12 points wanick 1 hour ago 4 comments
jairofdez 1 hour ago | parent
great project!!!!
java-man 1 hour ago | parent
Super! Not easy to select or center on a planet though.
wanick 1 hour ago | parent
Author here. It's a browser view of the Solar System at real scale, with its current state, plus the objects around Earth from the CelesTrak catalog.
Data: CelesTrak TLEs (SGP4), asteroids and comets from JPL SBDB, spacecraft positions from JPL Horizons. Updated daily.
Rendering is WebGL2, orbit propagation runs in web workers. The asteroid set (~30 MB) loads in the background.
The time slider runs forwards and backwards; satellites appear and disappear by launch date.
eutropia 11 minutes ago | parent
What's with those giant blobs of asteroids offset in jupiter's orbit by like 60deg on either side?