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What's on the Sky Globe right now

The globe is a live satellite tracker: it shows 18,401 objects in orbit where they really are: 2 space stations, 10,688 Starlink satellites, 5,496 other satellites and 2,215 spent rocket stages. Their positions are worked out in your browser from orbit data we refresh every six hours.

Look up stands you on the ground, in your area or anywhere on the globe, and shows the sky the way you'd see it: the satellites and space stations passing over with their names, planes with their flight and height, rocket launches as they climb, the Moon, the Sun, the planets and the brightest stars, over the real ground with 3D buildings from OpenStreetMap. The sky gets dark when it's dark there, and the time slider plays it forward or back.

Next launches

  • The Sea God Surveys (iQPS Launch 9), Electron from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand, November 2, 2026 4:00 PM UTC
  • SpaceSail Polar Group TBD?, Kinetica 2 from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China, November 3, 2026 12:10 AM UTC
  • USSF-432, Falcon 9 from Vandenberg, California, November 3, 2026 1:42 AM UTC
  • Demo Flight, Mir from Sea Launch, November 4, 2026 5:00 AM UTC
  • Unknown Payload, Ceres-2 from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China, November 4, 2026 9:00 PM UTC
  • Unknown Payload, Long March 2C from Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China, November 5, 2026 4:00 PM UTC
  • SatNet LEO Group TBD?, Long March 12 from Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China, November 5, 2026 9:15 PM UTC
  • Starlink Group 15-21, Falcon 9 from Vandenberg, California, November 6, 2026 2:21 AM UTC

Every launch, city by city · The next eclipses · Meteor showers

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Asteroids passing Earth

  • 2026 UD, October 30, 2026: 11.6 times the Moon's distance, 7.7 km/s, roughly 25 m across
  • 2025 UK9, October 31, 2026: 0.8 times the Moon's distance, 7.8 km/s, roughly 4 m across
  • 524522 Zoozve (2002 VE68), November 2, 2026: 15.7 times the Moon's distance, 8.7 km/s, roughly 277 m across
  • 2021 VC4, November 3, 2026: 6 times the Moon's distance, 11.2 km/s, roughly 15 m across
  • 2017 WJ2, November 5, 2026: 15.6 times the Moon's distance, 11.8 km/s, roughly 118 m across

Coming down soon

  • Starlink-1283 (Starlink satellite), predicted November 1, 2026 2:57 AM UTC
  • Starlink-3306 (Starlink satellite), predicted November 2, 2026 10:53 PM UTC

Reentry watch

Recent fireballs

  • October 4, 2026: 41.8° S, 173.1° W, 26.9 km up, 13.8 km/s
  • September 15, 2026: 37.6° S, 161.6° W, 37 km up
  • September 11, 2026: 0.2° S, 129.6° W, 70 km up
  • September 11, 2026: 54.4° N, 100.1° W, 38 km up, 20.7 km/s
  • September 10, 2026: 19.3° S, 28.1° W, 33.6 km up, 19.3 km/s

Fireballs reach NASA's list days to weeks after they happen.

Credits: Earth images, city lights, clouds and the land and water map from NASA GIBS (Blue Marble, Black Marble, Landsat WELD, GOES, Himawari, VIIRS) and OpenStreetMap contributors; aerial photos of the US from the USGS National Map; orbits from CelesTrak and Space-Track.org (USSPACECOM); launches from Launch Library 2 (The Space Devs); fireballs, asteroids and their paths from NASA JPL; aurora from NOAA SWPC; planes from adsb.lol (ODbL), with routes and aircraft from adsbdb.com; place names, borders, roads and buildings from OpenStreetMap contributors via OpenFreeMap; stars from the Yale Bright Star Catalogue. Drawn with three.js and satellite.js; eclipses worked out with Astronomy Engine. All data sources.