

Sign up for this NASA service to be notified of when the Station will be visible overhead! Astronauts working and living on the Station experience 16 sunrises and sunsets each day. At 28 800 km/h it only takes 92 minutes for the weightless laboratory to make a complete circuit of Earth. Observe the Space Station's movements live on a world map. The International Space Station with ESA’s Columbus laboratory flies 400 km high at speeds that defy gravity literally.

Here are some sites and Web applications that will help you track the Station or catch a glimpse of it.įind out when the Station will be passing over your area in the next two weeks. It is usually the brightest object in the night sky after the Moon-bright enough to be seen in urban areas even through all the light pollution. To the naked eye, the Space Station looks like a big white dot that moves quickly across the sky without changing direction, unlike aircraft, for example. Scott Kelly posted this photo to Twitter on July 25. It was the longest single human spaceflight ever. It is the third brightest object in the sky and easy to spot if you know when to look up. (Credit: Andrew Yee)ĭid you know that you can see the International Space Station ( ISS) in the night sky as it passes over your area at a distance of approximately 400 km from Earth? From 2015 to 2016, Kelly spent 340 consecutive days on the space station. Watch the International Space Station pass overhead from several thousand worldwide locations. The ISS shoots over Toronto in this time-lapse photo taken on February 13, 2013. The International Space Station will be perfectly visible from earth in cities including Ahmedabad, Jaipur and Delhi, where the ISS will be seen passing right overhead tonight. View from International Space Station in orbit above Earth In 2018, a member of the Expedition 57 crew aboard the International Space Station (or ISS) captured this image while orbiting above South Australia.The orange band enveloping the Earth is called airglow, which is caused by atoms in the upper atmosphere emitting photons.
