Cosmoglobus — the living Earth in 3D
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About
Satellites and the ISS in real time
Thousands of satellites are circling the Earth at this very moment, and here you can see every one of them on its real orbit. The International Space Station is among them: it goes round the planet in about an hour and a half, sixteen times a day, some 400 kilometres up.
Click a satellite and the camera follows it — over oceans and cities, into the night side and back into sunlight. You can also see the big constellations: Starlink trains, GPS and GLONASS navigation satellites, weather satellites standing still over the equator.
The orbits come from the public element sets published by CelesTrak and are recalculated as you watch, so the positions are live, not a recording.
Questions people ask
- How do I find the ISS?
- The station is labelled on the globe. Click it and the view follows it round the Earth.
- Can I see when it passes over me?
- Yes: the evening panel for your place lists the visible passes of the ISS and the brighter satellites.