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What is above us now: the station overhead, the next launches, who is up there, and the Sun's weather.

The station overhead

The International Space Station, where Browse computes it is right now.

DERIVED
Latitude
49.63° S
Longitude
123.36° E
Altitude
435 km
Speed
27,547 km/h
Below it
Night
The station
In Earth's shadow

Computed by Browse with SGP4 from orbital elements of 5 Oct 01:07 UTC (17 h old), which drift a few kilometres a day. Orbital elements: ARISS, the station's published two-line elements.

the next orbit the last 45 minutes launch sites below

When you can see it

Follow a place in Places and its next visible passes appear here, computed on this device.

A visible pass: the station at least 10° above the horizon and in sunlight while the sky there is dark. Predicted from the same elements; your places are never sent anywhere for this.

Next launches

As scheduled by the providers and recorded by The Space Devs.

FORECAST

  1. GoSpaceX · Falcon 9 Block 5

    SDA Tranche 1 Transport Layer A

    T−14:27:276 Oct 08:17 UTC

    Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA · Polar Orbit · Government/Top Secret

    Tranche 1 Transport Layer A is one of six missions by the United States Space Force Space Development Agency (SDA) for the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA) Tranche 1 Transport Layer constellation, which will provide…

  2. GoKorea Aerospace Research Institute · KSLV-2 Nuri

    NeonSat-2 to 6

    T−1d 09:33:277 Oct 03:23 UTC

    Naro Space Center, South Korea · Sun-Synchronous Orbit · Earth Science

    NeonSat-2 to 6 are part of the South Korean government's Earth observation micro-satellite constellation NeonSat (New-space Earth Observation Satellite).

  3. GoChina Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation · Long March 12

    Unknown Payload

    NET, to the hour9 Oct 19:25 UTC (precise to the hour)

    Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China · Unknown · Unknown

    Details TBD.

  4. GoSpaceX · Falcon 9 Block 5

    Starlink Group 15-25

    T−5d 05:10:2710 Oct 23:00 UTC

    Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA · Low Earth Orbit · Communications

    A batch of 27 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

  5. GoSpaceX · Falcon 9 Block 5

    Dragon CRS-2 SpX-35

    T−7d 16:44:1113 Oct 10:33 UTC

    Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA · Low Earth Orbit · Resupply

    35th commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station operated by SpaceX.

  6. GoMitsubishi Heavy Industries · H3-24

    Martian Moon eXplorer (MMX)

    T−14d 01:51:3019 Oct 19:41 UTC

    Tanegashima Space Center, Japan · Mars Orbit · Planetary Science

    MMX is a Japanese scientific mission to land on Phobos, one of the two moons of Mars, to collect samples before bringing them back to Earth.

Launch Library 2, The Space Devs, read just now. NET means no earlier than; dates move.

People in space

Who is off the planet right now.

STATISTIC

14 people

NASA

RFSA

CNSA

  • Zhu Yangzhu134 days up DERIVED
  • Zhang Zhiyuan134 days up DERIVED
  • Lai Ka-ying134 days up DERIVED

CSA

ESA

The Space Devs' list of astronauts in space, read just now; days up counted by Browse from each one's launch.

Space weather

The Sun's activity and what it does to Earth's magnetic field, from NOAA.

On the live wall

Geomagnetic storms

NOAA G scale, 0 to 5

Geomagnetic activity: unsettledSWPC's word for Kp 2.67

G0 noneOBSERVED

Now, as NOAA stamped it 5 Oct 17:46 UTC

Highest in the past 24 hours: G2 · radio blackouts R0 · solar radiation S0 OBSERVED

  • 5 Oct 2026G0 none · R1 to R2 radio blackouts 5% · S1+ 1%FORECAST
  • 6 Oct 2026G0 none · R1 to R2 radio blackouts 5% · S1+ 1%FORECAST
  • 7 Oct 2026G0 none · R1 to R2 radio blackouts 5% · S1+ 1%FORECAST
Evidence & method

NOAA's own scales: G for geomagnetic storms, R for radio blackouts, S for solar radiation storms. "Now" and the past 24 hours are observed; today and the next two days are NOAA's forecast, with its probabilities as it gives them.

Planetary K-index

0 to 9, every three hours

Kp 2.67OBSERVED

For the three hours from 5 Oct 12:00 UTC, from 8 stations

2026-09-28 00:00low 0.3 · high 5.72026-10-05 12:00

Highest in NOAA's forecast for the periods still to come: Kp 3.67, the three hours from 5 Oct 21:00 UTC FORECAST

Evidence & method

The chart shows only three-hour periods that had ended when Browse read the feed. NOAA's product labels some later periods "estimated" with its forecast's values, so any period that had not ended is shown as a FORECAST, whatever the feed calls it, and a forecast period that has ended since is no longer shown as ahead. Kp 5 is a G1 storm on NOAA's scale. "Quiet", "unsettled" and "active" are SWPC's glossary words for a-index ranges; Browse converts the Kp to ap with the standard table to choose one.

Alerts and warnings

NOAA SWPC ↗

  • OBSERVEDSWPC ALERT (a threshold was reached)14 h ago

    ALERT: Geomagnetic K-index of 5

    ALTK05, serial 2054 · issued 5 Oct 03:52 UTC

  • ALERTSWPC WARNING (expected)14 h ago

    WARNING: Geomagnetic K-index of 5 expected

    WARK05, serial 2269 · issued 5 Oct 03:50 UTC

  • ALERTSWPC WARNING (expected)16 h ago

    WARNING: Geomagnetic K-index of 4 expected

    WARK04, serial 5426 · issued 5 Oct 01:56 UTC

  • OBSERVEDSWPC ALERT (a threshold was reached)18 h ago

    ALERT: Geomagnetic K-index of 5

    ALTK05, serial 2053 · issued 4 Oct 23:57 UTC

  • OBSERVEDSWPC ALERT (a threshold was reached)21 h ago

    ALERT: Geomagnetic K-index of 6

    ALTK06, serial 726 · issued 4 Oct 20:58 UTC

Evidence & method

SWPC's words, translated into Browse's: an SWPC ALERT means a threshold was reached, so it is OBSERVED here; a WARNING or a WATCH says something is expected, so it is an ALERT here, never the event; a SUMMARY says what happened. SWPC's own headline is quoted.

Source: NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center (public domain). Browse is not affiliated with or endorsed by NOAA.