This looks extremely crowded - but reminds me of how apparently hard it was to find or bump into another ship crossing even a confined sea like the Med before sonar. With three dimensions here and more avoidance planning, even this level of space probably looks very empty still.
Low Earth Orbit Visualization
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#12Neat. I wonder if this is solely generated from their array of distrbuted sensors, or if this is just another visualization tool using space-track.org's data.
It doesn't appear to include any objects in the GEO belt (which space-track does), so I'd guess it's just objects from LEOlabs's own sensors.
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#13This is fascinating. Can someone point me to resources that explain Starlink's seemingly (but obviously not) random trajectories as well as their positions (some in a line, some on individual trajectories).
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#15Neat. I wonder if this is solely generated from their array of distrbuted sensors, or if this is just another visualization tool using space-track.org's data.
Im on my phone but you could probably look in the network requests panel of your browsers developer tools to see if any request is sent to space-track.org. Side note: does anyone know of a good tool / app for looking at things like that on iOS ?
No network activity. Seems like it might update occasionally.
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#16These kinds of visualizations give you the impression that LEO is much more crowded than it actually is.
I feel like the "objects" aren't anywhere near being to scale. Pretty sure they should be MUCH MUCH smaller relative to the earth to be realistic.
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#17That's really cool. I know this comment is low-effort, but I don't really care - this type of real-time visualization is really interesting and I want to see more of this sort of thing going forward.
That said, the blue dots are "unknown" - what could those possibly be? Not trying to be conspiratorial or anything, but is it some sort of debris from classified operations or foreign intelligence operations?
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#18These kinds of visualizations give you the impression that LEO is much more crowded than it actually is.
Right, because apart from the moon, all objects orbiting the earth are considerably smaller than the New York Metropolitan Area which would not be your understanding if you took the visualization to be a scale representation.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Im on my phone but you could probably look in the network requests panel of your browsers developer tools to see if any request is sent to space-track.org. Side note: does anyone know of a good tool / app for looking at things like that on iOS ?
No network activity. Seems like it might update occasionally.
It does.
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#20This is fascinating. Can someone point me to resources that explain Starlink's seemingly (but obviously not) random trajectories as well as their positions (some in a line, some on individual trajectories).
The ones all in a line are recently launched. They are launched ~50 at a time into a low orbit and use thrusters to raise themselves up over the course of a few weeks or months. During that process they are all lined up in a row which slowly lengthens over time. As they reach operational altitude they separate into groups and each group spaces itself evenly around one orbit for even coverage.
For more detail than you ever wanted, check here: https://mikepuchol.com/modeling-starlink-capacity-843b2387f5...