ISS Live Position
Live position of the International Space Station: latitude, longitude, altitude, orbital velocity and whether it's currently in daylight — fetched the moment you call. A genuinely live fact no model can know, ideal for demos and tracking automations.
Worked examples
Position right now
GET /api/v1/live/iss-position?
Result: ISS: 41.69°N, 165.34°W · 428 km altitude · 27,567 km/h
Machine API (x402)
$0.02 / callThis tool is also a JSON API for AI agents. Requests without payment receive 402 Payment Required plus instructions; agents pay USDC on Base via the x402 protocol — no accounts, no API keys.
GET /api/v1/live/iss-position? HTTP/1.1
Host: agentstoolshub.com
→ 402 (payment required, instructions in headers)
→ 200 (after X-PAYMENT header; JSON body below)
{
"tool": "live/iss-position",
"input": {},
"result": { "value": 41.694237001589, "answer": "ISS: 41.66°N, 165.27°W · 428 km altitude · 27,567 km/h" }
}Agent docs: /llms.txt · OpenAPI spec · integration guide
About this tool
The International Space Station's position at the exact moment of the call: coordinates, altitude (~420 km), orbital velocity (~27,600 km/h) and day/night status, straight from the wheretheiss.at tracking API with zero caching. The canonical 'prove you're live' call.
Frequently asked questions
How often does the ISS orbit?
Every ~93 minutes at 7.66 km/s. The position you get is already thousands of kilometers from where an LLM would have guessed.
What does 'visibility' mean?
Whether the station is in sunlight or Earth's shadow at that moment — daylight matters if you're trying to spot it from the ground.