Overhead

Overhead

About this site

Everything above us, tracked in real time — here's what that means and how it works.

What Overhead is

Overhead is a single home base for two things worth looking up for: what's happening in space, and what's happening in the sky. Astronautics covers space agency and mission news, upcoming launches, meteor showers, eclipses, the ISS, and a real-time night sky map. Aviation covers airline and aircraft news, airshows, aviation history, and a live flight radar sourced from a public ADS-B feed. There's no account and no tracking beyond what's needed to show you what's above your own location — nearly everything runs directly in your browser. The one exception is a small serverless function that relays Flight Radar's aircraft lookups to their data provider; it doesn't store anything.

Data sources & open-source libraries

Overhead aggregates and visualizes data from the following public sources. All trademarks and article content belong to their respective owners; Overhead links out to the original source for every article and does not claim ownership of third-party content.

News & events

Maps & sky data

  • adsb.lol — public ADS-B flight tracking feed, called through a same-origin proxy function rather than directly from the browser
  • Astronomy Engine — Sun, Moon, and planet positions
  • d3-celestial — star and constellation catalog
  • Leaflet — flight radar map rendering
  • three.js — 3D rocket & aircraft simulators
  • BigDataCloud — reverse geocoding for location labels

Get in touch

Found a bug, or have feedback? This project doesn't run a support inbox yet — for now, see the Privacy page for details on what data is collected and why.