Position is a reported fix, not a continuous observation. The glowing trail and cyan orbit are predictions from orbital elements, not recorded travel.
Story of the station
Assembly began in 1998. Crews have lived aboard continuously since November 2000. The orbiting laboratory is a partnership for research in microgravity.
Expedition 75 crew
Crew list unavailable.
Last checked against NASA on Sep 27, 2026. List hides after 72 hours to avoid stale names during crew changes. Tap a name to open its Wikipedia article.
Model: NASA 3D Resources. NASA does not endorse PANOPTES.
PREDICTED POSITION · TLE
Tiangong · China Space Station
Tiangong position and orbit are paused until independent fresh data agrees. No current location is shown. No verified public camera stream is available here.
China’s crewed orbital research station began with the Tianhe core module in 2021. Research includes microgravity and space technology.
Current crew
Crew list unavailable for reliable automatic updates. Please use an official mission source for current names and roles.
Orbit source under review. No current Tiangong track is displayed.
Model temperature
-45°C-20°0°20°45°C
Open-Meteo · CC BY 4.0 · coarse model
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In Single, choose one station. In Both together, tap either or both.Foreground controls icons, labels and outlines. Text stays at least 70% visible.
PANOPTES
Created by Paarth Jawalkar. An Earth explorer. Well optimized.
Data and credits
Credits are ordered by what makes this view useful, while each source is named for the part it supplies. On-map provider attribution remains visible.
Bing Maps aerial imagery: the visible Earth imagery arrives through Cesium ion. PANOPTES adds its own interface and controls; Bing does not supply live aircraft or station locations.
CesiumJS and Cesium ion: one credit for the 3D globe renderer, world terrain, imagery delivery, OSM Buildings, and built-in water-mask sun glint when enabled. There is no third-party live ocean camera or custom ray tracing. CesiumJS is Apache-2.0 licensed; terrain, imagery and buildings have separate terms.
Where the ISS at?: reported ISS position and orbital elements. PANOPTES calculates the single predicted orbit with satellite.js; the line is not recorded travel or a live camera view.
TLE API: a candidate for Tiangong orbital elements. It returned inconsistent epochs, so PANOPTES has paused the Tiangong marker and track rather than claiming a current position.
Open-Meteo: model temperature for the optional broad-area color overlay, CC BY 4.0. PANOPTES interpolates coarse points; this is not a street-level reading.
OpenStreetMap contributors and Nominatim: OSM building/place data, plus geographic search and reverse geocoding. They do not provide PANOPTES live satellite positions.
Wikipedia and Wikidata: landmark search and ranking. Wikipedia text is not republished; Wikidata is CC0.
NASA ISS 3D model: optimized for on-demand viewing. NASA live ISS views: third-party video opened on demand, not a guaranteed always-live interior feed. NASA does not endorse PANOPTES.
satellite.js: MIT-licensed SGP4 calculations using external orbital elements, not its own live tracking data.
Nasalization by Typodermic Fonts: supplied static PANOPTES wordmark image. Body text uses system fonts.
Aircraft positions are paused; no flight provider supplies live positions to this preview. The candidate adsb.lol feed failed upstream, so this page does not credit it as active flight data. Other emailed providers have not yet replied. Google Photorealistic 3D Tiles are not enabled. This app is not for navigation.
Help
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FAQ
Why are flights paused? The free data feed is unavailable right now. No flights are invented. Why do some buildings look plain? This view uses open building geometry, not photorealistic models.
