Track ESA spacecraft online
Mon Apr 30, 2007 at 14:11 UTC
Ever wondered if Envisat, Integral or the ISS was overhead? Now you can view the location of ESA's Earth-orbiting spacecraft and other ESA-related missions in real-time via the new 'Track ESA Spacecraft' tracking site.
It can also show ground tracks for ESA (and ESA's partners) space observatory missions, including Integral, XMM-Newton, Cluster, Hubble Space Telescope, GIOVE-A, ERS-2, Envisat and Proba.
The tracker works as a gadget - a small slice of Java code combined with a traditional HTML-based web page and hosted on multiple servers. The satellite location data is combined with map images provided by Google maps, plus formatting instructions, and automatically updated on the site. The actual satellite locations are updated every hour.
European Space Agency News Release
