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

Posted by Soulskill on 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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  1. A .space domain! by MobyDisk · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I rarely post to Slashdot unless I have something to contribute, but this time I just have to say:

    WOW.

    1) I didn't know there was a .space domain.
    2) Holy moly that is beautiful.