Space Station Flyover
An unusually bright object will glide across the evening sky late this week appearing brighter than all of the stars and planets in the sky but you ll need to know where and when to look up.
Space station flyover. The dark overlay indicates where it is nighttime in the world. Spot the station will give you a list of upcoming space station sighting opportunities for your location. It is the third brightest object in the sky and easy to spot if you know when to look up.
Live space station tracking map. The tracker top map shows where the space station is right now and its path 90 minutes ago 1 5 hr and 90 minutes ahead 1 5 hr. The map of earth below the tracker shows where the space station is flying directly above.
Watch the international space station pass overhead from several thousand worldwide locations. Thursday and friday evenings will bring the perfect opportunity for those across the eastern united states to see the international space station iss fly overhead. Visible to the naked eye it looks like a fast moving plane only much higher and traveling thousands of miles an hour faster.