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GitHub repo: https://github.com/jeyoder/ThingsInSpace https://github.com/jeyoder/ThingsInSpace

• magicmu 11y ago
  This is awesome, thanks for the github link! I wonder what service is providing the data -- the lack of back-end in the repo and need for Web Workers makes me think it's something external. A brief tour of the source makes me think that the clue would be somewhere in satellites.js, but that is a doozy of a file.
  • DanAndersen 11y ago
    Looks like it's an internal JSON file (http://stuffin.space/TLE.json http://stuffin.space/TLE.json) representing the TLEs for each orbit (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-line_element_set https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-line_element_set).
  • jeyoder 11y ago
    The site downloads orbit data from the static file http://stuffin.space/TLE.json http://stuffin.space/TLE.json, which in turn is updated daily using the http://space-track.org http://space-track.org API.