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Satellite positions, passes and visibility from orbital elements, in TypeScript, checked against Skyfield
Details
- External ID
- 1377582357
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- engine
- Website domain
- orbinauts.com
- Launched
- Sept. 19, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 9
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.21822956699974377
- Tags
- orbital-mechanics, satellite-passes, satellite-tracking, sgp4, skyfield, typescript
- Fetched at
- Sept. 21, 2026, 1:02 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 21, 2026, 1:02 a.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- space and geospatial visualization tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- typescript library for satellite orbital tracking and visibility calculations
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial A web map displaying satellite coordinates is vibe-codeable, but calculating high-precision orbital propagations (SGP4/SDP4) and pass predictions validated against Skyfield requires solid astrodynamics math.
What it would actually take: Requires an implementation of SGP4/SDP4 propagation algorithms in TypeScript along with coordinate transformation matrices (TEME to ITRS/WGS84). To support thousands of orbiting bodies in real time, it requires Web Workers or WebGL computation pipelines and fetching fresh TLE/orbital element sets from Space-Track or Celestrak.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #136 of 188 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 319 days after the earliest competitor.
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