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Open Notify
Track the International Space Station with Open Notify, the free keyless API behind open-notify.org.
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Actions
Steps a workflow can run in Open Notify.
- Get the ISS positionGet where the International Space Station is right now: the latitude and longitude of the point on the ground directly below it, the instant that position is for, and a map link to open it. The station covers about 28,000 km every hour, so the answer is only good for a few seconds. No API key required.
- Get the people in spaceGet who is in space right now, with the spacecraft each person is aboard and a count per craft, so a step can say how many are on the station without counting a list itself. Name a spacecraft to get only its crew. Nobody aboard is an empty result rather than a failed step. No API key required.
- Get the distance to the ISSAnswer 'is the space station near me?' for a place on the ground: how far away it is in kilometres and miles, which compass direction to look in, and whether it is above the horizon there at all. Open Notify reports only where the station is, never how that relates to anywhere, so the comparison is done here. No API key required.
- Sample the ISS trackWatch the station move: take several positions a few seconds apart and get the path between them, how far it travelled and how fast. Open Notify only ever answers for the present instant, so this step waits between readings at the cadence the service asks for, which is why it takes as long as it does. No API key required.
- Get a space reportGet both halves of what Open Notify knows in one step: where the station is, how many people are in space, who they are and which of them are aboard the ISS. Built for a daily post or digest, where two separate steps would describe two different moments. No API key required.
- Check service statusCheck whether Open Notify is answering, and how quickly. This is the one action that reports a problem as a value instead of failing the step, so a workflow can decide what to do about it. Being asked to slow down is reported separately from being down. No API key required.
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