The Space Station, right now.
The International Space Station orbits Earth every 92 minutes at roughly 28,000 km/h, 420 km above the surface. It's the third-brightest object in the night sky — only the Sun and Moon outshine it. Use this page to see where it is at this moment, where it's heading next, and when it will pass over your sky.
Ground track shows the next 90 minutes of orbital path — about one full revolution. Marker is the current sub-satellite point.
About the ISS
The International Space Station is a multinational science laboratory in low Earth orbit, continuously inhabited since November 2000. It's a partnership between NASA (United States), Roscosmos (Russia), JAXA (Japan), ESA (Europe), and CSA (Canada). The pressurized volume — about 1,000 cubic meters — is bigger than a six-bedroom house.
It's visible from the ground because its huge solar arrays — more than an acre of photovoltaics — reflect sunlight efficiently. At favorable passes it reaches magnitude −4 or brighter, easily outshining Venus. The station passes over a different part of Earth on each orbit; from any one location you typically get one to four visible passes per night, clustered around dawn and dusk.
When does the ISS pass over you?
Set your location on the main satellite passes page and we'll tell you every visible ISS pass for the next week — second-precise, with magnitude, peak altitude, and direction.
Open the pass predictor