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Real-time map of every Starlink satellite in orbit

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Re: Real-time map of every Starlink satellite in orbit

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Post by boxed »

londons_explore wrote: post #29
modeless wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a bad take. There are plenty of regulatory bodies that control what SpaceX is allowed to do. The satellites are not visible to the eye in their operational orbits and are incredibly tiny compared to the vastness of space. Their depiction here is thousands of times larger than actual size.

There are 7.8 billion people on earth. 7.5 billion of them had no say at all, and 0.33 billion of them had a tiny say via elected representatives who wrote the laws before starlink was even envisioned. I'm pretty sure if a global vote was held on the question of "Would you like to have 10,000 satellites launched so you have the option of paying a US company for broadband anywhere in the world?", the vote outcome woul…

If you ask the entire world you would get stupid answers to a lot of questions. "How old is the universe?" for example would get it hilariously wrong.

Re: Real-time map of every Starlink satellite in orbit

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Post by Rebelgecko »

denysvitali wrote: post #12
ada1981 wrote: post #6

It’s wild that a private company was able to take up this much orbital space / night sky and the people of the earth had no say in the matter.

I'm not an expert in this field, but I have the feeling that 3k satellites in orbit is a small percentage of what we have at the moment. What still amazes me is that the orbit seems to not be owned by any country. Reading from another comment it looks like the FCC regulated this - but I'm still confused since it covers multiple countries, and I'm pretty sure not everyone had a saying in whether they agreed on this. A…

>I have the feeling that 3k satellites in orbit is a small percentage of what we have at the moment.

It's less than half, but not by that much.

Re: Real-time map of every Starlink satellite in orbit

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Post by fredrickd »

Rebelgecko wrote: post #10
jsemrau wrote: post #5

Interesting. What library is that? Does it use propagation off from TLE data?

From eyeballing the JS, it looks like it's pulling TLEs from Celestrak and doing SGP4

yep that's right. uses https://github.com/shashwatak/satellite-js.

Re: Real-time map of every Starlink satellite in orbit

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Post by fredrickd »

bottlepalm wrote: post #22

Nice. It'd be cool to filter by version. Also visualizations like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rddTXl_7Wr8 are useful for getting the status of how far along each shell is to completion.

Great suggestion. I'll add this as soon as I get the time. Being able to color code each shell would be super cool.

Re: Real-time map of every Starlink satellite in orbit

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Post by redserk »

fredrickd wrote: post #36
redserk wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or it could simply be a very enthusiastic fan.

Yep, just a fan of the mission and have some friends on the team (and needed another statistic to fill out the bottom lol).

It’s a fun site to look at!

Thanks for putting together the visualization.

Re: Real-time map of every Starlink satellite in orbit

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Post by fredrickd »

jdyer9 wrote: post #18

Similar, with a slightly different goal: https://starlink.sx/ It was designed more with the intent of evaluating coverage of Starlink, especially in the early days when coverage was more sparse, but it also shows the satellites in orbit. The total numbers do have a slight mismatch between the sites.

Starlink.sx is really great and has a lot of data I haven't added yet. Working towards getting coverage hexagons + ground stations + more asap.
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