OSIRIS – Live OSINT Globe: Flights, Satellites, Ships and Recon Tools

OSIRIS is a free, open-source dashboard that puts the world's live public data on one spinning 3D globe: flights, satellites, ships, earthquakes, wildfires, public cameras, and breaking news, all updating in real time, all in your browser. Its full name is Open Source Intelligence & Reconnaissance Integrated System, and in early October 2026 it spread fast across GitHub and social media, with people calling it a free, open alternative to the kind of situational-awareness software Palantir sells to governments.

That comparison gives you the shape of it, but keep your expectations honest. OSIRIS does not know anything secret. It collects feeds that are already public, draws them on a map, and adds a set of browser-based recon tools so you can look things up yourself. The value is that twenty-odd live feeds sit in one place instead of twenty browser tabs. If that sounds useful, you can open the live version right away — there is nothing to install, which we cover on the download and access page.

Quick facts

• Full name: Open Source Intelligence & Reconnaissance Integrated System (OSIRIS)
• Official live demo: osirisai.live
• Source code: GitHub, at github.com/simplifaisoul/osiris
• License: MIT — free to use, copy, and modify
• Cost: Free, no account needed; the project is supported through Patreon, Ko-fi, and merch
• Built with: Next.js 16, MapLibre GL, and WebGL for the 3D globe
• Popularity: Thousands of stars on GitHub — over 6,000 and climbing after its viral moment in October 2026
• What it tracks: 20+ live public feeds including 10,000+ aircraft and around 2,000 satellites

What OSIRIS tracks on the globe

The globe is the heart of the project. Layers stack on top of each other, and you can switch each one on or off depending on what you care about.

Flights. More than 10,000 aircraft in the air at any moment, plotted live. Click one and you get its route and basic flight details, the same kind of data flight-tracking sites publish.

Satellites. Around 2,000 satellites moving in real orbits above the map. It is a good way to see how crowded low Earth orbit actually is.

Ships and maritime traffic. Vessels broadcast their positions publicly, and OSIRIS plots them, so busy shipping lanes and ports light up.

Earthquakes and wildfires. Seismic events and active fire detections appear as they are reported by public monitoring services. Journalists and curious readers use layers like these to check what is happening near a place in the news.

Conflict zones and world events. Reported incidents and hotspots are marked on the map, next to a 24/7 news feed, so you can see where a story is happening instead of just reading about it.

Public CCTV. A layer of publicly accessible cameras around the world. These are cameras whose feeds are already open on the public internet — traffic cameras and similar — gathered into one view.

Weather, cyber threats, nuclear facilities, and markets. Storm systems, threat-intelligence indicators, the locations of nuclear sites, and market data round out the feed list. None of this is classified. It is public data, presented well.

We break down the most-used layers in more detail in our post on how the live flight and satellite tracking works.

The RECON tools

The second half of OSIRIS is a toolbox labelled RECON. These are lookups that run from your browser:

• Nmap-style port scans — check which ports answer on a host
• DNS lookups — see the records behind a domain name
• WHOIS — find registration details for a domain
• SSL analysis — inspect a site's certificate and its expiry

Tools like these are standard kit for system administrators, students, and security researchers checking their own systems. Run them on networks and sites you own or have permission to test. Scanning other people's systems without permission can break the law where you live, and no tool changes that. Our guide to using the RECON tools responsibly walks through each one.

How OSIRIS works

There is no magic here, and that is the point. Public bodies and communities publish live data every day: aviation networks share aircraft positions, space agencies publish satellite orbits, geological surveys publish quakes, and so on. OSIRIS pulls those feeds together, normalises them, and renders them on a WebGL globe built with MapLibre GL inside a Next.js 16 app. When people call it an "AI dashboard," the honest version is this: the heavy lifting is data aggregation and mapping, with some AI-assisted analysis layered on top to help summarise and sort what the feeds produce.

Because the code is open under the MIT license, anyone can read it, check what it does, self-host a copy, or build on it. That openness is exactly why it travelled so fast — you do not have to trust a sales pitch, you can read the repository.

Who made it

OSIRIS is an independent open-source project published on GitHub under the simplifaisoul account. It is not a company product and it is not backed by a defence contractor. Development is funded the usual open-source way: small donations through Patreon and Ko-fi, plus merch. If you use it a lot, that is how you chip in.

One thing to know: the repository also promotes a crypto token called $OSIRIS. That is separate from the software itself. The dashboard is free and works without any token. If you ever look at the token side, treat it like any small crypto asset — verify the contract address independently, for example on Solscan, and never act on hype alone.

Limits and honest notes

A few things OSIRIS is not:

• It is not an AI that knows everything. It shows public feeds. If a feed is delayed, patchy, or wrong, the map shows that too.
• It has no secret or classified data. Everything on it was already public somewhere else.
• Coverage varies. Flight and camera coverage is dense in some regions and thin in others, because the underlying public feeds vary.
• It is not the other Osirises. osirisai.com is a drone operating system, Osiris HK works on AI hydroponic farming, and osirisinc.com builds AI tools for medical affairs teams. Same name, different projects. This page is only about the open-source OSINT platform.

Frequently asked questions

Is OSIRIS free?
Yes. The live demo at osirisai.live is free, needs no account, and the source code is MIT-licensed on GitHub.

Do I need to install anything?
No. It runs in the browser. Developers who want their own copy can self-host from the GitHub repository.

Is OSIRIS really like Palantir?
In look and layout, a bit — a live map with layered data. In data, no. Palantir's customers plug in private and government data. OSIRIS only uses public feeds.

Is it legal to use?
Watching the public feeds is fine. The RECON tools should only be pointed at systems you own or have permission to test.

Where do I try it?
The access page links you to the official live demo and the GitHub repository.

OSIRIS is a neat example of how much of the world is already broadcasting itself in public. Flights, ships, satellites, and sensors publish their positions every minute of the day. This project simply draws the map. Open it during the next big news story and you will see why it caught on — and read our about page if you want to know why we built this little guide around it.