Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/04/06/3d-realtime-map-of-objects-in.html
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The “find all objects from this launch” option is eye opening.
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The Iridium 33 collision debris field is massive.
That’s allot of nuts and bolts wizzing around the planet at high velocity.
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Fixed that for you.
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True that. Here’s another visualization (that I found in the youtube recommendations after watching the one you posted).
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We need to be careful not to trigger the Kessler syndrome. It could be devastating to our space activities.
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If I were a billionaire I would pay India to launch a hostile manueverable satellite that I use to approach and hack all the state-owned surveillance ones.
Maybe I should just write a short story!
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It would be helpful if I knew what search terms to look for.
I searched for “ISS” and got about a dozen results.
Of those results, ISS (Zarya) is the International Space Station.
Zarya (“Sunrise”) is the name of the Russian-built command module that was the first module of the ISS to be launched.
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Here is a snapshot of what Stuffin.space shows for just the Iridium 33 debris field currently orbiting Earth: https://i.imgur.com/DBPA8HK.jpg
If you want to see it on the site, just go to stuffin.space and hover the mouse pointer over the “Group” word. A menu of choices will show up…choose Iridium 33. Then GASP!
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Stuffin.space is NOT Real-Time tracking. They do update the site to show orbital paths of all tracked objects. But they were still showing the Tiangong-1 Station following its orbital path…2 days(!) after it had already been destroyed.
Key for stuffin.space: Red dot = Satellite, Blue dot = Rocket body, Grey dot = Debris, Yellow dot = unknown and/or meteorite fragements.
Here are a few other satellites to view on stuffin.space…
http://stuffin.space/?intldes=2008-048A
http://stuffin.space/?intldes=2017-071N
http://stuffin.space/?intldes=2017-042G
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If you like this, try www.radioiss.com. I need to update the radio station URL streams, so it doesn’t play an Australian police scanner while flying over Madagascar.
Should be a mobile game. CROSSY ORBITS.
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