Indian Space Live - ISRO Satellite Tracker

How to use this tracker

1. Watch the map. Each coloured dot is one ISRO satellite. Marker colour = category (Earth observation, radar, ocean, weather, communication, NavIC, science). Positions update every 10 seconds.
2. Tap any dot to see the satellite’s name, what it does, its current latitude/longitude, and a link to its official ISRO mission page.
3. Check “Over India right now” just below the map - that list shows which low-Earth-orbit satellites are currently passing within the bounding box of India (roughly 6°N to 38°N, 67°E to 98°E).
4. Geostationary satellites stay still. INSAT-3DR, INSAT-3DS, GSAT comms, and most of NavIC are parked above the equator at about 36,000 km. Their dots barely move because they orbit at exactly Earth’s rotation rate.

What you’re actually seeing

The dots aren’t a video feed. There’s no live camera on the satellites broadcasting their positions. Instead, ISRO and the U.S. Space Force publish each satellite’s orbit as a small text record called a two-line element set (TLE). A TLE describes how a satellite is moving at one moment in time. Plug a TLE into a standard physics propagator (we use the open-source satellite.js library) and you can predict where that satellite is, second by second, for days afterwards.

This page does that math in your browser, every 10 seconds. The orbit data itself comes from CelesTrak, a respected public archive run by Dr T.S. Kelso. We cache each TLE in your browser for 6 hours so we don’t hammer their server, and we ship a snapshot with the page so it still works if CelesTrak is briefly unreachable.

About the satellites in this tracker

We picked 26 high-profile, currently active ISRO missions. The selection deliberately spans the full range of what India does in space:

• Earth observation: Cartosat-3, Cartosat-2E, Cartosat-2F, Resourcesat-2, Resourcesat-2A, EOS-08 - the “eyes” that map cities, farms, forests, and roads.
• Radar (SAR): NISAR (joint with NASA), RISAT-1, RISAT-2B, RISAT-2BR1, EOS-04 - they see through clouds and at night, critical during the monsoon and for disaster response.
• Ocean and atmosphere: EOS-06 (Oceansat-3), Oceansat-2, SCATSAT-1, SARAL - they track sea-surface winds, ocean colour, and sea-level rise. Without these, cyclone forecasts in the Bay of Bengal would be far less accurate.
• Weather (geostationary): INSAT-3DR and INSAT-3DS - the satellites behind every Indian TV weather forecast and IMD cyclone bulletin.
• Communication: GSAT-30, GSAT-7A, CMS-02 (GSAT-24), GSAT-N2 (GSAT-20) - direct-to-home TV, secure defence comms, in-flight broadband.
• NavIC navigation: IRNSS-1B, IRNSS-1C, IRNSS-1I, NVS-01 - India’s independent regional satellite-navigation system.
• Space science: Astrosat - India’s only space astronomy mission, observing X-ray and ultraviolet sky.

What about Aditya-L1 and Chandrayaan-3?

Two of India’s most famous recent missions are deliberately not on the live map, because they aren’t in Earth orbit:

• Aditya-L1 sits at the Sun-Earth L1 Lagrange point, about 1.5 million km from Earth. It’s in orbit around a balance point, not around Earth itself, so it has no Earth TLE. The standard satellite-tracking math doesn’t apply.
• Chandrayaan-3 landed near the lunar south pole in August 2023. Its lander and rover are on the Moon’s surface; the propulsion module was later moved into Earth orbit, but isn’t public-tracked. We could have invented coordinates for the visualisation - we chose not to.

Both missions appear in the “Beyond Earth orbit” cards near the bottom of the page so you still get the context.

Frequently asked questions

Is this the official ISRO tracker?

No. This is an independent free tool built by Space Universe. We are not affiliated with ISRO. ISRO does run several official portals - MOSDAC for meteorological / oceanographic satellite data, and Bhuvan for geo-spatial maps - and they’re excellent if you want raw imagery and downloadable products.

Why don’t I see all of ISRO’s satellites?

India has launched well over 100 satellites. Many are decommissioned, classified, retired into graveyard orbits, or simply too obscure for a consumer-friendly map. We curated 26 active, recognisable, civilian-and-civic-defence missions across all the major mission types. If you’d like a specific one added, get in touch.

How accurate is the live position?

For the geostationary satellites (INSAT, GSAT, most of NavIC), positions are accurate to within a few kilometres for months. For low-Earth-orbit satellites (Cartosat, RISAT, NISAR, EOS-08), TLEs lose accuracy over time - a few kilometres after a day, more after a week. We refresh from CelesTrak every 6 hours, so the worst-case error in this tracker is tens of kilometres for a fast LEO sat near the end of a refresh window. Good enough for “is it over India right now”; not good enough to schedule a satellite contact, for which you should use proper mission-control tools.

Does it work without internet?

Yes - once the page is loaded. We bundle a TLE snapshot with the page so the math works even if CelesTrak is unreachable. The snapshot drifts with time though, so positions will be most accurate when you have an internet connection and the live fetch from CelesTrak succeeds.

What data goes back to your servers?

Nothing about your location, your device, or your browsing on this page. We don’t ask for GPS. The page itself loads anonymous Google Analytics for total visitor counts, same as the rest of our site. Read our privacy policy for the long version.

What does “NavIC” stand for?

Navigation with Indian Constellation. It’s ISRO’s regional satellite navigation system, providing position, navigation, and timing across India and a 1,500 km buffer around it. Newer Indian smartphones (Xiaomi, Samsung, OnePlus, Realme, iQOO and others) include NavIC support natively.

Credit and licence

Orbital data: CelesTrak (public domain). Satellite descriptions: Space Universe, based on ISRO’s public mission pages (linked from each card). Map: Leaflet with OpenStreetMap base tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors. Position math: satellite.js. The selection, plain-language descriptions, and design are by Space Universe and are free to share.