Real-time tracking of the International Space Station - live position, telemetry, and crew manifest.
🔗 Live Site → libinfaby.dev/iss-info
ISS Tracker is a live web dashboard that monitors the International Space Station in real time. It displays the current orbital position on an interactive map, streams telemetry data every second, and shows the full crew manifest of ISS and TIANGONG with biographical details.
- 🗺️ Live orbital map - ISS position updated every second on a dark interactive map with day/night terminator overlay
- 📡 Real-time telemetry - latitude, longitude, altitude, velocity, and visibility status
- 🌍 Location detection - reverse geocoding to show which country or ocean the ISS is currently passing over
- 👨🚀 Crew manifest - full list of astronauts currently aboard, including spacecraft, agency, role, and Wikipedia links
- 🌐 All-stations view - shows all humans currently in space, with Tiangong crew clearly distinguished from ISS crew
| Category | Technology |
|---|---|
| Map | Leaflet.js + Jawg Dark tiles |
| Day/Night overlay | Leaflet.Terminator |
| ISS position | WhereTheISS.at API |
| Reverse geocoding | Nominatim / OpenStreetMap |
| Crew data | corquaid ISS API |
| Astronaut bios | Wikipedia API |
| Country flags | flagcdn.com |
| Fonts | Space Mono + Syne via Google Fonts |
No build tools or dependencies required. Clone the repo and open index.html directly in your browser:
git clone https://github.com/libinfaby/iss-info.git
cd iss-info
open index.html- ISS position is fetched every 1 second from WhereTheISS.at
- Reverse geocoding is throttled to once every 30 seconds to stay within Nominatim's usage policy
- Crew data is fetched once on page load from the corquaid GitHub Pages API
- Leaflet.js
- OpenStreetMap
- Jawg Maps
- Leaflet.Terminator
- WhereTheISS.at
- corquaid ISS API
- Nominatim
- MediaWiki API
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