Loading page
Live tracking for thousands of satellites, with pass predictions for your postcode and a map of everything above you right now.
Opens in a new tab. We do not control this site and it may have changed since we catalogued it.
N2YO sits in Flight & Ship Tracking under Wander, filed as coffee break.
About this category: Aircraft, cargo ships, trains and satellites moving live on a map. Startling the first time you realise how much is in the air at once.
Yes. N2YO is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use N2YO without signing up for anything.
Not well. We file N2YO as desktop only, so open it on a laptop or desktop computer.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "Coffee break": Five to fifteen minutes of proper attention.
A research-grade open flight tracking network run by universities, with live maps and the raw historical data behind them.
Live flight tracking with an augmented-reality view, for pointing a phone at whatever just went over the garden and naming it.
Every train on the British network with the signalling data attached: which loop it was held in, where it lost four minutes and why.
Ship positions and port arrivals on a fast, uncluttered map, ideal for watching a delivery of your own crawl across an ocean.
Type a surname and get where it came from, what it originally meant and where in the world it still clusters.
Active fire and thermal anomaly detections from NASA satellites, updated within hours of each pass and quietly sobering at continental zoom.
The full NASA satellite archive as daily global mosaics, with a date slider you can drag back two decades to watch ice, dust and smoke move.
The searchable index of American federal records, running from founding documents to recently declassified memos.
Have a site of your own? Suggest it for Detour or browse the AltFTool backlinks hub.