KUON LIVE
Earth, from orbit, now
Live video from 400 km up. The whole Earth, every ten minutes, from 36,000 km. A page for watching the planet as it is, right now.
International Space Station, live
Cameras mounted outside the International Space Station. When it passes out of contact, the picture pauses for a few minutes. That too is real.
Where the station is right now
Computed in your browser from the published orbital elements. The dot is the point beneath the station; the line is its next 45 minutes.
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From 36,000 km, the latest frames
Five viewpoints above the equator, covering every longitude of the Earth. Each frame carries its capture time. Nothing is enhanced.
出典：気象庁ホームページ
出典：気象庁ホームページ
NOAA / NESDIS / STAR
NOAA / NESDIS / STAR
This service is based on EUMETSAT Meteosat data 2026 · shown 3.5 hours after sensing, by design
This service is based on EUMETSAT Meteosat data 2026 · shown 3.5 hours after sensing, by design
How this page works, and sources
Frames refresh on their own: Himawari every 10 minutes, GOES every 10 minutes. The time shown is the start of the scan, in your local time.
Every frame shown here has also been kept since 24 August 2026, at the ten-minute step, so that a season of sky can later be replayed as one film. The count lives on the archive page.
What no satellite can show
- A chosen point on Earth, live, at a resolution where people or cars are visible. Satellites that see that well fly low and pass over a spot for a few minutes a few times a day.
- A geostationary view sharper than about 500 m per pixel. At 36,000 km the camera cannot resolve buildings.
- A view of the station's own choosing. The ISS cameras point where they are mounted; you cannot steer them.
What you are actually seeing
- ISS video: live, delayed only by the relay path and the streaming service, from 400 km up, one orbit every 93 minutes.
- Himawari-9: infrared at 2 km per pixel works through the night; true colour shows only the sunlit side.
- GOES GeoColor: a daytime true colour composite; at night it switches to an infrared rendering with city lights from a static layer, which NOAA labels as such.
Sources and terms
- ISS video: NASA (youtube.com/@NASA) and Sen (youtube.com/@Sen), embedded with the standard YouTube player. Embedding is enabled by both channels (checked 2026-08-23).
- Himawari-9 tiles: Japan Meteorological Agency, reproduced under the JMA terms of use (public data licence v1.0). Source: 気象庁ホームページ (https://www.jma.go.jp/bosai/map.html#contents=himawari).
- GOES imagery: NOAA / NESDIS Center for Satellite Applications and Research (STAR). Credit given as required.
- Station position: orbital elements (OMM) via CelesTrak, propagated in your browser with SGP4.
- Meteosat imagery: shown hourly, 3.5 hours after sensing. Under the EUMETSAT data policy, hourly imagery is not subject to licensing, and imagery with a latency of one hour or more is licensed for any purpose with attribution. This service is based on EUMETSAT Meteosat data 2026.