ISS the International Space Station, wherever you are
loading…Upcoming passes
Official NASA stream via YouTube. A black picture means the night side of the Earth or no connection (LOS); that is normal. The stream is only loaded when you press the button; from then on YouTube sees your IP address, as with any video you watch there.
Visible means: above the horizon and still in sunlight while it is already dark here. You then see a bright, fast-moving "star" that crosses from west to east in a few minutes. Orbit: CelesTrak elements, propagated here with SGP4; crew: Open Notify. In the 3D view you can follow the ISS as soon as it is above the horizon, or fly along with the ISS wherever it is; there you can also turn on a notification for when it is visible above your place.
Satellites around the Earth their orbits on the world map
loading…Each line is a ground track: the path on the Earth directly beneath the satellite. Solid is where it is going (one orbit, two for the selected satellite), dashed where it has just been. Because the Earth turns underneath, each orbit lands further west. The circle around the selected satellite is the area from which it is above the horizon right now. The dark area is night. Geostationary satellites (Meteosat, TDRS) hover above the equator and have no track.
Other bright satellites and Starlink trains
loading…The ~150 brightest objects in Earth orbit (the Chinese space station Tiangong, Hubble, large rocket stages) plus the launches of the last 30 days — that is where the Starlink "trains" come from, which you see as a string of beads in their first days. Only passes higher than 20° and visible for at least a minute.