A Real-Time Map of All the Objects In Earth's Orbit

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday July 7, 2015 @08:57AM from the except-for-that-mickey-mantle-home-run dept.

rastos1 writes: It started as a passion project in April for 18-year-old James Yoder, an alum of FIRST Robotics, the high school robotics competition. He wanted to learn more about 3D graphics programming and WebGL, a JavaScript API. It's stuffin.space, a real-time, 3D-visualized map of all objects looping around Earth, from satellites to orbital trash. In total, stuffin.space tracks 150,000 objects. Type in a satellite name to scope out its altitude, figure out its age, group satellites by type, and so on.

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Re:Drives me nuts by Anonymous Coward · 2015-07-07 10:47 · Score: 3, Funny

When I was a kid, all we had for visualizations was a milk carton and a candle.
Luxury! When I was a lad, we lived in a milk carton by the side of the road.
With no candle, either!
Man that sounds like a great life.
When I was a lad my picture was on a milk carton because I was kidnapped by a human trafficking ring and forced to perform "candle shows".