ISS Insight 🛰️

Real-Time International Space Station (ISS) Tracker with Python

A Python script that fetches TLE data of the ISS (ZARYA) satellite, calculates its position, predicts its orbit and visualizes its trajectory on an interactive map. Thanks to Celestrak We can access to the TLE data of satellites, including International Space Station.

If you are curious or interested about the project, read more on the blog: Project: ISS Insight

Libraries

Required libraries:

• Skyfield (Documentation)
• Folium (Documentation)
• Selenium (Documentation)
• Datetime (Documentation)
• Time (Documentation)
• OS (Documentation)

Running the Script

• Clone the project git clone https://github.com/BazarganDev/ISS-Insight.git
• Install required modules pip install -r requirements.txt
• Run the script and wait for the map to launch python3 tracker.py

Output

Updates

The project still have some room for improvement. So if you have any thoughts to improve the source code, feel free to create a pull request. If you have any suggestions or thinking about collaboration, let me know in the issues section.

To-Do

• Fix bugs
• Add docstring for each function