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Show HN: Real-time Solar System with 526k asteroids and all tracked satellites

https://space.bl2.net/
19•wanick•2h ago

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jairofdez•2h ago
great project!!!!
java-man•1h ago
Super! Not easy to select or center on a planet though.
wanick•1h ago
Author here. It's a browser view of the Solar System at real scale, with its current state, plus the objects around Earth from the CelesTrak catalog.

Data: CelesTrak TLEs (SGP4), asteroids and comets from JPL SBDB, spacecraft positions from JPL Horizons. Updated daily.

Rendering is WebGL2, orbit propagation runs in web workers. The asteroid set (~30 MB) loads in the background.

The time slider runs forwards and backwards; satellites appear and disappear by launch date.

eutropia•35m ago
What's with those giant blobs of asteroids offset in jupiter's orbit by like 60deg on either side?
dvh•21m ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_(celestial_body)
einpoklum•19m ago
Wow, speedy and convenient! Well done!

Some insights:

* There is sooo much space debris! Dead sattelites and rocket bodies

* Starlink put up a hell of lot of satellites, too.

* There is a pretty dense sphere of items around the earth at geo-stationary orbit, a bit like a mantle; but most of all in a circle on that sphere.

VladDanGeorgesc•11m ago
Very interesting!

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Show HN: Real-time Solar System with 526k asteroids and all tracked satellites

https://space.bl2.net/
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