The Hubble Space Telescope (HST, NORAD 20580) orbits about 515 km above Earth, and this page shows where it is right now. The live Hubble tracker updates every second with the telescope's latitude, longitude, altitude, velocity and the region it is passing over, calculated from NORAD two-line element (TLE) orbital data using the SGP4 model.
Hubble is a large optical space telescope operated jointly by NASA and the European Space Agency, launched in April 1990 and still returning science data. It flies a near-circular low Earth orbit inclined 28.5° to the equator and completes one lap roughly every 95 minutes — about 15 orbits per day. Positions on this page are estimates from orbital propagation, not live telemetry from the spacecraft.
The live tracker on this page gives Hubble's current latitude and longitude — the point on Earth directly below the telescope — alongside its altitude (about 515 km) and velocity (roughly 7.6 km/s, about 27,000 km/h). The position updates every second and is propagated from the current CelesTrak/NORAD orbital elements for catalog number 20580.
Hubble orbits near 515 km today, down from about 615 km at launch in 1990. It has no engines of its own, so it cannot reboost — every altitude increase it ever received came from a visiting Space Shuttle, and none have been possible since 2009. Residual atmospheric drag lowers it slowly and continuously. At 7.6 km/s it covers several degrees of longitude a minute, so the live coordinates change while you watch.
Hubble is a fainter target than the ISS, around magnitude +2 to +3 — roughly as bright as an average star. A pass is only visible when Hubble is above your horizon, sunlit, and your sky is dark. Its 28.5° orbital inclination keeps the ground track within 28.5° of the equator, so it climbs higher in the sky the closer you are to the equator. This page computes visible passes for your location over the next 48 hours; when none are listed, it says so rather than guessing.
Each 95-minute orbit crosses the equator further west as Earth rotates underneath, so the ground track drifts steadily westward rather than repeating. The 3D globe view shows the full orbital path in space.
Yes. Hubble remains operational and is still returning science data. NASA moved it to one-gyroscope operations in 2024 after hardware degradation, which slightly slows how fast it can slew between targets but preserves most of its observing capability. NASA expects science operations to continue into the 2030s.