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space station

spacecraft designed to remain in space for an extended period with a crew
class space Q25956
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Summary

space station ranks in the top 3% of space entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,511 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: crewed spacecraft[2], artificial satellite[3]
  • Commons category: Space stations[4]
  • Said to be the same as: space laboratory[5]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Space stations[6]
  • Described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 11[7]
  • Topic has template: Template:Infobox space station[8], Template:Space stations[9]
  • Equivalent class: http://dbpedia.org/ontology/SpaceStation[10]
  • Has list: list of space stations[11]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[12]

Why It Matters

space station has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13] It is known by 73 alternative names across languages and contexts.[14]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [14] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 11w ago · Kirilloparma · 2026-07-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14470 → ['Objects/Space_Station', 'Locations/Space_Station']
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ P14470: Locations/Space_Station, Adding missing [[P:P14470|P14470]] and [[P:P9675|P9675]] qualifier based on [[P:P5247|P5247]]"
  2. 15w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → space-stations
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: space-stations, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289960538|space stations (#289960538)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's "
  3. 16w ago · Yirba · 2026-06-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 3EqtUo
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/37444|batch #37444]]: Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026) (P14541) 2"
  4. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0204214-kosmicke-stanice
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0204214-kosmicke-stanice, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259494|batch #259494]]"
  5. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Nomenclature for museum cataloging → —
    Encyclopedia of china (third edition) id → —
    Bncf thesaurus id → —
    Gnd id → —
    + 94 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|6 */ Yso id: 12612, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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