Where is the ISS? Live 3D tracker
Details
- External ID
- 48182828
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Where is the ISS? Live 3D tracker
- Website domain
- psand.net
- Launched
- May 18, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.1147011308562197
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- space and geospatial visualization tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Analytics & BI
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- real-time iss location tracker
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a 3D WebGL globe (using Three.js or Cesium) that visualizes satellite orbits by pulling public TLE datasets (Celestrak) and propagating positions locally using standard libraries like satellite.js.
Discussion
3 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: ISS label blurred with CYGNUS-XL cargo ship when docked, Debris field and ISS paths crossing visibility
Feature requests: Display altitude information directly in visualization, Better label separation for overlapping objects
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 87 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #79 of 88 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 187 days after the earliest competitor.
- ISS Live Tracker · ph · 2026-09-14 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.69
- Live 3D satellite tracker and the declassified Pentagon UFO archive · hn · 2026-08-23 · 69 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- Where Is Artemis? · hn · 2026-04-05 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- StratoSync · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Live Flight Tracker Map · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- TETrack3D · github · 2026-09-26 · 36 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- THE SPACE · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- VersalSpace · ph · 2026-09-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a analytics & bi tool for Legal yet.