International Space Station
Spot The Station
Notice to Yahoo! Users
Some Yahoo! accounts may experience delayed alert messages.Yahoo! is currently deferring some alert emails from Spot The Station, causing delivery delays of up to two days. NASA is currently working with Yahoo! to fix the issue as quickly as possible. Yahoo! users of Spot The Station will receive a notification when the delays have been resolved.
Sign Up for Alerts
Spot The Station is available worldwide to anyone with an email account or SMS-enabled phone. Several times a week, Mission Control at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX, determines sighting opportunities for 4,600 locations worldwide. If your specific city or town isn’t listed, pick one that is fairly close to you. The space station is visible for a long distance around each of the listed locations.
This service will only notify you of “good” sighting opportunities - that is, sightings that are high enough in the sky (40 degrees or more) and last long enough to give you the best view of the orbiting laboratory. This will be anywhere from once or twice a week to once or twice a month, depending on the space station’s orbit. Don’t worry if there are big gaps in between sightings! A complete list of all possible space station sightings is available at Spot The Station’s location sightings pages.
Right now more than 471,090 people are signed up to Spot The Station!
How to Use Spot The Station
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