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Live Earth
Where the space station is now
- Latitude
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- Longitude
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- Altitude
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- Speed
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- Below
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- Sunlight
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Daily briefing
What matters in space today
Your sky tonight
What you can see
The Moon
Space weather
What the Sun is doing right now — and what it means down here.
Earth's magnetic field · Kp index
The last three days, and NOAA's forecast
NOAA storm scales
Right now & tomorrow
Solar flares · X-rays
The last six hours
The Sun, live
Seen in 171 ångström light
Aurora forecast · next 30–90 minutes
Where the lights are
Space weather alerts · NOAA · last 7 days
Events from the Sun
Near Earth
Asteroids passing by, the ones astronomers keep an eye on, and fireballs that lit up the sky.
Closest flyby today
How close is close? · log scale
Today's and upcoming flybys, measured in Moon distances
Next 60 days · within 10 Moon distances
Upcoming close approaches
JPL Sentry watchlist
The asteroids we watch most closely
Fireballs
Recent bright meteors detected from space
Launches
Where the next rockets will fly from, counted down to the second — and how big they are.
Launch radar
Where the next rockets will fly from
Launch sites appear on the map once the backend is updated to version 2.2.
Glowing dots are launch pads; they pulse faster as liftoff gets closer. The bright side of the map is where it's daytime now. The dashed line is the direction the rocket will probably fly — an estimate worked out from its target orbit.
Coming up
Launch schedule
Rocket hangar
The rockets flying next, side by side
Every rocket is drawn to the same scale, from published dimensions, next to things you know. Tap one for its numbers, then press Launch it.
People in space
Everyone who is off the planet right now.
Voices to follow
Three people who make space make sense
Mission log
The latest spaceflight news from agencies and newsrooms around the world.
Latest
More stories
The archive
Recent pictures of the day, this date in years past, and today's Earth from a million miles away.
The plates
The last twelve pictures of the day
Choose one to show it above.
On this date
The picture of the day, years ago
EPIC · 1.5 million km away
Earth, turning
Almanac
This day in space history, the sky calendar ahead, new worlds and our own planet.
On this day
In space history
Meteor showers
Next peaks
Eclipses
Coming up
New worlds
Planets around other stars
Our planet · last 30 days
Natural events tracked by NASA
Where to look up
Ten of the darkest skies on Earth — and whether tonight is a good night there.
The desk
A daily quiz, your age on other worlds, and the badges you've earned.
Today's three questions
The daily quiz
Three new questions every day at midnight — one of them built from today's live data. Your score stays on this device.
You, elsewhere
Your age and weight on other worlds
Stays on this device — nothing is sent anywhere.
Badges
Your mission patches
How far is that?