LLLaurent Lepczynski
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Orbital Traffic

Every active satellite, propagated live in your browser. And 69 years of getting there.

—active satellites
—are Starlink
—tracked objects in orbit
—re-entries, last 30 days
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1957 → todayYear by year

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—objects in orbit
—new catalogued objects
—orbital launches
—debris share

In orbit, by category

By country

By launcher

Since 1957Objects in orbit

Catalogued objects still in orbit at the end of each year (current year: today).

Since 1957Launches

Last 36 monthsRe-entries

    Integrated flight testsStarship

    —flights
    —successes ·
    —last five
    —last flight

    Flights of the full stack since April 2023 (prototype hops excluded). Green: success, gold: partial, red: failure.

    Open dataSources

    CelesTrakOrbital elements (GP/OMM) and the satellite catalogue (SATCAT) by Dr T.S. Kelso. Used under CelesTrak’s terms; data refreshed at most once a day.GP active:
    SATCAT:
    The Space Devs · Launch Library 2Launch history and Starship flights from the Launch Library 2 API (free tier, cached).LL2:
    LicencesGlobe: globe.gl / three.js (MIT). Orbits: satellite.js SGP4 (MIT). Relief and ocean masks: three-globe (MIT). LICENSES.txtAggregates and derived metrics computed by the author.
    NASAEarth imagery: NASA Visible Earth — Blue Marble Next Generation (Reto Stöckli, NASA Earth Observatory), Black Marble 2016 (NASA Earth Observatory / Suomi NPP VIIRS), Blue Marble clouds. Public domain.