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Originally Posted by Kätzchen
5) The International Space Station orbits the earth in 90 minutes.
I’d hang a big question mark on that particular assertion because most all of us know that being a passenger on an airplane can spiral upwards of over 8 hrs in flight mode before stopping to drop off passengers or to refuel the airplane. Unless this particular fact about the ISS discloses its longitude and latitude coordinates and other factual info explaining how ISS orbits the earth in 90 minutes is logically explained, then I rest my case in Spock-like fashion. 
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The International Space Station (ISS) orbits the earth every 90 minutes, or approximately 16 times a day. It travels at approximately 17,500 mph. It's average altitude is 260 miles above Earth's surface, in low Earth orbit. This velocity balances the Earth's gravitational pull with centrifugal force, which keeps the ISS from falling back to Earth or flying off into space.
"These values are approximate due to factors like atmospheric drag and periodic reboosts to maintain altitude."
- paraphrased from DeepSeek