About SpaceTrack

This site is an online satellite tracking system that allows you to view in real time positions of various space objects in Earth's orbit, such as the International Space Station (ISS), the Space Shuttle, GPS and Iridium satellite constellations, and over 5000 spacecraft and debris. You can also view visibility footprints and tracks of space objects predicted using data collected by NORAD and usually updated on a daily basis. The precision of satellite footprint and track calculation can be customized to your needs.

Many powerful and interesting features are planned; if you have your own ideas, please use the Feedback tab to submit them!

• Copyright David Parunakian (Skobeltsyn institute of nuclear physics, MSU), 2009-2011.
• NORAD TLEs maintained by Dr.T.S.Kelso (Celestrak).

Report bugs and suggest features

What do you want?
-Mr.Morden

Development roadmap

Features

1. Uploadable and approvable icons
2. NSSDC NMC mirror
3. Fix feedback
4. Fix resizing the window on pages other than Tracker
5. Fix satellite name icons
6. Fix launch dates and country flags
7. Make V3-compatible version of the day/night overlay
8. Use a GeoIP service
9. Mirror NSSDC content with cron

Optimizations

10. Download calculated predictions from the server cache, if they are available
11. Improve footprint calculation performance

Uninterrupted workflow fixes

12. Regularly download and apply new TLEs and spacecraft info
13. Manage updates to satellite and section lists (new/decayed sats in lists)
14. Process decays of objects currently being tracked

Special sauce

15. Ajax & HTML APIs for tracking a single satellite by its id in an iframe
16. Set icons, trajectory and footprint colors for individual satellites
17. Personal accounts with customizations
18. Predict tools & visualizations
19. RSS with launch/decay announcements