Post · bonfire.cafe

Cool animation of current satellites, instruments, and debris. You can zoom in and select a specific satellite and follow along in its path, and (if you turn off debris) you can see satellites by country of origin. Mesmerizing while also frightening.

https://platform.leolabs.space/visualizations/leo

#Satellites

A screenshot of the website showing the globe in the middle, with lots of little tiny symbols in different colors representing the country of origin of the different satellites. By lots, I mean zillions of them. There are also some large red areas, some in circles, some in sort of a star pattern, and those represent the instruments. I have no idea what instruments they're talking about, but they cover large regions of countries.

On the left side, you can see toggles on whether to view debris, beams, instruments, and follow the earth. It's very pretty if scary. — A screenshot of the website showing the globe in the middle, with lots of little tiny symbols in different colors representing the country of origin of the different satellites. By lots, I mean zillions of them. There are also some large red areas, some in circles, some in sort of a star pattern, and those represent the instruments. I have no idea what instruments they're talking about, but they cover large regions of countries. On the left side, you can see toggles on whether to view debris, beams, instruments, and follow the earth. It's very pretty if scary.

    LeoLabs

#satellites

Peter N Lewis

@peternlewis@mastodon.social · 1 hour ago

@podfeet remember the scale tho. There are 26,600 objects spread over an area larger than the surface of the earth (510M km²), as well as spread in height. Each object has ~20,000km². Displays like this hide that gap. Space is big.

Mike Escutia

@mescutia@mastodon.online · 12 hours ago

@podfeet It looks like the Earth is getting fuzzy (in the hair sense).