International Space Station

The marker follows the sub-satellite point — the spot on the ground directly beneath the station. It moves about seven and a half kilometres every second.

Current fix

Latitude-27.3192

Longitude-54.3811

Altitude426.4km

Speed7.66km/s

Sunlightin shadow

Footprint4540km

The station orbits at roughly 420 kilometres and completes a lap every 92 minutes. Because Earth turns underneath it, the ground track shifts about 22 degrees west on each pass.

Who is aboard

ISS

Alexander Grebenkin
Butch Wilmore
Jeanette Epps
Matthew Dominick
Michael Barratt
Nikolai Chub
Oleg Kononenko
Sunita Williams
Tracy Caldwell Dyson

Tiangong

Li Cong
Li Guangsu
Ye Guangfu