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Show HN: Orbit – AR satellite tracker, watch 15k+ objects

88 points by lukas9

by bagels

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Awesome. This is a side project I never got around to making myself. For all the questions of "How do you know where the satellites are", there are published TLEs (old punchcard format) that describe orbital parameters, and you can use those to estimate the position within ~10km (good enough for this).
https://celestrak.org/NORAD/elements/

by lumrn

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Very nice project! I have played around with it for a while and noticed that the top right satellite/debris selector doesn't seem to be working correctly as the "Satellites Only" and the "Debris Only" options don't seem to change anything on the ground track view.
I'm wondering if you have any information on Celestrak data licenses and usage terms? Their data comes from Space-Track (plus some directly from operators) which isn't very permissive with its usage and I never found anything more specific on Celestrak's website.
Reminds me of a space version of Flighty, best of luck with it!

by adrienfr31

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by Aachen

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by LastTrain

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Cool. It would be a neat feature if it had a mirror mode, showed you what your screen is pointing at instead of the front of your phone.

by mattlondon

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by somebudyelse

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by oivaksef

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by ohadkr

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by vladsiu

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by nefarious_ends

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The App Store says this app is 4+ years old. Sad that I can’t try the 3D view without paying but I think it’s interesting the Pro plan includes “20x the AI chat”. Oh my iPhone is VERY hot now, I better uninstall this app… good luck!