Mission posture
Assessing space environment…
Assessing space environment…
Solar storms that can disturb satellites, power grids and radio. Live from NOAA.
0 is calm, 9 is an extreme storm.
Wildfires, storms, volcanoes and floods happening now, seen from orbit. Source: NASA EONET.
How strongly the Sun is flaring right now. X-ray brightness (GOES satellites) sets a flare’s class: C mild, M medium, X extreme. Below it, the 0-9 Kp index with NOAA’s 3-day forecast. Sources: NOAA SWPC / GOES.
What the Sun is sending our way, measured at L1 by the DSCOVR and ACE spacecraft. Source: NOAA SWPC.
Asteroids passing close to Earth this week. Source: NASA NeoWs (JPL).
Turn each orbital shell on or off: Low Earth (LEO), Medium Earth (MEO), Geostationary (GEO), and Molniya. Hiding one doesn’t slow the scene down.
Pairs of tracked objects passing within 25 km of each other, screened on the graphics card twice a second. Screening only: this is a Keplerian model with J2 drift and no uncertainty estimate, so a distance here is illustrative, never an operational close-approach figure.
The next three hours of overhead traffic for one ground site, marched forward on the graphics card for every object in the catalogue at once. A pass is listed once it clears 10° above the horizon. Same model as the rest of the engine, Keplerian with J2 drift, so times drift too: the figure below is the engine measuring its own error against the live ISS fix.
50,000 satellites, spread across four real orbital shells (LEO, MEO, GEO, Molniya), animated frame-by-frame straight on the graphics card; no game engine or 3D framework underneath, built from scratch in Rust, compiled to WebAssembly and rendered through WebGPU. It’s a stylised picture of Earth’s orbit, not a live tracker of real satellite positions, but the NASA data streaming around it is genuinely live.
NOAA’s three warning scales, like storm categories for space weather: radio blackouts (R), solar-radiation storms (S) and geomagnetic storms (G), each with the next-24 h forecast. Source: NOAA SWPC.
How deep the current geomagnetic storm goes. The Dst index measures how far a storm has dented Earth’s magnetic field: near 0 nT is quiet, below −50 nT a storm, below −100 nT an intense one. Source: NOAA SWPC / Kyoto.
The asteroids passing closest to Earth this week, nearest first. Distances are in LD, lunar distances: 1 LD is the Earth-Moon gap. Source: NASA NeoWs.