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This is the google play link for an app I just got a while ago, tracks ISS path and where it is, shows livestreams and should have a few other nice features.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nicedayapps.iss_free
Thank you, that's awesome! My Dad was an Aerospace Engineer. He worked on the Apollo Missions, Mars Viking Lander & on the Space Station's 'Solar Array.' (The long rectangular solar panels that fold out to provide solar power.)
Here's a link to NASA.gov called 'Spot The Station. Enter your basic vicinity & they'll text/email you whenever good viewing opportunities are expected. Summertime is perfect. You can lay in a hammock to watch. Away from city lights is ideal.
Tips: Space Station will be exactly on time, so be ready & watching a few min early. You'll be told direction it will appear from, highest degree of arc (it's in orbit so not flying straight like a plane), how many minutes visible & direction it will be heading as it passes from view.
Space Station has NO blinking or red/green lights, just 1 huge steady Golden "headlight" in front. You'll quickly learn to spot it.
Kids LOVE to watch the ISS. I tell them it helps the Astronauts know they're on course & which direction to steer the spaceship if the kids wave mini-flashlights or glowsticks to point the way. (Omg, it's so funny!)
Your post made me very happy! My Dad was an Aerospace Engineer whose specialty was Propulsion (Rockets). He worked on early satellites, the Apollo Missions, Mars Viking (the Terminal Descent Rocket Engine for landing), THAAD Missile Defense System & International Space Station (the Solar Array). He was Program Manager for many programs, and had a very high security clearance, so there were some projects he could never tell us about.
I love to go outside and watch the International Space Station fly over! I feel instantly close to my Dad when I see it. I'm helping a little 5 yr old neighbor boy learn about Science & Space. I told him it helps NASA find his house at night if he waves his mini flashlight to signal the Astronauts! Lol...It's adorable.
There are multiple free NASA apps. This one is ISS HD Earth NASA - shows you position of ISS on map, watch live feed as ISS soars over Earth, watch sunset & sunrise from space, spacewalks, ISS tours. (Family version is 99 cents.) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nicedayapps.iss_free
I highly recommend signing up for NASA SPOT THE STATION - free notification by email/text when there will be good viewing opportunity for ISS in your area. Time, direction, duration, everything you need. Getting away from city lights gives amazing visibility.
There's another cool link I'll go find for you.
God bless your little Astronaut! My Dad would love his mini Spacesuit. Hope he has a blast at Kennedy Space Center.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nicedayapps.iss_free
In case anyone is curious what app this is, it really is pretty cool. I highly suggest y'all give it a try if you haven't already.
ISS Live Now: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nicedayapps.iss_free
It's a live feed from the International Space Station, gives you a notification when it's passing over you, and shows live launches as well as any docking with the ISS.
> So true. And then u add... im watching a HD full colour photo, on a phone, with no wires, taken by a robot, drilling a hole, on another planet.
and if you are happy with earth's orbit, you can have it live - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nicedayapps.iss_free&hl=en_GB
For Android users https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nicedayapps.iss_free
Here's some of the things it has:
a map of its trajectory and its current location
pass over times current and future, based on your location, which also tell you the visibility of it
SD and HD livestreams which run around the clock
streetview inside the station
NASA TV and recordings (tours etc) by Astronauts
It even gives you notifications when it's about to pass over your location and when there's spacewalks (also livestreamed like the one earlier which went on for 5 or more hours and was AWESOME).
As a lover of these things I can't rate it highly enough.
Edit: here's a screenshot from the app on my phone to show you how it looks
An internet stranger just taught me how to link last week, here goes.
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So ISS link
I have this app on my phone, 'ISIS HD Live' , https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nicedayapps.iss_free&hl=en_US . They have a nice near live photo app but the photo is static. I wish it took photo sphere sequence as it orbits like google maps have, then you could rotate the viewpoint around and feel like your controlling a live camera to get a better view.
I use an app called iss tracker live https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nicedayapps.iss_free
Nah not that but is you want to see them
Checkout https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nicedayapps.iss_free
Same! Have u got the ISS satellite app installed? Highly recommend it
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nicedayapps.iss_free
it could also have been iss
this app will help you with visibility schedule: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nicedayapps.iss_free&hl=en
Also check out this Android app for HD Earth streaming: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nicedayapps.iss_free