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Where is the ISS right now?

Its position every few seconds, the path it just flew and the one ahead, over a map of where it is day and night on Earth.

World map with the International Space Station's position
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Sixteen sunrises a day. At about 28,000 km/h, the station circles Earth in roughly an hour and a half, so its crew sees around sixteen sunrises and sunsets every day.

Why the path waves. The orbit is tilted 51.6° to the equator, and Earth turns underneath it, so each lap crosses the map about 23° further west than the last.

Seeing it yourself. It shows up as a bright, steady point that crosses the sky in a few minutes, in the dark shortly after sunset or before sunrise, when the station is still in sunlight.