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title: 'Real-Time Map'
url: 'http://www.mlat.uk/real-time-map'
markdown: 'http://www.mlat.uk/real-time-map.md'
date: '2026-10-23'
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# Real-Time Map

## Live Air, Maritime and Space ***Traffic Map.***

✈️ Air⚓ Maritime🛰️ Space

Follow aircraft, vessels and orbiting satellites in real time. Select any object to see its details, photo, track history and route, or use the controls below to filter the picture.

[View full screen](https://map.mlat.uk)

## Using the Map Controls

The buttons along the top and side of the map change what you see and how it behaves.

### Top bar

![Aircraft](https://map.mlat.uk/images/adsb-white.svg)Show or hide air traffic

![Marine](https://map.mlat.uk/images/ais-white.svg)Show or hide maritime traffic

![Satellite](https://map.mlat.uk/images/satellite-white.svg)Show or hide space traffic

UShow only military, law enforcement and search & rescue traffic

EShow only aircraft or vessels broadcasting an emergency. Flashes red for an emergency and amber for an alert

HHome: reset the map to the default view

TToggle tracks on or off

🖻Select map layers

### Side bar

<Show or hide the sidebar

![Settings](https://map.mlat.uk/images/cog-white.svg)Open map settings

LToggle labels on or off

OToggle label extensions, adding extra detail to aircraft and satellite labels

KToggle track labels on or off

MToggle multiselect for aircraft, vessels and satellites

PPersistence mode: keep the selected object highlighted

IIsolate the selected aircraft, vessel or satellite, hiding all others

RFollow a random aircraft, vessel or satellite

FFollow the selected aircraft, vessel or satellite. Switches on automatically when you select something; panning the map switches it off, and F re-centres

![Replay](https://map.mlat.uk/images/replay-white.svg)Replay recorded aircraft movements. Live vessels and satellites pause while a replay runs and resume when it closes

?Display About

## Selecting an Object

Click or tap any aircraft, vessel or satellite to open its details. The map follows it automatically, keeping it centred in the part of the map that is still visible.

### On a computer

Details open in the sidebar on the left: the country flag and identity at the top, then a photo, type, position, speed and track. The map centres the selection in the space beside the sidebar.

### On a phone

Details slide up from the bottom of the screen. The header always shows the flag, identity, key facts and, where known, the route or destination, for example *Newcastle → Paris*. Drag the header up for the full details or down to see more map. Tap something on the map and it opens minimised; pick it from the table or a search and it opens half way. Once you drag it, it remembers your choice. Pinch or double-tap to zoom.

### Photos

Aircraft photos come from community photo sites and are credited to each photographer. Vessel and satellite images come from open sources such as Wikimedia Commons. Where no photo exists, an outline of the object type is shown instead.

## Satellite Details

Selecting a satellite shows its category (space station, visually bright, military and others), its owner's flag, live altitude and speed, and its catalogue record: object type, operational status, launch date and site, international designator and radar cross-section.

### Orbit

A one-line summary of the whole orbit, for example *LEO · 413 × 420 km · 51.6° · 92.9 min*: orbit class, lowest and highest altitude (perigee × apogee), inclination and period, worked out from the current orbital elements.

### Orbit class

Low Earth Orbit, Medium Earth Orbit, Geostationary, Geosynchronous, Highly Elliptical or High Earth Orbit. The class describes the whole orbit, so a satellite on a long elliptical path keeps one label all the way round.

### TLE age

How old the orbital elements behind the plotted position are. Positions drift as elements age, so anything over seven days old is flagged as stale. Objects docked to another, such as visiting craft at a space station, are marked *Docked*.

Telemetry provided by a network of volunteer contributors, augmented with data from public sources. [Data: AISHub contributors](https://www.aishub.net), [airplanes.live](https://airplanes.live), [CelesTrak](https://celestrak.org). For personal, non-commercial situational awareness only, supplied “as-is” without warranty. No scraping, resale or redistribution of the data or service. [Privacy Policy](https://www.mlat.uk/privacy).

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## Navigation

- Previous: [Home](http://www.mlat.uk/index.md)
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