Star & Planet FinderLive ISS tracker
The International Space Station, live: the place it is over this second, its height and its speed, on a 3D globe you can turn and on a 2D map. Worked out from the latest tracking data, and moving with your clock.
Finding the space station…
Finding the space station…
On the globe, the gold ring is the station’s orbit and the line drops to the point on the ground under it. Inside the white circle the station is above the horizon: if you are in it and your sky is dark, look up. Drag the globe to turn it, pinch or use the buttons to come closer; the target button brings you back to the station. The 2D map shows its path over the ground for the next lap: gold where it is in sunlight, dashed where it is in Earth’s shadow.
Orbit measured November 13, 2026, from CelesTrak. Page updated November 14, 2026.
The live map at the top of this page shows the place the International Space Station is over this second, with its height and its speed. It goes around the Earth once every 92.9 minutes, so ten minutes from now it will be over another continent.
About 414 to 424 km above the ground, which is 260 miles. It sinks a little every day in the thin air up there, and its engines lift it back a few times a year.
About 7.66 km a second: 27,600 km/h, or 17,100 mph. At that speed it crosses the sky of any one place in six minutes at most.
15.5 times. One lap takes 92.9 minutes, and on each lap the crew sees one sunrise and one sunset.
Its orbit is tilted 51.6° to the equator, so the point under it swings between 51.6° north and 51.6° south, and in time it passes over every place between the two. Further toward the poles it never comes overhead, but it can still be seen low in the sky.
Yes, without a telescope: it is one of the brightest things in the night sky, brighter than any star. It shows only when your sky is dark and the station is still in sunlight, in the hours after dusk and before dawn. The flyover page of this site gives the times for your location.
With the app
A time and a direction get you outside. In the dark, with the station already moving, the app does the rest.