Satellite Map

This application displays ALL known man-made satellites orbiting the Earth in a 3d viewer.

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This application makes use of the following libraries

• ArcGIS API for JavaScript by Esri
  • Esri’s JavaScript library for mapping and analysis.
• Bootstrap by Twitter Inc
  • A useful and comprehensive UI framework. This application leveraged a subset of bootstrap pertaining to buttons and input elements.
• Bootstrap Slider by Kyle J. Kemp
  • A bootstrap based slider.
• Google Fonts, specifically Orbitron and Oswald
  • "A web with web fonts is more beautiful, readable, accessible and open."
• jQuery by jQuery Foundataion Inc
  • A JavaScript framework for DOM manipulation and a foundation for many other frameworks.
• satellite-js by Shashwat Kandadai and UCSC
  • Modular set of functions for SGP4 and SDP4 propagation of TLEs.

Satellite Data

Satellite descriptions and ephemeris are sourced from Space-Tracker a site maintained by the Joint Functional Component Command for Space. The satellite-js JavaScript library is used to convert the downloaded TLE file into geographic locations.

Below, showing all 14,024 man-made satellites. Geostationary satellites are highlighted in red and the 24 hour trajectory is displayed for the ESA satellite GIOVE-B.

The following animation demonstrates the selection of all Russian satellites and the picking of discarded Briz-M rocket booster with the international designation of 2008-039C.