1.7 m · your eyes
Everything above you, labeled.
Point your phone at the sky. Upglass names the planes, satellites, space junk, planets and deep-space probes that are really there, right where they are.
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10.7 km · cruising altitude
The flight overhead
Live aircraft within about 50 nautical miles: callsign, aircraft type, altitude, speed, and where it's flying from and to.
420 km · low Earth orbit
The International Space Station
Hold it in the reticle for a few seconds and its card opens: who's aboard, how fast it's going, and the next time it'll cross your sky bright enough to see.
550 km · the Starlink shell
11,151 Starlinks
More than half of everything tracked in orbit. Freshly launched trains look like a string of pearls. Hide them with one switch when they crowd the view.
850 km · debris cloud
The junk, too
In 2007 a missile destroyed the Fengyun-1C weather satellite and left thousands of fragments circling Earth. Upglass shows tracked debris from it and other breakups: 2,679 pieces in the current catalog.
20,200 km · navigation orbit
The satellites that tell your phone where it is
GPS, Galileo, GLONASS and BeiDou: 175 navigation satellites, each circling twice a day.
35,786 km · geostationary belt
A ring that never moves
Up here an orbit takes exactly one day, so 446 communications satellites hang in a fixed arc across your southern sky.
384,400 km · the Moon
Line it up with the Moon
Phone compasses drift. Tap the real Moon or a bright planet and Upglass snaps the whole sky into place, and remembers the correction.
1.5 million km · Sun–Earth L2
Webb, on the far side of the night
The James Webb Space Telescope sits beyond the Moon, opposite the Sun. Upglass places it, along with 14 other deep-space probes, from JPL's own ephemerides.
≈640 million km · Jupiter
Planets, and who's orbiting them
Every planet, its brightness tonight, and the spacecraft working there now. Juno is at Jupiter. Europa Clipper and JUICE are on the way.
Interstellar space · Voyager 1
The farthest thing we ever made
Voyager 1 is 25.8 billion km away right now, and 36 km farther every second. Its signal takes almost a full day to reach us. Upglass points straight at it.
Made for looking up
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Hold to learn
Keep anything in the reticle and its card opens on its own. What it is, who runs it, how high, how fast, how far.
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Know when to look
Satellites shine only when sunlight catches them against a dark sky. Upglass lists the passes you'll actually see.
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Find anything
Search by name or catalog number, or jump to the ISS, Tiangong or Hubble. An arrow points the way, even below the horizon.
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Layers
Satellites, debris, Starlink and aircraft, each on its own switch, so a busy sky stays readable.
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Computed, not guessed
Orbits are propagated on your device with the same SGP4 model mission planners use, from elements refreshed every four hours.
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Works in daylight
Nothing is detected by the camera, so labels sit where everything is even behind clouds, a ceiling, or a blue sky.
No phone to hold
On a headset the labels sit on the sky around you. Look at something for a moment and its card floats into view.
Android XR
Spatial labels over passthrough, gaze to select, and the same layers and search as the phone app.
Apple Vision Pro
An immersive sky around you, with cards that open where you're looking.
Headset versions are in development. Headsets have no compass, so you line them up once on the Sun, the Moon or a bright planet.
Your sky, not your data
- No account, no ads, no analytics.
- The camera image never leaves your phone. Frames are shown, then discarded.
- Your location stays on your device, except a request rounded to about 1 km for nearby aircraft. Turn off the aircraft layer and nothing is sent.
Coming soon
Upglass launches on Android, Android XR and Apple Vision Pro.
- Coming soon on Google Play
- Coming soon on the App Store