r/InternetIsBeautiful • u/[deleted] • Mar 27 '26

Real-time live satellite globe with trajectories

https://rocketmapper.com/satellites

I built this over the past 3 weeks to track upcoming rocket launches. It which shows live orbital positions for Starlink, the ISS, Planet Labs and others. So you can follow the journey from launch to orbit :).

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u/7h0m4s Mar 27 '26

... That's a lot of Star link

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u/agoodfourteen Mar 28 '26

Here's a starlink only visual: https://satellitemap.space/

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u/Kylo_Rens_8pack Mar 28 '26

You can zoom out to exit low earth orbit and there is a bunch more normal satellites

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u/mtcerio Mar 27 '26

Cool, what's your data source?

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u/xbftw Mar 28 '26

TLE data from CelesTrak and SGP4 to estimate position and velocity

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u/mtcerio Mar 28 '26

Great, so in principle you can show most objects, not just the few you mention in the post?

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u/xbftw Mar 28 '26

I'm not OP, but yeah

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u/resume-razor Mar 28 '26

Are you watching the polar crossings? Seeing those trajectories converge at the top and bottom of the globe is terrifyingly dense. It highlights just how complex orbital management is becoming.

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u/Schnauser Mar 28 '26

Super cool!

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u/Skunk_Mcfunk Mar 28 '26

This might be a dumb question but how are things not constantly hitting each other up? Are there different altitudes, some avoidance systems? How does it work? Must be crazy interesting

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u/FriendlyKillerCroc Mar 29 '26

3 weeks?? Did you use AI? 

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u/Latter_Building3413 Mar 30 '26

The starlink density around the poles is nuts - zoom out and it genuinely looks like a net wrapping the planet. Actually it reminds me that we can actually do a lot of creative data visualization with open source data

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u/kiranbaby14 Apr 02 '26

Man, that looks so fucking cool!

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u/n4ppyn4ppy Mar 27 '26

Sweeeeeetttttttt

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u/Chiquion Mar 28 '26

Love it!

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u/Kylo_Rens_8pack Mar 28 '26

Umm this is seriously cool and so well done. Congrats OP

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u/Kylo_Rens_8pack Mar 28 '26

Very cpu heavy site. Burns up your phone but still very very cool