FLAGSHIP OBSERVATORIES

NASA / ESA · LOW EARTH ORBIT

Where is Hubble now?

SCIENCE OPERATIONS · EARTH ORBIT CONNECTING TO JPL HORIZONS
CAMERAOVERVIEW · 100%
REFERENCE FRAME

Earth-centered view · orbital distances are compressed for clarity.

LAUNCH · APR 24 1990 CURRENT ORBIT · LIVE 36 YEARS OF DISCOVERY

A CLEAN-ROOM PUBLIC DATA EXPERIENCE

Three observatories.
One expanding view.

Hubble, Webb, and Roman are the flagship missions operated or supported by the Space Telescope Science Institute. This original visualization combines public mission facts with current-epoch JPL Horizons ephemerides when available.

●LIVE EPHEMERISCurrent vector returned by JPL Horizons
◇OFFICIAL REFERENCEPublished NASA or STScI mission value

SPACECRAFT VISUALS Hubble and Webb are isolated from official NASA mission renders; Roman uses NASA Goddard Scientific Visualization Studio’s transparent spacecraft view. Hardware imagery is composited over the live reference-frame visualization.

ROMAN POSITION METHOD Roman’s normal marker is projected from its Earth-centered JPL ICRF vector against the matching Sun–Earth L2 vector. Hovering Roman reveals the future L2 halo as a destination—not its current position. Horizons spacecraft trajectories combine fitted tracking history with predictions and are not a live GPS feed.

SOLAR NEIGHBORHOOD + EARTH Sun, Moon, Mars, and observatory directions use current-epoch Earth-centered JPL Horizons vectors. Radial distance is logarithmically compressed and sizes are illustrative. Earth imagery is the latest available NASA/NOAA DSCOVR EPIC full-disk capture, shown with its actual capture time and a procedural fallback.

This is an educational visualization, not navigation-grade tracking. Scales are intentionally compressed and no affiliation with NASA, JPL, ESA, or STScI is implied.