Beacon — track flights, ships, and satellites

Beacon is a personal live tracker for the things moving over and around you — aircraft, ships, and satellites. Activate it in Personal Modules (Account → Modules) and open /me/beacon.

It has four tabs: Live, AR, Log, and Watchlist.

Live:
• Tap "Use my location" once (your position is only requested here, never on app load). A map centers on you and shows nearby flights, ships, and satellites. Toggle Flights / Ships / Space. The list below is sorted by distance — tap any target to see its call sign, altitude, speed, bearing, and range.

AR:
• Point your phone at the sky or horizon. Targets are drawn as labels at their real bearing and elevation, so you can find the plane or the ISS overhead by looking through your camera.

Log:
• Saw something cool? Add a photo and a note from a target's card and it's saved to your personal sightings — a private journal of what you've spotted.

Watchlist:
• Add a flight tail/callsign, a ship name or MMSI, or a satellite like "ISS" or its NORAD id. Whenever a watched target passes nearby, it gets a star marker on the Live and AR views.

How it works under the hood: flights come from a public ADS-B feed and ships from AIS (proxied through Turtini so no keys touch your browser); satellites are computed right on your device from orbital elements (SGP4), so they're accurate with no server round-trip. Any photos you log pass through the platform's image-moderation pipeline.