ISS Tracker

The map at the top of this page shows it live. Its position is calculated every second from the station’s latest orbital elements, so the station moves on the map as it moves in orbit. The dashed line shows where it flies in the next 90 minutes, and the circle around it is the part of the Earth it is above the horizon for.

Set your location in the passes panel and the tracker lists every time the station crosses your sky in the next 10 days. The passes marked with an eye are the ones you can see without a telescope: the station is in sunlight while your sky is dark, usually in the hours after sunset or before sunrise. It looks like a bright, steady star crossing the sky in a few minutes, without blinking.

About 27,600 km/h, or 17,100 mph. It goes around the Earth in about 92 minutes, so the crew sees around 16 sunrises and 16 sunsets every day.

The row under the map shows the crew on board now, with their roles and agencies, and the spacecraft docked to the station. It updates on its own when a crew changes.

Yes. Install HAkiosk on an Android tablet, iPad or iPhone and give it this page’s address: it shows the tracker full screen and keeps it there. Add ?lat=…&lon=… with your coordinates to the address and the passes over you show from the start. You can also add the address to a Home Assistant dashboard with a Webpage card.

Yes. Add ?kiosk=1 to the address, or &kiosk=1 after your coordinates, and the page shows the dashboard alone, one screen tall: for a TV, a Raspberry Pi, a Fire tablet or any kiosk browser. The Full screen button at the top does the same while the screen is full. HAkiosk does this on its own.

Radio amateurs can talk to the ISS crew, use its crossband repeater and send packet and APRS through it. The ham radio mode adds the station’s voice, repeater and packet frequencies for your ITU region, the Doppler shift for your location and how good the current pass is for a contact.