Embed the live map
One line of HTML shows the live map on your page, as below. It draws 32,000 objects in orbit: the ISS, Hubble and every satellite, rocket body and piece of debris, with the ground track of the one selected in the frame and the twilight and night bands, kept current in the reader’s browser.
Preview
The snippet
Paste it where the map should appear. The line under the frame is the attribution: keep it.
<iframe src="https://orbinauts.com/embed/map" title="Live satellite map by Orbinauts" width="100%" height="480" loading="lazy" style="border:0"></iframe> <p><a href="https://orbinauts.com/">Live satellite tracker map by Orbinauts — 32,000 objects in orbit: the ISS, Hubble and every satellite, rocket body and piece of debris</a></p>
The frame opens on ISS. Add the alias of a satellite or a constellation to the frame’s address to open it there instead, as in https://orbinauts.com/embed/map?select=tiangong. Every satellite and constellation with an alias
Any satellite’s catalogue number opens the frame on that satellite, as https://orbinauts.com/embed/map?select=48274 opens it on Tiangong; a satellite in a constellation has no alias of its own, and its constellation’s page lists its number.
To frame a map with less on it, add hide= to the frame’s address with what to leave out, separated by commas: the kinds of satellite station, telescope, earth-observer, communications, navigation, other, the rest of the catalogue rocket-body, debris, unknown, and the orbits leo, meo, geo, igso, heo. The satellite selected in the frame is always drawn; https://orbinauts.com/embed/map?hide=telescope,earth-observer,communications,navigation,other,rocket-body,debris,unknown frames the stations alone.
Add at= and an instant in UTC, up to 7 days back or ahead, and the frame shows the map at that instant rather than live, as a still with a line saying when: https://orbinauts.com/embed/map?select=tiangong&at=2026-09-25T09:40:00Z. It does so at any width of frame, though the full map has Playback and the Widgets only on a window at least 1024 pixels wide. Its positions are propagated from today’s orbits; an instant further away opens the live map.
To narrow it to what you know, add any of these: name= with a name or a catalogue number; constellation= with one of beidou, bluebird, galileo, glonass, gps, starlink, oneweb, kuiper, qianfan, iridium; country= with the owner’s code in the US catalogue, such as us, prc, cis, esa; and altitude= in kilometres (the whole orbit), inclination= in degrees, period= in minutes, launch= a year and mass= in kilograms, each a range written from-to, such as 300-600, with either end left out to leave it open, or one number for one value. They narrow together and with hide=; https://orbinauts.com/embed/map?constellation=starlink&altitude=300-600 frames the Starlink satellites between 300 and 600 km.
Show the next pass on your page
Every city page also offers its card: a picture of the next visible pass, refreshed every hour, that links back to the city page. Here is the one for Madrid, with its snippets; every city page has its own.
Paste the snippet your page or forum takes. The link around the picture is the attribution: keep it.
HTML
<a href="https://orbinauts.com/places/spain/madrid"><img src="https://orbinauts.com/places/spain/madrid/card.png" width="1200" height="630" alt="Next visible pass over Madrid" style="max-width:100%;height:auto"></a>
BBCode, for forums
[url=https://orbinauts.com/places/spain/madrid][img]https://orbinauts.com/places/spain/madrid/card.png[/img][/url]
Free on the same terms as the embed: keep the credit line drawn in the picture and the link to the city page around it.
Terms
Free for any page, commercial pages included, as long as the attribution stays: the line inside the frame and the link under it, both pointing at the full map. There is no limit on the number of pages.
What the address names, an alias, a satellite’s catalogue number or what to leave out, only chooses what the frame shows: the attribution stays either way, whichever satellite is shown.
To show the map without the attribution, or under your own name, write to hello@orbinauts.com for a licence.