS | Instrument Sales and Service | |
ISS | Integrated Support Service | |
ISS | In-System Select | |
ISS | Inspection Selection System | |
ISS | Integrated Systems Support | |
ISS | Interactive Survivability Simulation | |
ISS | Information Systems Security | |
ISS | I Should Sleep | |
ISS | Inertial Sub-System | |
ISS | Inhibit/override Summary Snapshot | |
ISS | Installation Support Services | |
ISS | Instruction Summary Sheet | |
ISS | Integrated Support Stand | |
ISS | Integrated System Schematic | |
ISS | IRIS (Italian Research Interim Stage) Spinning Stage | |
ISS | International Space Station Governmental » NASA -- and more... | |
ISS | Internet Server Supplement | |
ISS | Initial Send Sequence | |
ISS | Inclination Sensor System | |
ISS | Integrated Sounding System | |
ISS | Infantile Seizure Society | |
ISS | Iranian Statistical Society | |
ISS | Iron & Steel Society | |
ISS | Imaging Science Subsystem | |
ISS | Input to State Stability | |
ISS | Injury Severity Score Medical » Physiology -- and more... | |
ISS | In-School Suspension | |
ISS | Independent Schools Section | |
ISS | International School of Samui | |
ISS | Iredell Statesville Schools | |
ISS | A Industrial Social Sciences | |
ISS | Inertial Surveying System | |
ISS | Integrated Social Sciences | |
ISS | International Schools Services | |
ISS | Imperial Star Ship | |
ISS | Information Security Standard | |
ISS | Internal Security Service | |
ISS | Internet Security System | |
ISS | Institute of security studies | |
ISS | Instructional Sports Skills | |
ISS | I'm So Sorry | |
ISS | Improving Soccer Sportsmanship | |
ISS | International Superstar Soccer | |
ISS | انجمن آمار ايران | |
ISS | Iron and Steel Society | |
ISS | International Social Service | |
ISS | Intelligent Software Solutions | |
ISS | International Student Services | |
ISS | International Students and Scholars | |
ISS | Idea Star Singer | |
ISS | Identical Screening Search | |
ISS | Imprinted Sportswear Shows | |
ISS | Incremental Spatial Search | |
ISS | Independent Service Set | |
ISS | Independent Studio Services | |
ISS | Indestructible Space Sperm | |
ISS | Industrial Security System | |
ISS | Information Support System | |
ISS | Information Systems Services | |
ISS | Inner Shell Spectroscopy | |
ISS | Inside Self Storage | |
ISS | Instructional Support Services | |
ISS | Integrated Sealing Systems | |
ISS | Integrated Seaming System | |
ISS | Integrated Sounding Systems | |
ISS | Integrated Systems Solutions | |
ISS | Integrative Studies in Social | |
ISS | Interactive Session Support | |
ISS | Interactive Surfaces and Spaces | |
ISS | International Space Station is | |
ISS | Intl Space Station | |
ISS | Irradiation Side Sampling | |
ISS | Institute of Social Studies | |
ISS | Instructional Support Staff | |
ISS | Integrative Studies in Social Sciences | |
ISS | International Students Service | |
ISS | Introduction to Social Sciences | |
ISS | Immigrant Social Services | |
ISS | Intelligence Systems Secretariat |
What does ISS mean?
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- The International Space Station (ISS) is the largest modular space station in low Earth orbit. The project involves five space agencies: those include the United States' NASA, Russia's Roscosmos, Japan's JAXA, Europe's ESA, and Canada's CSA. The ownership and use of the space station is established by intergovernmental treaties and agreements. The station serves as a microgravity and space environment research laboratory in which scientific research is conducted in astrobiology, astronomy, meteorology, physics, and other fields. The ISS is suited for testing the spacecraft systems and equipment required for possible future long-duration missions to the Moon and Mars.The ISS programme evolved from the Space Station Freedom, a 1984 American proposal to construct a permanently crewed Earth-orbiting station, and the contemporaneous Soviet/Russian Mir-2 proposal from 1976 with similar aims. The ISS is the ninth space station to be inhabited by crews, following the Soviet and later Russian Salyut, Almaz, and Mir stations and the American Skylab. It is the largest artificial object in the solar system and the largest satellite in low Earth orbit, regularly visible to the naked eye from Earth's surface. It maintains an orbit with an average altitude of 400 kilometres (250 mi) by means of reboost manoeuvres using the engines of the Zvezda Service Module or visiting spacecraft. The ISS circles the Earth in roughly 93 minutes, completing 15.5 orbits per day.The station is divided into two sections: the Russian Orbital Segment (ROS) is operated by Russia, while the United States Orbital Segment (USOS) is run by the United States as well as by the other states. The Russian segment includes six modules. The US segment includes ten modules, whose support services are distributed 76.6% for NASA, 12.8% for JAXA, 8.3% for ESA and 2.3% for CSA. Roscosmos had previously endorsed the continued operation of ROS through 2024, having proposed using elements of the segment to construct a new Russian space station called OPSEK. However, continued cooperation has been rendered uncertain by the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and subsequent international sanctions on Russia, who theoretically, may lower, redirect, or cut funding from their side of the space station due to the sanctions set on them.The first ISS component was launched in 1998, and the first long-term residents arrived on 2 November 2000 after being launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on 31 October 2000. The station has since been continuously occupied for 22 years and 91 days, the longest continuous human presence in low Earth orbit, having surpassed the previous record of 9 years and 357 days held by the Mir space station. The latest major pressurised module, Nauka, was fitted in 2021, a little over ten years after the previous major addition, Leonardo in 2011. Development and assembly of the station continues, with an experimental inflatable space habitat added in 2016, and several major new Russian elements scheduled for launch starting in 2021. In January 2022, the station's operation authorization was extended to 2030, with funding secured within the United States through that year. There have been calls to privatize ISS operations after that point to pursue future Moon and Mars missions, with former NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine stating: "given our current budget constraints, if we want to go to the moon and we want to go to Mars, we need to commercialize low Earth orbit and go on to the next step."The ISS consists of pressurised habitation modules, structural trusses, photovoltaic solar arrays, thermal radiators, docking ports, experiment bays and robotic arms. Major ISS modules have been launched by Russian Proton and Soyuz rockets and US Space Shuttles. The station is serviced by a variety of visiting spacecraft: the Russian Soyuz and Progress, the SpaceX Dragon 2, and the Northrop Grumman Space Systems Cygnus, and formerly the European Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), the Japanese H-II Transfer Vehicle, and SpaceX Dragon 1. The Dragon spacecraft allows the return of pressurised cargo to Earth, which is used, for example, to repatriate scientific experiments for further analysis. As of April 2022, 251 astronauts, cosmonauts, and space tourists from 20 different nations have visited the space station, many of them multiple times.
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