Low Earth Orbit

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2026

Low Earth Orbit

Every catalogued object below 2,000 km as one moving dot, from 1957 to today.

WebGLReact 18GCAT catalogue60k animated pointsNo dependencies

Component Settings

Extend Past TodayTurnable GlobeOpening RunOrbital Motion

Documentation

Data

The GCAT catalogue, with real orbits where one is published and a generated place on the right shell where not. The catch: “in orbit” does not mean working, and debris carries its parent’s launch date.

Build

The GPU computes every position from one time value, and the year only sets how many points are drawn, so dragging the slider allocates nothing.

Limits

Past today the slider projects the last five years of growth. Debris is not projected.

Made byPavel Barchanski