Orbinauts shows where the International Space Station is right now and when it will next pass over you: a live map, a page for each of 300 cities with the next 10 days of passes in local time, a page per satellite with its position, orbit and elements, and a public API that answers the same questions in JSON.
It is built and run by one engineer in Germany, as a hobby. There are no ads, no accounts and no tracking of individual visitors, and nothing on the site is for sale. The API is free to use within a rate limit, and everything it answers may be reused under an open licence with one credit line.
Orbinauts is not affiliated with NASA, with Space-Track, with the US Space Force or with any space agency; it reads their published data and says where every number comes from. Its answers are estimates for people who want to look up, not for anything on which safety depends.
- How it works: where the orbits come from and how a pass is computed.
- Data sources and licence: who publishes what, and what you may do with the answers.
- The API reference: every endpoint, with examples.
- Contact: write about a wrong pass time, a missing city or anything else.