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Como Explorar ISS Orbit Tracker 3D Explorer - Passo a Passo


The ISS Orbit Tracker 3D Explorer starts as soon as the page loads: drag to orbit Earth, scroll or pinch to zoom, and press Play orbit to animate the station along the inclined path. Everything renders on your own device - no install, no account.


Open the scene

Load the page and Earth appears with a thin atmosphere shell and a blue inclined orbit ring. The 3D engine downloads once and is cached. If WebGL is unavailable, a plain notice appears instead of a broken canvas, and the facts panel still reads normally.


Play one orbit circuit

Press Play orbit to animate the ISS model along the path. At 1x one published 92.9-minute circuit is compressed on screen. Press again to pause on any point for a closer look at the ground track or the inclined ring.


Scrub orbit phase

Move the orbit-phase slider from 0 to 100 percent. The label updates on every move and the ISS jumps to that point along the ring. Scrubbing pauses playback automatically so you can inspect a single subsatellite position.


Toggle the ground track

Press Hide ground track to remove the yellow subsatellite line from Earth; press Show ground track to draw it again. Compare the surface path with the inclined orbit ring in space to see how a 51.64 deg orbit maps onto the globe.


See four steps in the ISS Orbit Tracker walkthrough: open the scene, play one orbit circuit, scrub orbit phase, then toggle the ground track.
Open scene, play orbit, scrub phase, toggle ground track.

Read the facts panel

The panel lists mean altitude 408 km, orbital period 92.9 min, orbital speed 7.66 km/s, inclination 51.64 deg, and 15.5 orbits per day - NASA published values. A note below states that Earth and orbit sizes are compressed; the table numbers are real.

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