Editing Space station

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A '''space station''' is a platform or facility built for use such as habitation, research or defense in a planetary orbit or deep space. The term can also be applied to mobile facilities.

== Overview ==
The first [[human]] space station in the modern era was the [[Wikipedia:Russia|Russian]] [[Wikipedia:Salyut 1|Salyut 1]], launched on April 19, 1971. Following the success of the Salyut-series in the 1980s, the Russians launched the [[wikipedia:Mir|Mir]] on 20 February 1986. The Mir was the first modular space station capable of supporting multiple unit modules, thus allowing greater flexibility in operation, as well as removing the need for a single immensely powerful launch vehicle.

In 1998, five space agencies came together and initiated the [[wikipedia:International Space Station program|International Space Station programme]], a global effort to construct a space station for research purposes in a microgravity and space environment as well as serving as a landing platform for the testing of spacecraft systems and equipment required for missions to [[Luna|the Moon]] and [[Mars]].

More space stations were constructed across [[Sol system|Sol]] with the advent of interplanetary colonization in the late 21st century, followed by [[Human colonies|other star systems]] in humanity's subsequent interstellar era. By the 26th century, space stations had come to fill a broad range of roles as starship construction and docking facilities, heavily-armed defensive outposts, [[UNSC fleet|fleet]] support, even as colony habitats, in addition to their original primary role as science facilities.

=== List of known human space stations ===

*'''[[Anvil Station]]''' - a training station for [[SPARTAN-IV]] supersoldiers in orbit over an unknown planet.
*'''[[Carinae Station]]'''
*'''[[Casimir Station]]''' - a space station presumably in orbit over [[Reach]].
*'''[[Chiron]]''' - a UNSC platform over [[Mars]], housing a prominent extreme-conditions training facility.
*'''[[Eridanus Secundus]]''' - a hollowed-out [[asteroid]] converted into an [[Insurrectionist]] habitat.
*'''[[Far-gone colony platforms]]''' - a series of human space habitats.
*'''[[Gamma Station]]''' - a space dock in orbit around Reach.
*'''[[Io Station]]''' - a listening post near [[Io]] in the Sol system.
*'''[[Ivanoff Station]]''' - a UNSC orbital research facility based in an asteroid field near [[Installation 03]].
*'''[[Lawrence Space Station]]''' - a human space station in the [[26 Draconis system]].
*'''[[Lisbon Station]]''' - a UNSC research facility established near [[Installation 05]].
*'''[[Lockhart medical station]]''' - a UNSC medical facility.
*'''[[Midpoint Anchorage]]''' - a space dock located in the Sol system.
*'''[[ONI orbital facility]]''' - an ONI station in orbit over [[Earth]].
*'''[[Orbital defense platform]]''' - a type of [[United Nations Space Command|UNSC]] planetary defense station.
**''[[Athens Station]]''
**''[[Cairo Station]]''
**''[[Malta Station]]''
**''[[Nassau Station]]''
**''[[Oaxaca Station]]''
*'''[[Refit station]]''' - a mobile UNSC ship repair dock.
**''[[Anchor 4]]'' - a refit station near [[Sedra]].
**''[[Anchor 9]]'' - one of 18 refit stations in Reach's orbit.
**''[[Anchor 10]]'' - a refit station near [[Dryad]].
**''[[Cradle]]'' - a refit station destroyed in the [[Battle of Sigma Octanus IV]].
**{{UNSCShip|Hopeful}} - a mobile state-of-the-art medical station constructed from two refit stations.
*'''[[Remote scanning outpost]]''' - UNSC space stations designed to monitor in- and outbound slipspace traffic.
**'''''[[Archimedes]]''''' - the [[Sigma Octanus system]]'s remote scanning outpost.
**'''''[[Fermion]]''''' - an RSO based in the [[Epsilon Eridani system]].
**'''''[[Democritus]]''''' - a remote sensing station in the [[Sol system]].
*'''[[Reyes-McLees Shipyards]]''' - a major UNSC ship construction facility over [[Mars]].
*'''[[Station Jefferson]]''' - an Insurrectionist facility in the [[Eridanus system|Eridanus]] asteroid belt.
*'''[[Station Wayward Rest]]''' - the terminal station of the [[Centennial Orbital Elevator]].
*'''[[Teller Station]]''' - an ONI [[xenoarchaeology]] research station located at [[Site 17]] in the [[Oort cloud]] of the [[Epsilon Eridani system]].
*'''[[Tiara]]''' - a [[space elevator]] anchor and terminal facility in orbit around [[Harvest]].
*'''[[The Rubble]]''' - an elaborate, independently-governed habitat in the [[23 Librae]] system constructed from a network of connected asteroids.
*'''''[[Tripoli]]''''' - a UNSC deep-space station.
*'''[[Unidentified ONI medical facility]]''' - an  [[Office of Naval Intelligence|ONI]] medical station in Reach's orbit.
*'''[[UNSC construction platform]]''' - modular starship construction and repair facilities utilized by the UNSC.

== Space stations in the Covenant ==
The [[Covenant]] was a chiefly space-based civilization; the hegemony's [[Covenant military|military]] was heavily distributed across vast [[Covenant fleet|space fleets]], and its capital city ''[[High Charity]]'' was a mobile station almost constantly on the move. This stands in contrast to humanity's practice of concentrating their cultural, political and military centers on planets.

=== List of known Covenant space stations ===
*'''''[[High Charity]]''''' - the Covenant's mobile capitol and holy city.
*'''''[[Unyielding Hierophant]]''''' - a Covenant mobile fleet command center.
*'''[[Station of Constant Sustenance]]''' - a resupply facility in the fringes of the Covenant's empire.
*'''[[Ap'ot|Ap'ot Port]]''' - a [[Kig-Yar]] spaceport in the [[Y'Deio system]].
*'''[[Ranarum Orbital Platform]]''' - a [[Sangheili]] space station and docking facility orbiting their homeworld [[Sanghelios]]. It houses the [[Aanrar Shipyard]].
*'''[[Oth Lodon station]]''' - a station operated by the [[New Colonial Alliance]] and Covenant remnants.

==Forerunner space stations==
The [[Forerunner]]s constructed their most notable space installations on a planetary scale, and many of them are more aptly described as [[astroengineering|megastructures]] than space stations. The [[Halo Array|Halo rings]], the [[Ark]]s, the [[shield world]]s and the [[Capital]] are examples of such installations. Nonetheless, there are some which fall within the more conventional definition of a space station.

*'''[[Deep-Space Anomaly 0198]]''' - a small station in orbit around [[Threshold]] in the [[Soell]] system.

==Gallery==
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File:H4-IvanoffStation-ScanScreen.jpg|''[[Ivanoff Station]]'', an asteroid-based research facility near [[Installation 03]].
File:H2A - ODP.jpg|''[[Cairo Station]]'', an [[orbital defense platform]].
File:Anchor 9.jpg|''[[Anchor 9]]'', a [[refit station]].
File:The Hopeful.png|''[[UNSC Hopeful]]'', a mobile hospital platform constructed from two repurposed refit stations. 
File:Fermion.jpg|The [[remote scanning outpost]] ''[[Fermion]]''.
File:TheArena.png|An unknown station where the [[Spartan-IV]]s train.
File:Anvil blueprint.jpg|Blueprints to ''Anvil Station'' in its full scope and configuration.
File:Cradle1.png|The ''[[UNSC Cradle]]'', a mobile refit station of alternative design. 
File:H2A Terminals - IoStation.jpg|''[[Io Station]]'', an outpost in the Sol System. 
File:H2A - High Charity.jpg|The Covenant mobile station ''[[High Charity]]''.
File:HE Covenant station.jpg|[[Oth Lodon station|A Covenant station]] near [[Oth Lodon]].
File:H2A Terminals - Unyielding 2.jpg|A holographic representation of the Covenant mobile space station ''[[Unyielding Hierophant]]''. 
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