AstrOS Engine

50,000 SATELLITES, LIVE IN YOUR BROWSER
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NOAA space weather · NASA Earth events · NASA asteroids

Mission posture

Assessing space environment…

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    NOAA space weather service

    Space weather

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    Solar storms that can disturb satellites, power grids and radio. Live from NOAA.

    Geomagnetic Kp·

    0 is calm, 9 is an extreme storm.

    Solar wind·
    R0 G0
    NASA Earth events

    Earth events

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    Wildfires, storms, volcanoes and floods happening now, seen from orbit. Source: NASA EONET.

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    NASA Earth events · live ISS position

    Active events · globe

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    ISS · acquiring…
    HISTORY · 30 DAYS BACKTODAY
    NOAA space weather · GOES satellites

    Solar activity

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    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.

    X-ray flux · 6 h·
    Planetary Kp · observed + forecast·
    NOAA space weather · DSCOVR and ACE spacecraft

    Solar wind · L1

    What the Sun is sending our way, measured at L1 by the DSCOVR and ACE spacecraft. Source: NOAA SWPC.

    Speed · km/s·
    Density · p/cm³
    IMF Bz · nT
    IMF Bt total · nT
    NASA asteroid watch (JPL)

    Near-Earth asteroids

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    Asteroids passing close to Earth this week. Source: NASA NeoWs (JPL).

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    AstrOS engine

    Orbital regimes

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    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.

    AstrOS engine · live ISS position

    Conjunction watch

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    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.

    In sunlight·
    ISS model vs live fix·
    AstrOS engine · pass forecast

    Sky over you

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    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.

    Ground site·
    Above your horizon·

    TENZAN LOGIC

    About the engine

    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.

    NASA Earth events

    Events · live feed

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    NOAA space weather service

    NOAA scales

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    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.

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    NOAA space weather · Kyoto observatory

    Geomagnetic storm · Dst

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    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.

    Dst · 72 h · nT·
    NASA asteroid watch (JPL)

    Asteroid approaches

    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.

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    AstrOS engine

    Engine

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    Visible objects
    The full story · who built it
    A live view of 50,000 satellites, computed on your graphics card.