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Re:Real-time map of every Starlink satellite in orbit by jsemrau on Monday March 25, 2024 @01:52AM (#39813152)
Interesting. What library is that? Does it use propagation off from TLE data?
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Re:Real-time map of every Starlink satellite in orbit by Rebelgecko on Monday March 25, 2024 @02:37AM (#39813291)
From eyeballing the JS, it looks like it's pulling TLEs from Celestrak and doing SGP4
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Re:Real-time map of every Starlink satellite in orbit by fredrickd on Monday March 25, 2024 @03:47AM (#39813613)
yep that's right. uses https://github.com/shashwatak/satellite-js.
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Re:Real-time map of every Starlink satellite in orbit by jsemrau on Monday March 25, 2024 @05:51PM (#39821645)
Thank you!
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