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Simulation 2025 08 / 14

ISS Real-Time Tracker

Live orbital tracking of the International Space Station, streamed into Google Earth.

Built with

Language

  • Python

Skills & tools

  • Skyfield
  • Flask
  • KML
  • Tkinter
  • PySide6
  • PyQtGraph
  • Orbital mechanics
Source on GitHub (opens in a new tab)
Chart of several ISS ground-track orbits across longitude and latitude with a highlighted ground target

Final project for Ariel University's space-engineering course — tracks the ISS from live TLE data, simulates its camera view in Google Earth and steers attitude toward ground targets, with energy and 3D attitude dashboards.

What it does

  • Tracks the ISS in real time using Skyfield and live TLE data.
  • Shows what its camera would see, by streaming KML into Google Earth every few seconds.
  • Two modes — a static north-down view, and dynamic targeting where the station locks onto ground targets and adjusts heading and tilt.
  • Dashboards — a Tkinter simulation GUI for rates and energy use, and a PySide6 3D viewer for attitude.