Live orbital tracking
The ISS and Tiangong, as they orbit
Watch both crewed stations in real time. Follow the ISS or Tiangong on the map as they orbit Earth, click any point along the trajectory to see the estimated arrival time, the location below and much more.
Photographed from the station
Earth and a Soyuz spacecraft, 1 April 2015. NASA. Public domain.
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Crewed stations
The ISS and Tiangong, both crewed, both shown as they orbit Earth.
~90 min
One revolution
Low Earth orbit. Each station completes about sixteen orbits a day.
3 hrs
Calculated trajectory
The line ahead of each station shows the next three hours of its ground track.
2D and 3D
One ground track
The flat map and the globe follow the same path.
The stations on this map
Read the notes
ISS
International Space Station
A shared laboratory, crewed without interruption since 2000.
In orbit
Since 1998
Crewed
Since 2000
Inclination
51.6°
NASA / Crew-2 · Public domain
CSS
Tiangong
China’s station, completed in 2022, on a tighter band of latitude.
Core module
Tianhe, 2021
T configuration
2022
Inclination
41.5°
China Manned Space Engineering Office · CC BY 4.0
Follow a pass
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Open the map
Positions update as the stations orbit earth.
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Follow either one
ISS or Tiangong stays centered on the flat map and on the globe.
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Read the track
The line drawn ahead is three hours of calculated trajectory.