I originally built this visualisation of the GCAT (https://planet4589.org/space/gcat/) database a few years ago as part of some university coursework. It then sat collecting dust for a while, but I've finally found the time to give it a bit of a visual overhaul. It's now something I'm happy to share.
The main motivation with creating this was to show two things: just how much stuff is currently orbiting Earth, and how dramatically that number has increased over the last few years.
Speaking to some friends about this, we agreed that it's easy to read statistics about how many satellites there are, but it's hard to put those numbers into perspective. Visualising this from space and seeing everything orbiting our planet at once really drives home the scale of it!
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