Low Earth Orbit Visualization
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Low Earth Orbit Visualization
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Re: Low Earth Orbit Visualization
#2I don't really know what I'm looking at here, but it feels very sci-fi and I'm into it.
I also wonder, how do they track so many objects? Who actually tracks them? How much does it cost (energy, engineers) to maintain the tracking systems?
Edit: Are these all simulated orbits? Is there a big "orbit registry" somewhere? And what are the "beams"?
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#3I’ve played kerbal space program for over 500 hours and I can confirm LEO looks like this in my game.
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#4Neat. 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.
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#5Neat. 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 ?
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#6The fact that I can view LEO objects in real-time on a phone just shows how awesome technology has become.
Even 10 years ago, that thought would have been ludicrous.
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#7That crashed my browser HARD. Needed a full reboot. Thanks for that!
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#8I don't really know what I'm looking at here, but it feels very sci-fi and I'm into it. I also wonder, how do they track so many objects? Who actually tracks them? How much does it cost (energy, engineers) to maintain the tracking systems? Edit: Are these all simulated orbits? Is there a big "orbit registry" somewhere? And what are the "beams"?
LEOlabs operates its own radar systems that point upwards-ish. The "beams" you see are the fields of view of their radars. When an object crosses that field of view going at orbital speeds, LEOlabs tracks it and uses the partial trajectory information to figure out the orbit of the object. From there, it can potentially associate that object with existing objects in its own and other databases (the US Space Force, which operates its own radars, is one of the best-known).
It then sells that information to spacecraft operators, who may be using the orbital information to determine if their spacecraft has a risk of hitting another object in space, or to figure out where their spacecraft are in the first place (usually when they're not talking to the ground).
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#9I don't really know what I'm looking at here, but it feels very sci-fi and I'm into it. I also wonder, how do they track so many objects? Who actually tracks them? How much does it cost (energy, engineers) to maintain the tracking systems? Edit: Are these all simulated orbits? Is there a big "orbit registry" somewhere? And what are the "beams"?
I am pretty certain they must be dead reckoning the location with occasional updates.
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#10These kinds of visualizations give you the impression that LEO is much more crowded than it actually is.