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What’s Up: A Visual Database of Satellites and Debris

Published on 2011-10-20 by Mark VandeWettering

I’ve pondered creating something like this a bunch of times: a way to visualize all the satellites currently in Earth orbit. Somebody beat me to it, using Google Earth and a .kml file. It’s pretty astounding just how packed low earth orbit is, and it’s cool to check out the band of geostationary satellites as well.

Check it out!

What’s Up: A Visual Database of Satellites and Debris.

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Last updated May 14, 2025

Based upon Sunaina Pai's excellent makesite.py script

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