International Space Station
The largest thing people have built in space: about 109 metres from end to end and some 420 tonnes, put together in orbit over more than a decade. It is 414 to 424 km up, and magnitude −3.7 at its brightest.
Satellites
What is in orbit around the Earth today
35,200 tracked objects are circling the Earth right now. 17,414 of them are working satellites; the rest are dead satellites, spent rocket stages and debris. This page counts them again every day from the public catalogue, and follows the ones worth knowing live.
- 35,200Tracked objects in orbit
- 17,414Working satellites
- 11,192Starlink satellites in orbit
- 253Launches to orbit in 20263,698 satellites so far
Where the space station is right now
The gold ring is the orbit of the International Space Station, and inside the white circle it is above the horizon. Drag the globe to turn it, pinch or use the buttons to come closer. The 2D map shows its path over the ground for the next lap. Every satellite with a page here has a globe and a map like these.
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The ones everyone asks about
Tiangong space station
China’s space station. It is 380 to 385 km up, and magnitude −3.0 at its brightest.
Hubble Space Telescope
The telescope that changed what everyone thinks space looks like. It is 470 km up, and magnitude +0.6 at its brightest.
Satellites by family
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Space stations
The two crewed stations in orbit, and what is docked to them today.
154Brightest satellites
The satellites and spent rocket stages you can see without a telescope.
11,192Starlink
How many are up, where they fly, and what went up this month.
73Weather satellites
The satellites behind the forecast, in low orbit and over the equator.
546Geostationary satellites
The ring of satellites that hang over one spot, in order around the Earth.
95Amateur radio satellites
The satellites radio amateurs talk through.
80Iridium
The satellite phone network that once made the famous flares.
654OneWeb
The other internet constellation, in a much higher orbit.
206New in orbit
Everything launched in the last thirty days.
Look one up
950 satellites have a page here, each with its orbit, its history and a live 3D globe of where it is.
What is up there
About 49 of every 100 things in orbit are working satellites. Of everything ever put in the catalogue, 71,307 objects, 35,803 have already come back down.
Only objects large enough to be tracked from the ground are counted: in low orbit, about 10 cm across and up.
Who the working satellites belong to
By the country or organisation each satellite is registered to. Starlink counts for the United States, OneWeb for the United Kingdom.
How fast it is growing
The satellites working today, by the year each was launched.
- 1092015
- 872016
- 1462017
- 2022018
- 1452019
- 3612020
- 9932021
- 1,7362022
- 2,2732023
- 2,5452024
- 4,3882025
- 3,6702026
Launched in the last thirty days
| Launched | Satellites | From | Tracked objects |
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| Nov 11, 2026 | TANLUOZHE | Jiuquan, China | 1 |
| Nov 8, 2026 | HULIANWANG DIGUI × 9 | Wenchang, China | 10 |
| Nov 7, 2026 | COSMOS 2621 [GLONASS-K1] | Plesetsk, Russia | 2 |
| Nov 6, 2026 | Not yet named in the catalogue | Jiuquan, China | 4 |
| Nov 5, 2026 | YAOGAN-51 OBJECT A, YAOGAN-51 OBJECT B, YAOGAN-51 OBJECT C | Xichang, China | 4 |
| Nov 3, 2026 | QIANFAN 17 OBJECT A, QIANFAN 17 OBJECT B, QIANFAN 17 OBJECT C, QIANFAN 17 OBJECT D, 14 more | Jiuquan, China | 19 |
| Nov 2, 2026 | QPS-SAR-20 (WADATSUMI-II) | Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand | 3 |
| Oct 31, 2026 | STARLINK × 27 | Vandenberg, California, United States | 27 |
| Oct 30, 2026 | NVS-03 (IRNSS-1L) | Sriharikota, India | 2 |
| Oct 27, 2026 | STARLINK × 27 | Vandenberg, California, United States | 27 |
With the app
Knowing where it is over the Earth is one thing. The app shows you where it is in your sky.
This page follows the satellite around the planet. The app works out when it passes over you, and leads you to it.
- Every pass over your exact location, for this satellite and 10,000+ more.
- An alert before it rises, so you are outside in time.
- An arrow in the camera view that leads you to the exact spot in the sky.
- Starlink trains, Tiangong, Hubble and the brightest satellites of tonight.
More about watching satellites
Counts from CelesTrak’s satellite catalogue, which lists launches up to November 11, 2026. Page updated November 14, 2026.