/ThingsInSpace

A real-time interactive WebGL visualisation of objects in Earth orbit

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Things in Space

Original author: James Yoder (https://github.com/jeyoder)

A real-time interactive WebGL visualisation of objects in Earth orbit

The official live version is hosted at http://stuffin.space/

Installation

For the most part it is simply a question of dropping the files into a folder and serving them up from there.

If any changes are made to the underlying javascript files, then the script-loader.php will need to be run, as follows:

php script-loader.php > scripts/script-loader.js

This step is done to avoid needing an environment that provides php on the public facing server. For example, this allows the project to hosted on github.io.

Getting TLE data

While TLE data (Two-Line Elements) is included in the project, it won't be up to date.

If you wish to get current TLE data, then head over to Space Track, login and then you can use the following URL:

https://www.space-track.org/basicspacedata/query/class/tle_latest/ORDINAL/1/EPOCH/%3Enow-30/orderby/NORAD_CAT_ID/format/json