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Please keep these to stations that play a major part in the plot of a show or movie. This trope is pretty much ubiquitous in [[Speculative Fiction]], of all levels on the [[Mohs Scale of Sci Fi Hardness]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Very large space-stations are integral to the background of the ''[[Gundam]]'' anime universe(s). The designs are lifted almost verbatim from O'Neill's ''[[The High Frontier]]'', which was new when the first Gundam series was in development.
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** And for many years before the Watchtower, the JLA had an orbiting satellite space station, through the 70s and part of the 80s (until the "Detroit League" era and the Crisis finished it off).
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* [[I Don't Like the Sound of That Place|The Doom Satellite]] from ''[[Calvin and Hobbes: The Series]]''.
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* Most Starports in [[Traveller]] have an orbital component to deal with heavier traffic and a component planetside. Aside from that there are research stations, minor outposts and the like and occasionally (if the jump range is too far) a space station will be built in interstellar space to allow transit.
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=== International ===
* ISS (1998–present): Biggest one yet built. Core consists of components from the planned Russian station Mir-2 (Zarya FGB and Zvezda Service Module) and American station Freedom (Integrated Truss Structure). [[Europe|ESA]], [[Japan|JAXA]], and [[Canada|CSA]] have all contributed components.
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=== Privately Owned ===
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