# SYNTHORA ISS Live Orbital Position

> SYNTHORA ISS Live Orbital Position is a paid API for AI agents from iss-live-position.hergertsynthora.com, paid per call via x402, $0.02/call, status down (last checked 2026-09-13).

Returns the International Space Station's real-time latitude, longitude, and UTC timestamp by proxying the Open Notify API, requiring no API key.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://iss-live-position.hergertsynthora.com/service
- Price: $0.02/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: down
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/synthora-iss-live-orbital-position-2ad9227b
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_Ng10ufvc3D9VqDh5g36pm

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability synthora-iss-live-orbital-position-2ad9227b -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Where is the International Space Station right now? Give me its current latitude, longitude, and the exact UTC time of the reading.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a keyless, pay-per-call ISS position lookup with no API account setup, especially useful for agent pipelines, educational tools, or ham-radio pass-prediction workflows that need real-time ISS coordinates on demand without managing upstream API credentials.

## Known failure modes

- Open Notify upstream API unavailable — service may return an error or stale data
- Network timeout if the upstream API is slow to respond
- Payment failure if x402 USDC microtransaction is not processed correctly
- Malformed response if the upstream API changes its schema

## How this service works

Returns the International Space Station's real-time latitude, longitude and UTC timestamp from the Open Notify API, keyless. Autonomous satellite-tracking, ham-radio, education and orbital-mechanics agents consume it for A2A live tracking and agent-to-agent pass-prediction pipelines. Ranking surface: ISS location API, space station tracker, live orbit, satellite position, open-notify.

## Output

A JSON object containing a boolean 'ok' status, the niche identifier 'iss-live-position', and a 'result' object with the ISS's current latitude (decimal degrees), longitude (decimal degrees), and a Unix UTC timestamp. Also includes provenance showing the upstream Open Notify source URL.

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "ok": true,
  "niche": "iss-live-position",
  "result": {
   "latitude": 8.4499,
   "longitude": 54.386,
   "timestamp": 1783776484
  },
  "provenance": {
   "url": "http://api.open-notify.org/iss-now.json",
   "source": "ISS Live Orbital Position"
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/synthora-iss-live-orbital-position-2ad9227b/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from iss-live-position.hergertsynthora.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/iss-live-position.hergertsynthora.com/llms.txt)