- To get a better sense of the scale, if you are viewing this app on a 4K display, with the planet measuring about 2,000 pixels across Earth’s diameter is approximately 12,742 km (7,918 miles), so each pixel represents about 6.37 km (3.96 miles).
A Starlink satellite is roughly 6 m (20 ft) wide without its solar panels. This means a one-pixel satellite marker is shown at roughly 1,000 times its true size. So even if this image already looks extremely crowded, the dots are still massively exaggerated. Visually, there would be roughly another factor of 1,000 before the satellites themselves were shown at their true scale—although this does not mean that orbit could easily accommodate 1,000 times more satellites but I guess there is still some space in space.
by iamacyborg
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- I always like looking at this one https://platform.leolabs.space/visualization
- I'm surprised that getting our low space to this state was even legal
- Just thinking out loud: given that we know positions of these satellites, is one able to use it for non-gps navigation? Either by using vision - by tracking or by using some electromagnetic specter - listening to satellites...
by JackMorgan
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- I just released a new update to mine yesterday with ranges and the ability to make a story of multiple saved scenes. Then they can be played back at a presentation later.
https://www.spacebook.com/
- If you zoom in you can see them moving. Click on them to see their tracks. I'm surprised how random the orbits seem. It's too cloudy at the moment but maybe on a clear night I can check the accuracy by looking up.
- Nice site but personally I like satellite.love more and satellitetracker3d.com is cool too, there's about 500 of these all with varying features.
by greengreengrass
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- Nice site, but I'm really missing any altitude reference for the satellites. It's hard to use any satellite tracker with any degree of utility other than as a toy website when it's exceedingly difficult to determine and compare basic altitude information across different satellites.
- Unfortunately the share button doesn't seem to save the state fully, the sensor selection/bookmarking doesn't carry through.
Cool app though, have it on a large screen at our work to visualise the constellations we work with as a fun screensaver type thing.
- Half a year ago, I captured a photograph of a long train of satellites. However, when I navigate to that location using this tool, I don’t see any satellite train present at that specific timestamp.
I wonder if there are other satellites not included in this dataset, or if I should search way further from the location on the map
- Seeing them "slowly" move (but in reality incredibly quickly) reminds me of reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_(novel)
- Strange, there aren't even 20 at a time above Germany.
How many uplinks can one satellite handle?
- I always like to appreciate something good when I see one, excellent work, speak any day, any time, I’ve seen and contacted all sorts but there’s one that’s outstanding, true and reliable.
They helped me spy on my boyfriend whom I suspected had been cheating.
Henryclarkethicalhacker at gmail com is indeed a top notch
I highly commend this team for their smart work and professionalism.. this team are the best
- Why are there demarcations towards the poles where the satellite density drops off? Seems Norway, Sweden and Finland have a much lower density of satellites .
by mrspacejam
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- cool site! i appreciate satellite trackers and sometimes leave satellite.love up in the background in orbit mode with the music on at home.
- Just wow, I didn’t realize there’s that many star link satellites in orbit.
- Funny the location of the ground stations. Very odd clustering.
- That big zoom-out of Earth in the opening sequence of WALL•E comes to mind.
- are their orbits and trajectories computed ahead of time to avoid collisions?
by philipwhiuk
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- It's deeply misleading to mis-represent the size of satellites at this point.
by inemesitaffia
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- Use starlink.sx instead
- Man, in some ways this is a future Star Trek envisioned: a display showing you a planet's orbital hardware and its launch sites...
But the sad reality many of the hardware is Elon Musk's ejaculation stains, polluting the skies.
- could you use it to make an ultra small (focussed) sat dish?
- cool glad it has fast forward
- the geosynchronous satellites fall on and bounce off earth
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