Free widgets for your site

Paste one of these into an article and you get live satellite data that keeps itself current. No key, no sign-up, no tracking of your readers. Keep the line of attribution that comes with the snippet, and the terms on our licence page apply here as they do to any other reuse, including the credit the upstream sources ask for. This page does not set easier terms than that one.

Live satellite globe

Every active satellite, moving, worked out in the reader’s browser. Clicking a dot opens that satellite’s record in a new tab rather than hijacking your page.

The snippet

<div style="position:relative;width:100%;padding-top:calc(62.5% + 6px)">
  <iframe
    src="https://www.orbitalwiki.com/embed/globe"
    loading="lazy"
    style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0"
    title="Live satellite globe by OrbitalWiki"
  ></iframe>
</div>
<p style="font:12px system-ui,sans-serif;margin:6px 0 0">
  <a href="https://www.orbitalwiki.com/">Data: OrbitalWiki</a>
</p>

Snippets for a single constellation

Starlink only

<div style="position:relative;width:100%;padding-top:calc(62.5% + 6px)">
  <iframe
    src="https://www.orbitalwiki.com/embed/globe?constellation=starlink"
    loading="lazy"
    style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0"
    title="Live satellite globe by OrbitalWiki"
  ></iframe>
</div>
<p style="font:12px system-ui,sans-serif;margin:6px 0 0">
  <a href="https://www.orbitalwiki.com/">Data: OrbitalWiki</a>
</p>

OneWeb only

<div style="position:relative;width:100%;padding-top:calc(62.5% + 6px)">
  <iframe
    src="https://www.orbitalwiki.com/embed/globe?constellation=oneweb"
    loading="lazy"
    style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0"
    title="Live satellite globe by OrbitalWiki"
  ></iframe>
</div>
<p style="font:12px system-ui,sans-serif;margin:6px 0 0">
  <a href="https://www.orbitalwiki.com/">Data: OrbitalWiki</a>
</p>

Iridium only

<div style="position:relative;width:100%;padding-top:calc(62.5% + 6px)">
  <iframe
    src="https://www.orbitalwiki.com/embed/globe?constellation=iridium"
    loading="lazy"
    style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0"
    title="Live satellite globe by OrbitalWiki"
  ></iframe>
</div>
<p style="font:12px system-ui,sans-serif;margin:6px 0 0">
  <a href="https://www.orbitalwiki.com/">Data: OrbitalWiki</a>
</p>

Live count badge

One number, current, with the date it was counted. Small enough for a sidebar or the end of an article.

The snippet

<iframe
  src="https://www.orbitalwiki.com/embed/count"
  width="100%"
  height="140"
  loading="lazy"
  style="border:0;max-width:100%"
  title="Live count badge by OrbitalWiki"
></iframe>
<p style="font:12px system-ui,sans-serif;margin:6px 0 0">
  <a href="https://www.orbitalwiki.com/">Data: OrbitalWiki</a>
</p>

About that line of attribution

It sits outside the iframe on purpose, as a plain link in your page. A link inside an iframe is invisible to search engines, so it would cost you a line of markup and earn us nothing, which would make this a favour rather than a trade. Please leave it as it is rather than restyling it away, and please do not change the words: a widget that pushes keyword-stuffed anchor text across the web is a link scheme, and we would rather not build one.

Need it without attribution, or inside a commercial product? Email us and tell us what you are building. There is no price list yet, which is honest rather than coy: nobody has asked, and we would rather hear the first few cases before inventing one. One limit on that offer: we can drop our own line, but the upstream sources set their own conditions and those are not ours to waive.

The fine print, which is short

Nothing about your readers is tracked. The widget sets no cookie and stores nothing in their browser.
The globe works out positions in the reader’s own browser from published orbital elements. Those are typically a day or two old at the source; we refetch them every six hours. Approximate, and not for operational use.
The data is under our licence, and the upstream sources keep their own terms.
If a widget breaks or disappears, it will be announced on the changelog like any other change.

Widgets are served from https://www.orbitalwiki.com/embed/. Open one on its own: globe · count.