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I was expecting the earth to be moving out of the windows, displaying what the ISS is passing over, albeit not real time.

I think that's possible - you can get current location of ISS and use that to grab images from Google, distort in the right way and display. Maybe a nice evenings project with my space-crazy 7 year old daughter..

Also, I thought the "Cupola" label you see when the page opens was highlighting a place called that on the ground below :)

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A public HD livestream would be world changing. Right now access to real time, high resolution satellite imagery is still restricted to large organizations. Only some rocket launches have some views from above.

Yep agreed about the livestream.

I meant just an accurate projection onto the windows of existing Google Maps data based on the location of the ISS.

Even if that weren't possible, there are some nice high resolution textures of the earth (Blue Marble??) that could perhaps be made to work.

https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/ESRS/HDEV/

Oh my goodness! Is that really live - that's amazing and beautiful..

Wow, never realised it existed. It moves fast!

You can also ping this every second/few seconds.

http://api.open-notify.org/iss-now.json

Or my personal favorite, who’s in space right now:

http://api.open-notify.org/astros.json

To save you from googling, it's these 3 people:

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Saint-Jacques

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ypiWwh_JEY

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_McClain

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iZhMOsc6nQ

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleg_Kononenko

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrQQgc9z6Bs

Thanks for the links, this picture [1] stunned me a little. Have to say I am a little jealous of all the people who have managed to get that level of direct experience.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleg_Kononenko#/media/File:ISS...

It is rather easy to get access to real-time satellite imagery. I use it daily.

https://scihub.copernicus.eu/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBG3dHuzlbM

I've it running continuously on an Ipad Pro 12.9 in my living room.

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