Where the ISS at?

by wheretheiss.at

Science and space Added on October 31st, 2026 Checked and working on November 2nd, 2026

What it does

Where the ISS at? tells you where the International Space Station is right now: latitude, longitude, altitude, speed and whether it is in daylight. You can also ask for positions at past or future timestamps and get the two-line element (TLE) data for orbit calculations. Responses are JSON. Free, no key needed, with a limit of about one request per second.

API
HTTP-GET
JSON
REST

At a glance

API key: Not needed · More APIs with no key
Pricing: Free, no key needed, with a limit of about one request per second.
From the browser: Yes (CORS)
Formats: JSON
Interface: REST, HTTP-GET
Provider: wheretheiss.at
Last checked: Working on November 2nd, 2026

More information: https://wheretheiss.at/w/developer

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HTML

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Markdown

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Example request

curl

curl 'https://api.wheretheiss.at/v1/satellites/25544'

JavaScript

const response = await fetch("https://api.wheretheiss.at/v1/satellites/25544");
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);

Python

import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://api.wheretheiss.at/v1/satellites/25544",
    timeout=30,
)
print(response.json())

The JavaScript works in a web page as well as in Node.js 18 or newer.