LeoLabs Low Earth Orbit Visualization

Hey again y'all

Today I bring you an amazing tool created by LeoLabs in an interactive visualization of the many myriads of space flotsam in Low Earth Orbit


kind of amazing in a frightening way




Just the sheer amount of stuff we jammed up there is impressive.


Enjoy.
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a reply to: dashen



Sanford and Son need to start a space junk division .....

a reply to: dashen

Is this all space junk? Or does it include low orbit satellites like Starlink?

a reply to: dashen

Is the Black Knight Satellite listed...


When you get right down to it we might really just be considered the galaxies trash dump.

Caution : images shown in this picture appear 10,000x larger than what they are.

Makes you wonder how they get any rockets into space with all that crap plus satellites up there……

a reply to: dashen

This reminds me of an old 1970s TV show, Salvage 1 with Andy Griffith...

en.m.wikipedia.org...

The pilot centers on Harry Broderick (Andy Griffith) who owns the Jettison Scrap and Salvage Co. and is a specialist in reclaiming trash and junk to sell as scrap. His dream is to recover equipment left on the Moon during Apollo Program missions.

Here's the pilot movie, 2 seasons of the show followed.

DAMN!

If the earth is warming up, it's because all the debris that we've left up there is trapping the heat. We sure can screw stuff up, can't we?

a reply to: dashen

Click to check the "Debris" button on the upper left.

originally posted by: Vasa Croe
a reply to: dashen

Is this all space junk? Or does it include low orbit satellites like Starlink?

Starlink is there. Zoom all the way in, and one can hover the mouse over individual satellites for information on them.

In zoomed mode, it is cool how the purple dots swim all over the map

Cheers