ISS Live Now: View Earth Live

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4.7
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PEGI 3
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About this app

NASA astronauts Barry 'Butch' Wilmore and Sunita 'Suni' Williams face extended time aboard the International Space Station (ISS) due to technical issues with Boeing's Starliner capsule. Follow their journey, the challenges of the mission, and efforts to ensure their safe return, now planned with SpaceX's Crew Dragon in 2025.

Take a Journey into Space with Our Live Earth Cam: Embark on a journey like no other and witness the incredible sights of our planet from the vantage point of the International Space Station with our 24/7 live stream.

If you like space or astronomy then you will love ISS Live Now.

ISS Live Now gives you easy access to a live video feed of Earth from the International Space Station, which is orbiting about 400 kilometers (250 miles) above the planet. The app provides an exciting experience marked by thoughtful design and features numerous customization options.

With ISS Live Now, you can view amazing live HD video streams directly from the International Space Station’s cameras.

The app utilizes the native Android Google Map (ISS tracker), which allows you to follow the Space Station’s orbit around our planet. You can zoom, rotate, drag and tilt the map; choose between different types of maps (such as satellite or terrain); and view data such as the speed of orbit, altitude, visibility, latitude and longitude, and even what country the Station is above at any moment in time. All of these options are easily customizable from the settings menu.

You will have seven different sources of live video streaming, including:

1. Live HD camera: A wonderful HD video stream of our planet.
2. Live standard camera: It shows a live stream of the Earth and, from time to time, details about the ISS (like tests, maintenance and communication with Earth).
3. NASA TV: The television service of the United States government agency NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration). You can watch science and space documentaries, interviews with scientists, astronauts, engineers, and personalities such as Elon Musk.
4. NASA TV Media.
5. Spacewalk (recorded): Beautiful HD images of astronauts from cameras outside the ISS.
6. Inside the International Space Station: Take a video tour of each module inside the ISS, all explained by the astronauts.
7. Eventual channel: Temporary live cameras from NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), the Russian Space Agency (Roscosmos), and SpaceX.

You even have the option to be notified when the next sunset or sunrise will occur, allowing you to watch it live directly from the International Space Station.

You will be able to receive notifications on time and watch live events such as arrival and departure of manned and unmanned spacecrafts (Soyuz, SpaceX Crew Dragon, Boeing CST-100 Starliner, Rocket Lab, Arianespace, Blue Origin, Northrop Grumman), spacewalks, launches (Falcon, SpaceX, Dragon, Progress, Cygnus, ATV, JAXA HTV Kounotori), dockings, undockings, rendezvous, captures, experiments, communications between NASA's/Roscosmos ground control and astronauts.

Do you want to see the ISS in the sky at night?
This is the easiest way to spot the Station. With the built-in ISS detector tool, ISS Live Now will tell you when and where to look for the Space Station. You’ll receive a notification a few minutes before it passes by your location.

You can also choose to be notified when the ISS is about to pass over your region during the day, allowing you to admire your country from space.

Explore the International Space Station with Google Street View.

Thanks to Google, aspiring astronauts can now simulate the experience of floating on the International Space Station (ISS). The company worked with astronauts to provide a Google Street View from Cupola window.
Updated on
1 Feb 2025

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
This app may share these data types with third parties
App info and performance
This app may collect these data types
Location, Personal info and 4 others
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.7
348K reviews
Dale Krawetz
16 December 2024
This is the second time I've downloaded an app representative of the ISS. That's a large order to be able to glimpse into space at any given time. And this time around you can text, and chat with the occupants of the Space Station, and live at that!! I hope that you enjoy this app as well as I do it's very peaceful and the perfect atmosphere in which to meditate.
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Christi Doolittle
16 January 2025
Absolutely.Insightful, app period what an enjoyable interruption to my day being able to see ISS gracefully spanning the globe. Today they're doing a spacewalk and have another camera with additional angles, and it's just beautiful. I much appreciate everything you're sharing in your efforts! I am looking on how I can share your link with others. Thank you!
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CandiLayne Bookout
4 February 2025
The international space station is awesome. I particularly love when the astronauts talk to us regular earthlings... I wish that "hotty astronaut" with the guitar would sing me a song.. I recommend this app to anyone that is at all interested in being a human being living on the planet Earth... This app reminds you that we are all part of the human race.. and we have more in common than we acknowledge daily.
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What's new

• Added a high-definition live camera from SEN

Older version:

• Added NASA+ Plus content
• Improved ISS detetctor tool
• Added video download feature
• Added ISS Tour (Google Street View)
• Fixed video loading issues
• Added prediction passes
• Improvements in the chat
• Added reply feature in the chat
• Added play/pause control
• Improved browser
• Added live chat
• Added resolution control
• Added new cameras
• Capture video
• Improved video & map loading
• Improved map navigation