Orbital Traffic
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See when the space station will pass over you — and a globe that's finally right. WHEN CAN I SEE IT? • Open the International Space Station and tap "When can I see it from here?" for its next visible passes over the coming week: the day and local time, where it rises and sets, how high it climbs and how long it takes. Only passes you can really see are listed — your sky dark, the station still in sunlight. Preview jumps the globe to the pass so you can watch it go over. • The same button on a tracked launch train lists its next passes over the coming three days, and how many of its satellites will still be catching sunlight. • Your location is read only when you tap, used once on your device, and never sent or saved. There are no alerts or notifications. WHILE YOU WERE AWAY • Come back after eight hours or more and a short card tells you what changed in orbit: launches, dockings, crew changes and re-entries since your last visit. Switch it off in Settings › Display if you'd rather not. TODAY IN SPACE • Launches now appear within about an hour of liftoff, not days later. Tap one for the launch card: the rocket, who launched it and from where, the liftoff time, how it went, the target orbit and a short summary of the mission. • Every tracked train now opens with a drawing of the string itself: one dot per satellite, with the lead satellite and its direction of travel marked. A MORE ACCURATE GLOBE • The Earth was drawn as a mirror image — east on the left, the planet spinning the wrong way. It's the right way round now. Positions, altitudes and What's Overhead were always correct; only the picture read backwards. • Night now begins at sunset, not before it. Coastlines are drawn at five times the detail: the Great Lakes, Baikal and Victoria are back, Spain and Morocco are no longer joined, and islands like Mallorca and Okinawa appear. Deserts are sand and rainforests green, instead of the other way round. ALSO • Share images redesigned in the app's own style, with the object's orbit and how long one lap takes. • Searching "Roman" answers for NASA's new Roman Space Telescope, alongside Voyager, Webb and the other spacecraft the globe can't show. • Thirteen more satellite photos, so fewer objects share the same picture. • A docked vehicle no longer shows as undocked for a few hours after the station fires its engines.
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Track every satellite, station and spacecraft orbiting Earth — in real time. Orbital Traffic plots more than 19,000 tracked objects on a real-time 3D globe: the International Space Station, crewed capsules and cargo freighters, communications and navigation constellations, science missions, classified payloads, debris, and 77 near-Earth asteroids. Every position is computed on your device from live orbital data. WHAT'S OVERHEAD Tap once to see the notable objects passing high above you right now — elevation and compass bearing for each, so you know where to look. No guessing, no simulation, just orbital mechanics running on your phone. TODAY IN SPACE A live feed of what actually happened up there: dockings and undockings, launches, re-entries, and crew arrivals — read from real catalog data, never hand-written. CATCH A LAUNCH TRAIN A freshly launched batch flies as one long string for its first days in orbit — the "train" people photograph from the ground. Orbital Traffic finds those strings in the live catalog and lights the whole launch on the globe at once, with how high it is, how far apart the satellites have drifted, and how much of the string is left. THOUSANDS OF OBJECTS, EXPLAINED Search the catalog for hand-written profiles on 2,800+ notable objects — who built it, why it's up there — plus live telemetry on everything: altitude, speed, orbit shape and current ground position. FOLLOW THE FLEET Watch crewed capsules and cargo freighters — Dragon, Soyuz, Progress and Cygnus — from launch through docking to landing, and see who's living aboard the International Space Station and Tiangong right now. ASTEROIDS UP CLOSE 77 near-Earth asteroids plotted on their real heliocentric orbits, with close-approach dates and sizes. MAKE IT YOURS Switch between kilometers and miles, star your favorite objects or save them to a watchlist, and turn the motion down if you prefer a calmer globe. SHARE THE SKY Found something interesting in orbit? Generate a shareable card and show everyone what's flying overhead. Real data. Real spacecraft. Right now.
What's new · 2.2.1
See when the space station will pass over you — and a globe that's finally right. WHEN CAN I SEE IT? • Open the International Space Station and tap "When can I see it from here?" for its next visible passes over the coming week: the day and local time, where it rises and sets, how high it climbs and how long it takes. Only passes you can really see are listed — your sky dark, the station still in sunlight. Preview jumps the globe to the pass so you can watch it go over. • The same button on a tracked launch train lists its next passes over the coming three days, and how many of its satellites will still be catching sunlight. • Your location is read only when you tap, used once on your device, and never sent or saved. There are no alerts or notifications. WHILE YOU WERE AWAY • Come back after eight hours or more and a short card tells you what changed in orbit: launches, dockings, crew changes and re-entries since your last visit. Switch it off in Settings › Display if you'd rather not. TODAY IN SPACE • Launches now appear within about an hour of liftoff, not days later. Tap one for the launch card: the rocket, who launched it and from where, the liftoff time, how it went, the target orbit and a short summary of the mission. • Every tracked train now opens with a drawing of the string itself: one dot per satellite, with the lead satellite and its direction of travel marked. A MORE ACCURATE GLOBE • The Earth was drawn as a mirror image — east on the left, the planet spinning the wrong way. It's the right way round now. Positions, altitudes and What's Overhead were always correct; only the picture read backwards. • Night now begins at sunset, not before it. Coastlines are drawn at five times the detail: the Great Lakes, Baikal and Victoria are back, Spain and Morocco are no longer joined, and islands like Mallorca and Okinawa appear. Deserts are sand and rainforests green, instead of the other way round. ALSO • Share images redesigned in the app's own style, with the object's orbit and how long one lap takes. • Searching "Roman" answers for NASA's new Roman Space Telescope, alongside Voyager, Webb and the other spacecraft the globe can't show. • Thirteen more satellite photos, so fewer objects share the same picture. • A docked vehicle no longer shows as undocked for a few hours after the station fires its engines.
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