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v4.11.2 · PROCEDURAL
Space Science · Satellite Technology · Orbital Mechanics

Engineering the machines that live in the sky

A fully procedural, real-time exploration of spaceflight. Every pixel here is generated in your browser — WebGL nebula shaders, Kepler-accurate orbital physics, synthesised audio and a cinematic rendered frame by frame. Nothing is a stock image or a video file.

01 — Subsystems

The satellite technology stack

A spacecraft is a flying data centre with no maintenance window. Power, propulsion, attitude control, thermal management, communications and payload — a few hundred kilograms that must run flawlessly for fifteen years in hard vacuum. Hover a module to interrogate it.

02 — Orbital Mechanics

Live constellation simulator

Drag the globe to rotate, scroll to change altitude. Period, velocity, escape velocity, ground coverage and one-way latency are all computed live from Kepler's third law and the standard gravitational parameter μ = 3.986 × 10¹⁴ m³/s².

Altitude 550 km
Inclination 53°
Satellites 36
Time warp 60×
LEO Mega
Sun-Sync
MEO GNSS
GEO Belt
ISS
Laser links
Ground track
Coverage cones
Orbital period 95.6 min
Orbital velocity 7.590 km/s
Escape velocity 10.73 km/s
Coverage / sat 2.40 %
Round-trip latency 3.7 ms
Revs per day 15.06
03 — Procedural Cinema

Mission film — "Ascent"

Fifty-six seconds of cinema with no video file behind it. Ignition, max Q, stage separation, orbital insertion, solar array deployment and downlink acquisition — particles, lens flares, camera shake and audio all generated at 60 fps. Click the scrubber to jump, or press Space.

SCENE 01 · PAD 39A
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00:00 / 00:56
01 Ignition
02 Max Q
03 Stage Sep
04 Insertion
05 Deploy
06 Downlink
04 — Real-time

Where is the Space Station right now?

This map polls a public tracking API every five seconds for the true position of ISS (ZARYA), NORAD ID 25544. If the network is blocked, an onboard propagator takes over and keeps flying the 51.6° inclination orbit so the display never goes dark.

CONNECTING…
Latitude
Longitude
Altitude
Velocity
Source
Timestamp
MISSION CONTROL — TELEMETRY STREAM
05 — History

Seven decades in orbit

From a beeping aluminium sphere to reusable boosters and constellations of ten thousand mass-produced spacecraft.

06 — Living Gallery

Stills that wake up

Every tile starts as a desaturated frozen frame. Hover and it saturates, accelerates and resolves into a running simulation. Click to lock it live.

07 — Flight Crew

The humans behind the mission

Every subsystem on this page is procedural — the people flying it are not. Two callsigns on the roster for this build.

S

Srinish

Mission Commander

Owns the flight plan end to end — call authority on go/no-go decisions and overall mission direction.

H

Harjit

Flight Systems Engineer

Keeps every subsystem — power, propulsion, comms — nominal from ignition through orbital insertion.