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In this page you can track in real time all the satellites orbiting the Earth, with both 2D and 3D interactive representations, predict their passes, view their trajectory among stars on an interactive sky chart, predict satellite flares and transits (across the Sun and the Moon), find out the best location to see these events on a detailed Google map. You can also follow satellite re-entries and other special events, join the observer community, post messages and share your comments and observations. Currently in our database we have more than 9000 observation reports!. You won't find any other tracker that provides all these functions!

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ISS Position and HD Camera FOV (Sunrise in 26 min 13 s )
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Wed, 08/11/2017 06:31:16 Latitude [deg]
-13.34 Altitude [km]
409.4 DEC J2000 [d:m:s]
-15:56:17 Sun El.[deg]
8 (Day)
(UTC)
Tue, 07/11/2017 22:31:16 Longitude [deg]
5.81 Azimuth [deg]
262 RA J2000 [h:m:s]
23:57:54 Loaded SAT :
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0s (RealTime Position) 2458065.43838
JD Elevation [deg]
-57.6 Magnitude
below horizon Observers
(registered) 11983
    
Observer: Bauan, Lat 13.7917°, Lon 121.008°


LIVE SKY CHART


The map on the left represents sky and satellite trajectory as visible from your location. The map background is white for day passes and black for night passes.

The green line represents the part of the trajectory where the satellite is sunlit (visible), whilst the grey line represents the part where the satellite is in Earth shadow (not visible).

You can see where the satellite will be in your sky at a different time simply by changing the program time with the following keys:

Seconds: [s] / [S]
Minutes: [m] / [M]
Hours: [h] / [H]
Days: [d] / [D]
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ISS 3D POINTER NEWS: ISS 3D TRACKER/POINTER FOR MOBILE PHONES AVAILABLE

Do you want to observe the International Space Station crossing your sky?
Install our 3D tracker for Android devices and you have just to point your phone to the sky and follow the line to find the ISS. You can also track the Station 24 hours a day with a 3D view of the Earth, constellations and more than 15.000 stars. A simple count down will inform you when you can actually see the ISS with the naked eye. Visit this web page for more details or for downloading the App.


 How to spot the International Space Station (ISS)


Observing the International Space Station (ISS) crossing your sky is very simple and it does not even require any instrument. The ISS is easily visible to the naked eye as the brightest satellite orbiting the Earth. If you have never observed the Space Station, follow these simple steps, and you will be able to obtain the information you need in just 5 clicks.

Step 1 (2 clicks) - Setting your coordinates

First of all, you have to tell the program in which part of the Planet you are now. Your current coordinates seem to be:

Latitude: 13.7917 ° N
Longitude: 121.008 ° E

Please check whether these coordinates are correct. You should see a little house on the map at your location. Please note that to obtain accurate predictions your position should be accurate at least within a few kilometres, thus, enlarge the map to check that the little house appears close to your actual location.
Step 2 (1 click) - Predict the visible passes

After your coordinates have been set, you can check when the ISS will cross your sky. To do this, simply click on the Predict Passes button in the program panel (or click here). You will see a table reporting when the ISS rises on your horizon (rise time), reaches the maximum elevation (culmination time), and sets again under your horizon (set time), which ends the pass. For each pass the table reports also the Sun elevation at the satellite's rise time.

Step 3 (1 click) - Choose your best pass

To easily see the ISS pass, the sky should be already a little dark, this means that the sun has to be at least -5 / -6 degrees of elevation (under the horizon). You can consider to be at night when the Sun is at least about 9 degrees under the horizon.

After you have identified your best pass click on its time in the culmination time column; the system will show you the satellite position at this time on the map. Around the satellite you will see also the visibility circle, which represents the geographical area where the satellite can be observed at that time. Indeed, the little house will appear inside the visibility circle.

Step 4 (1 click) - See the sky map of the pass


Now you know where the ISS is at the selected time, but it's still not obvious where to look in order to see it in the sky, for this reason the program can help you displaying the satellite path among the stars on a sky chart. You can open this sky chart simply by clicking on the Draw Sky Chart button in the control panel (or click here). You will find the satellite among the stars along with its path, which can assume two different colours: grey or green. The grey part represents the part of the orbit when the satellite is not sunlit, thus not visible, whilst the green part represents the part of the orbit when the satellite is sunlit, therefore visible, and this is where you can finally spot the ISS. If you want to know the ISS position at a different time, you can change the program time simply by using the [S] [M] [H] keys, with (decrease) or without (increase) the [SHIFT] key.

 




News from Space and Spaceflights


23/10/2017 - SpaceX’s drone ship “Of Course I Still Love You” is undergoing repairs at Port Canaveral following the return of Falcon 9 booster B1031.2 after launching the SES-11 satellite. While the touchdown was nominal, a post-landing incident resulted in a short fire at the aft of the ship, which also damaged the robot that was to be used to secure the booster. The fire was quickly extinguished. (source: nasaspaceflight.com - more...)

20/10/2017 - Two spacewalkers completed the third in a trio of spacewalks on the International Space Station (ISS) to complete vital maintenance on the Space Station Remote Manipulator System (SSRMS), specifically its new Latching End Effectors (LEE). After EVA-44 replaced the LEE, EVA-45 and -46 helped to lube the new hardware. Numerous other tasks were completed in tandem. (source: nasaspaceflight.com - more...)

19/10/2017 - Iridium Communications – in the midst of launching their next generation communications constellation – has formally signed an agreement with SpaceX to utilize flight-proven Falcon 9 boosters on their upcoming Iridium NEXT-4 and -5 missions. Iridium NEXT-4, scheduled to launch NET 22 December 2017 from SLC-4E, will be the first flight-proven Falcon 9 mission from Vandenberg. The change in boosters now negates the possibility of a Return To Launch Site landing of the Falcon 9 for the mission. (source: nasaspaceflight.com - more...)

18/10/2017 - The RS-25 test team at Stennis Space Center hot-fired an untested flight engine on the A-1 Test Stand Thursday to help complete certification of design changes to fly on the Space Launch System (SLS). The test is another step towards the flagship test firing of all four engines on the B-2 Test Stand. (source: nasaspaceflight.com - more...)

17/10/2017 - United Launch Alliance (ULA) and Bigelow Aerospace have updated their future plans via an agreement to launch a B330 module on a Vulcan rocket to an eventual home in Low Lunar Orbit. Set with a target date of 2022, the “Lunar Depot” could become a precursor to a Deep Space Gateway that NASA is interested in assembling later in the decade. (source: nasaspaceflight.com - more...)

16/10/2017 - Roscosmos, the federal space agency of the Russian Federation, launched the Progress MS-07 craft on a resupply mission to the International Space Station on Saturday and docked on a Monday docking. A previous option for Progress to debut a new super fast rendezvous with the ISS – docking to the Station just 3.5 hrs after liftoff – was lost after an earlier scrub. (source: nasaspaceflight.com - more...)

16/10/2017 - In what has already been a busy year for SpaceX, the commercial launch provider is adding one more mission to its jammed-packed end-of-year schedule. A mysterious mission codenamed Zuma will launch No Earlier Than 10 November 2017 from LC-39A at the Kennedy Space Center. Meanwhile, CRS-13 is slipping at least one week per the Station’s schedule, and the Iridium NEXT-4 mission from Vandenberg has received permission to debut RTLS landing of the Falcon 9 booster back at SLC-4W. (source: nasaspaceflight.com - more...)

15/10/2017 - United Launch Alliance’s clandestine Atlas V launch in support of the US National Reconnaissance Office finally departed SLC-41 on Sunday, after previously failing to dodge bad weather and then suffering a telemetry transmitter issue. Liftoff of NROL-52 from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station occurred at 07:28 Eastern. (source: nasaspaceflight.com - more...)

12/10/2017 - The European Space Agency’s Sentinel 5 Precursor satellite launched Friday aboard what could be the penultimate flight of Russia’s Rokot carrier rocket. Liftoff, from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Northern Russia, was on schedule at 12:27 Moscow Time (09:27 UTC). (source: nasaspaceflight.com - more...)

11/10/2017 - SpaceX launched its third re-flown Falcon 9 rocket Wednesday, carrying the EchoStar-105/SES-11 communications satellite into geosynchronous transfer orbit for SES and EchoStar. Liftoff, from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center took place at the opening of a two-hour window at 18:53 Eastern Time (22:53 UTC), with the booster landing successfully. (source: nasaspaceflight.com - more...)

02/10/2017 - Following the cheers and gasps of Elon Musk’s latest BFR update in Australia, SpaceX is preparing to return to the bread and butter of its Falcon 9 manifest, opening with a Static Fire test at Kennedy Space Center’s 39A. The test – completed part way into the six hour test window – is an important milestone ahead of the launch of the SES-11 satellite, currently scheduled to take place on October 7. (source: nasaspaceflight.com - more...)

29/09/2017 - Speaking at the 2017 International Astronautical Congress in Adelaide, Australia, Elon Musk has laid out a much anticipated update to SpaceX’s Mars colonization plan – including a slightly scaled back version of the BFR vehicle introduced last year. Included in this update, excitingly, was the announcement of the company s aim to establish a human base on the moon and use the BFR for Earth-based transport – taking people anywhere on the planet in less than an hour. (source: nasaspaceflight.com - more...)

29/09/2017 - Arianespace conducted the fifth Ariane 5 launch of the year with the lofting of the Intelsat 37e & BSAT-4a satellites from Europe s Spaceport in French Guiana on Friday. The attempt came after the rocket aborted on the pad due to an electrical issue with a booster post-main engine ignition. The abort stopped the boosters from igniting and allowed for safing to take place. (source: nasaspaceflight.com - more...)

28/09/2017 - International Launch Services (ILS) is upping the pace of its Proton-M launches with another mission following on closely from its Amazonas 5 success. The Russian workhorse – along with its Breeze-M upper stage partner – successfully conducted the launch of the AsiaSat-9 satellite from 200/39 site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Launch occurred at 18:52 UTC. (source: nasaspaceflight.com - more...)

28/09/2017 - After two launch mishaps that casted a shadow on the launch plans for 2017, China conducted a secretive launch from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, Sichuan province on Friday. An unidentified payload – later revealed to be Yaogan-30 01 – was launched by the Long March-2C (Y29) at 04:20 UTC from the LC3 Launch Complex. (source: nasaspaceflight.com - more...)

27/09/2017 - Engineers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, have attached the Parker Solar Probe s solar shadow-shield for final, integrated vehicle testing ahead of launch. The probe, which will be the first to touch the Sun is being readied for an anticipated 31 July 2018 launch aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL – which will start a 7 year mission to study the Sun. (source: nasaspaceflight.com - more...)

25/09/2017 - SpaceX is deep into pre-launch preparations for two upcoming missions that are set to lift off within a couple of days of each other. Both target launch dates have moved to the right by a matter of days, with the SES-11 mission from KSC’s 39A now tracking an October 7 departure, while on the West Coast the Iridium NEXT-3 mission now has a launch placeholder of October 9. (source: nasaspaceflight.com - more...)

23/09/2017 - United Launch Alliance (ULA) launched an Atlas V rocket on Saturday evening, carrying out the classified NROL-42 mission for the United States National Reconnaissance Office. Atlas – delayed two days via the requirement to changeout a battery on the booster – lifted off from California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base at 22:49 Pacific Time (05:49 UTC on Sunday). (source: nasaspaceflight.com - more...)

22/09/2017 - Following a series of issues over the last year with the Core Stage for the first flight of the Space Launch System rocket, the launch dates for both the EM-1 and EM-2 flights are beginning to align, with EM-1 now targeting No Earlier Than 15 December 2019 and EM-2 following on 1 June 2022. Additionally, the EM-3 flight has gained its first notional mission outline, detailing a flight to Near-Rectilinear Halo Orbit to deploy the Hab module for the new Deep Space Gateway. (source: nasaspaceflight.com - more...)

21/09/2017 - A Soyuz 2-1B rocket has conducted a launch in support of Russia’s GLONASS satellite navigation system in the early hours of Friday local time, carrying the Uragan-M No.52S spacecraft on a path to its destination orbit. Liftoff from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia was on schedule at 03:02 Moscow Time (00:02 UTC). (source: nasaspaceflight.com - more...)

29/08/2017 - NASA’s Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) mission is back on track for a 2018 launch after the discovery of leaks in key instrumentation during testing forced NASA to abandon its original 2016 launch date. The spacecraft is now in final testing at its Lockheed Martin facility in Denver, ahead of a unique launch from ULA’s West Coast site. (source: nasaspaceflight.com - more...)

28/08/2017 - The third transportation vehicle for NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services 2 contracts for resupply efforts of the International Space Station has passed a major ground test milestone at Edwards Air Force Base, California. Completing a 60 mph (96.5 k/h) tow test earlier this month, Sierra Nevada Corporation’s Dream Chaser mini-spaceplane is now aiming for a series of Captive Carry flight tests suspended underneath a 234-UT lifting commercial helicopter. (source: nasaspaceflight.com - more...)

25/08/2017 - Orbital ATK’s Minotaur rocket made its first launch from Cape Canaveral Friday, delivering the experimental space surveillance ORS-5 satellite to orbit. The Minotaur IV vehicle lifted off deep into a four-hour window with a T-0 of 02:04 Eastern (06:04 UTC) from Launch Complex-46 (LC-46). (source: nasaspaceflight.com - more...)

24/08/2017 - SpaceX launched its fortieth Falcon 9 Thursday, carrying the Formosat-5 spacecraft for the Taiwan’s National Space Organisation and the Republic of China’s National Space Organisation. The launch, which included a successful landing of the first stage aboard the Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship, occurred at the start of a 44-minute window that opened at 11:50 local time (18:50 UTC) from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. (source: nasaspaceflight.com - more...)

23/08/2017 - NASA’s Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP) still has a number of concerns over crew safety numbers for the Commercial Crew Program (CCP), notably the guideline Loss of Crew (LOC) metric, based on the threat of MicroMeteoroid and Orbital Debris (MMOD) damage and crew recovery from the ocean after an abort. The plan acknowledged both SpaceX and Boeing are actively working to improve their LOC ratings. (source: nasaspaceflight.com - more...)

21/08/2017 - The Orion European Service Module (ESM) Propulsion Qualification Module (PQM) is in the opening phases of testing – including hot firings – at the White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico. Bolted to a test stand, the PQM is being taken through a series of test campaigns by a team of personnel from prime contractor Airbus Defence and Space, the European Space Agency (ESA), and NASA. (source: nasaspaceflight.com - more...)

19/08/2017 - Gearing up for their second Vandenberg flight in as many months, SpaceX has static fired the Falcon 9 that will lift an extremely light-weight Taiwanese satellite to orbit next week. The static fire, a key step in every Falcon 9 launch campaign, paves the way for the launch of Formosat-5 on Thursday, 24 August at 11:50 PDT from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Air Force Base, CA, ahead of a first stage landing on the ASDS “Just Read The Instructions”. (source: nasaspaceflight.com - more...)

17/08/2017 - A Russian EVA was conducted outside of the International Space Station (ISS) with two Russian cosmonauts deploying several nanosatellites, collecting research samples and performing structural maintenance. Expedition 52 Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and Flight Engineer Sergey Ryazanskiy exited the station’s Pirs airlock at 14:36 UTC and ended it after seven hours and 34 minutes. (source: nasaspaceflight.com - more...)

17/08/2017 - United Launch Alliance (ULA) has launched a new satellite for NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS) on Friday, with an Atlas V carrying the TDRS-M satellite into orbit. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 41 (SLC-41) at Cape Canaveral was late in a 40-minute window, with liftoff occurring at 08:29 local time (12:29 UTC). (source: nasaspaceflight.com - more...)

11/08/2017 - Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne has signed an agreement to launch a SITAEL satellite developed in collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Italian Space Agency (ASI). The all-electric propulsion microsat demonstrator called HETsat will be air-launched on a rocket carried under the wing of Virgin Orbit’s Cosmic Girl carrier plane. (source: nasaspaceflight.com - more...)

11/08/2017 - With just one year to go until the scheduled completion of all uncrewed and crewed test flights for SpaceX and Boeing s commercial crew transportation services, the NASA Advisory Council recently held a routine review of the technical, hardware, software, and training progress the two companies are making toward the goal of returning the capability to launch people into space from the United States. (source: nasaspaceflight.com - more...)

11/08/2017 - Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries will launch an H-IIA rocket early next week, carrying the third spacecraft for the country’s Quasi-Zenith Satellite System of GPS augmentation satellites. The H-IIA was scheduled to lift off from the Tanegashima Space Centre with QZS-3 at 13:40 local time (04:40 UTC) on Saturday, before an issue was found late in the countdown. (source: nasaspaceflight.com - more...)

10/08/2017 - SpaceX has conducted a Static Fire test on the Falcon 9 set to launch the CRS-12 Dragon to the International Space Station (ISS). A successful test on Thursday paves the way for a launch on Monday, which will include another landing attempt on the LZ-1 landing pad that is already being prepared for the dual booster landing during the maiden Falcon Heavy mission. (source: nasaspaceflight.com - more...)

09/08/2017 - A little more than two weeks after the last test, the RS-25 test team is ready to acceptance test the next completed engine controller unit (ECU) that will eventually fly on NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) launch vehicle. Another flight-duration hot-fire of Development Engine 0528 (E0528) is planned Wednesday afternoon local time in the A-1 test stand at the Stennis Space Center (SSC) in Mississippi. (source: nasaspaceflight.com - more...)

07/08/2017 - The Vostochny Cosmodrome – a key part of Russia’s future space launch ambitions – has undergone a maintenance period ahead of what will be its second launch. The new launch site is currently dedicated to Soyuz rockets, but will eventually be the future site for the Angara and super heavy launch vehicles. (source: nasaspaceflight.com - more...)

07/08/2017 - Two spacecraft have completed their journeys to their Kourou launch site ahead of launching together on a September Ariane 5 mission. The BSAT-4a satellite has joined Intelsat 37e for their final processing flow ahead of meeting up atop the Arianespace rocket for a dual launch in early September. (source: nasaspaceflight.com - more...)

04/08/2017 - In preparation for New Horizons flyby of its next Kuiper Belt target, 2014 MU69, the spacecraft s team has conducted a series of ground, airborne, and space-based telescopic examinations of 2014 MU69 during a series of occultation events in June and July. The observation campaign has yielded tantalizing new information on the Kuiper Belt Object, revealing a potentially far more interesting world for New Horizons to explore on 1 January 2019. (source: nasaspaceflight.com - more...)

03/08/2017 - The final work on Kennedy Space Center’s Pad 39B is being conducted in line with the construction and outfitting of systems on the Mobile Launcher (ML) for the Space Launch System (SLS). This multi-element verification and validation (V&V) testing is set to take place next year, a full dress rehearsal ahead of the rollout of the Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1) rocket. (source: nasaspaceflight.com - more...)

02/08/2017 - With a busy year already in the books, the Eastern and Western Ranges in the United States are readying for the next salvo of missions from SpaceX and United Launch Alliance following a stand down of launch operations to provide time for maintenance. Specifically for the Eastern Range, the stand down period allowed the Air Force to complete more than 70 operations that will enable the Range to maintain its commitment and support to its users. (source: nasaspaceflight.com - more...)

01/08/2017 - Arianespace s small launcher, the Vega rocket, successfully conducted the launch of the VEN S and OPTSAT 3000 satellites on Tuesday evening in what was the seventh Earth observation mission for the lightweight rocket. Lift off occurred on schedule at 01:58 UTC from Europe s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. (source: nasaspaceflight.com - more...)

31/07/2017 - The Ground Systems Development and Operations (GSDO) team at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida is continuing construction and testing to get ready to support upcoming Exploration Mission launches. Testing at the Launch Equipment Test Facility (LETF) is in full swing delivering launch vehicle umbilicals and swing arms to the Mobile Launcher (ML). (source: nasaspaceflight.com - more...)

28/07/2017 - The Russian Federal Space Agency, Roscosmos, has launched three new crewmembers to the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz MS-05 vehicle. Liftoff was on schedule at 15:41 GMT (11:41 EDT) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan with a fast-tracked, four-orbit rendezvous with the Station. The MS-05 crew docked to the ISS at 21:54 GMT. (source: nasaspaceflight.com - more...)

27/07/2017 - With all the structural test articles (STA) of the Orion spacecraft at prime contractor Lockheed Martin’s Space Systems facility in the Denver area, work is underway to qualify the elements for the Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1) and Exploration Mission-2 (EM-2) missions to the Moon. Testing of different combinations of spacecraft hardware in support of EM-1 and EM-2 will continue into 2019. (source: nasaspaceflight.com - more...)

26/07/2017 - Launch delays are sometimes part of the equation in determining when specific missions launch in relation to each other. Sometimes, those delays occur to missions for the same agency, as is now the case with TDRS-M and CRS-12. With replacement operations to the TDRS-M omni antenna underway, NASA/United Launch Alliance at first requested 10 August for TDRS-M – then changed that a day later to 20 August. SpaceX has requested 14 August for the CRS-12 Dragon launch to the International Space Station. (source: nasaspaceflight.com - more...)

21/07/2017 - The long-awaited return of American astronauts launching on US spacecraft, a capability last seen when Atlantis closed out the Shuttle Program in 2011, is set to return next year. Along with new crew transporters, the Space Shuttles’ legacy will be honored by the return of a lifting body vehicle, as Dream Chaser makes progress towards her role for uncrewed ISS resupply efforts. (source: nasaspaceflight.com - more...)

19/07/2017 - Developing rockets is difficult – even when those rockets use existing rocket boosters. Such is the case for SpaceX and the development of the Falcon Heavy. Once operational, Falcon Heavy will be the most powerful rocket in the world. While the path to its inaugural mission has been challenging, Elon Musk is urging caution surrounding expectations of the rocket’s first flight, which is expected later this year from LC-39A at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida. (source: nasaspaceflight.com - more...)

18/07/2017 - The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) pathfinder mission has come to an end via the final commanding of the spacecraft. The 16 month mission, has provided the tools for a future mission that may take place – probably not until the 2030s – having successfully demonstrated the technology required to operate a space observatory tasked with studying gravitational waves. (source: nasaspaceflight.com - more...)

17/07/2017 - NASA and Boeing are reviewing the status of the TDRS-M launch date following an incident relating to an antenna during the spacecraft’s final launch processing to launch. The spacecraft’s launch atop United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket is currently scheduled to take place on August 3. (source: nasaspaceflight.com - more...)

15/07/2017 - The first spacecraft to leave the inner solar system sailed into the asteroid belt 45 years ago today, 15 July 1972, on a mission that would mark many firsts for NASA s exploration of the solar system. Pioneer 10, the first outer solar system mission, became the first probe not only to leave the inner solar system, but also the first probe to be launched on an escape trajectory from the solar system and the first craft to visit the planet Jupiter. Today, NASA s Juno spacecraft continues the exploration efforts of the Giant Planet begun by Pioneer 10 over four decades ago. (source: nasaspaceflight.com - more...)

14/07/2017 - Russia conducted a complex mission Friday to deploy seventy-three satellites via a Soyuz-2-1a rocket with a Fregat upper stage. Following liftoff from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 12:36 local time (06:36 UTC), the Fregat upper stage performed a series of burns over eight-and-a-half hours to inject its payloads into their planned polar orbits. (source: nasaspaceflight.com - more...)

11/07/2017 - The Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage (ICPS) is now deep into its latest phase of processing, as it prepares to be housed in the Space Station Processing Facility (SSPF) – a facility once packed with modules waiting for their ride on Shuttles to make up the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The ICPS will be the Upper Stage for the maiden flight of the Space Launch System (SLS). (source: nasaspaceflight.com - more...)

10/07/2017 - Set for launch next year, the BepiColombo spacecraft is coming to the end of its test phase ahead of being shipped to Kourou, French Guiana in readiness to begin a journey to Mercury, opening with a ride on the Ariane 5 rocket. The final major processing tests involved being shaken on a vibrating table and stacked into its launch configuration in ESA’s technical center in the Netherlands. (source: nasaspaceflight.com - more...)

07/07/2017 - With just 20 satellites of the Iridium Next constellation in orbit, Iridium Communications six remaining launches with SpaceX over the next year will place their entire 75 satellite network into polar orbit. The new constellation replaces an aging network and promises innovative, everyday telecommunications applications from airplane location services to maritime distress/communication to public global push-to-talk services to civilian remote wi-fi and cellular network capabilities to thousands of other applications for government, military, and civilian populations. (source: nasaspaceflight.com - more...)


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In this page you can track satellites in real time, predict passes and flares.
(the 3D desktop version is still available for download)

This page is interactive so you can change the time by means of the following keys:

[s] Increase time by 1 second
[S] Decrease time by 1 second
[m] Increase time by 1 minute
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[h] Increase time by 1 hour
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[d] Increase time by 1 day
[D] Decrease time by 1 day
[0] Real time (reset time changes)
More options and commands are available through the ADVANCED button.


Earth Map Legend

Red Line Satellite's Orbit projected on the ground
Blue Line Ground Flare Track (it represents the location where the reflection hits the ground, which is where the flare brightness reaches its maximum.
Green Line Reflected ray that hits the ground generating the flare.
Black Line Shadow ground track (it represents the location where the satellite can be seen crossing either the Sun disk or the Moon disk)

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