How to hit the Where the ISS At API

Where the ISS At at https://api.wheretheiss.at/v1 returns the ISS's current position, altitude, and speed. 25544 is the station's NORAD catalog id.

Authentication

None — no key, no signup. Every example runs as-is.

Full reference: https://wheretheiss.at/w/developer

Where is the ISS now

curl https://api.wheretheiss.at/v1/satellites/25544
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Example response (trimmed) 
{
  "name": "iss",
  "id": 25544,
  "latitude": 10.515970440978,
  "longitude": -141.78505927576,
  "altitude": 421.92686500192,
  "velocity": 27570.89268079,
  "visibility": "daylight",
  "footprint": 4517.2535221631,
  "timestamp": 1790198176,
  "daynum": 2461307.3862963,
  "solar_lat": -0.34048098780848,
  "solar_lon": 218.98775900256,
  "units": "kilometers"
}

Positions at given times

Unix timestamps, comma-separated.

curl "https://api.wheretheiss.at/v1/satellites/25544/positions?timestamps=1767225600,1767229200"
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Example response (trimmed) 
[
  {
    "name": "iss",
    "id": 25544,
    "latitude": -51.666359891465,
    "longitude": -148.91997571164,
    "altitude": 434.79290555688,
    "velocity": 27547.745174469,
    "visibility": "daylight",
    "footprint": 4581.9701964168,
    "timestamp": 1767225600,
    "daynum": 2461041.5,
    "solar_lat": -23.017751321008,
    "solar_lon": 180.83219049279,
    "units": "kilometers"
  },
  {
    "name": "iss",
    "id": 25544,
    "latitude": 30.885232481294,
    "longitude": 83.097636636889,
    "altitude": 426.43291250839,
    "velocity": 27565.014881324,
    "visibility": "daylight",
    "footprint": 4540.0474960377,
    "timestamp": 1767229200,
    "daynum": 2461041.5416667,
    "solar_lat": -23.014378927962,
    "solar_lon": 165.83711681027,
    "units": "kilometers"
  }
]