Orbit
AR satellite tracker, watch 15k+ objects
Details
- External ID
- 48873501
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Orbit
- Website domain
- github.io
- Launched
- July 11, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 89
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9002389486260454
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Hey HN! I made Orbit, an iOS app that allows you to see the satellites, planets, and constellations above you in AR, on a 2D map, and on a 3D globe. The app includes more than 15,000 objects tracked by CelesTrack, together with their pass predictions, descriptions, and detailed orbital data. A searchable catalog of all objects is also available, as well as a built-in chatbot designed to answer any space-related questions you might have.This is my first published iOS app, so any feedback is greatly appreciated! App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6772174570
Enrichment
- Theme
- space and geospatial visualization tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Observability & eval
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- ar satellite tracker for space enthusiasts
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Orbit integrates publicly available CelesTrak satellite data and standard orbital mechanics algorithms (like SGP4) into iOS's ARKit and SceneKit/Metal APIs, which can be assembled using existing Swift libraries and standard AI coding assistance.
Discussion
19 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Star Walk 2, Flighty
Concerns raised: Satellite/debris selector not working correctly, CelesTrack data license and usage terms unclear, App causes device overheating, 3D view locked behind paywall
Feature requests: Mirror mode to show what screen is pointing at, Android version, Open source release
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 92 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #13 of 93 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 243 days after the earliest competitor.
- DailySpace, Android app for exploring space photos and rocket launches · hn · 2026-01-14 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- ISS Live Tracker · ph · 2026-09-14 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Artemis.fyi · hn · 2026-04-04 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Quiet Orbit · ph · 2026-09-19 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Gravity · hn · 2026-06-09 · 217 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Real-time Solar System with 526k asteroids and all tracked satellites · hn · 2026-09-29 · 342 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Orbit · ph · 2026-09-24 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Where Is Artemis? · hn · 2026-04-05 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.42
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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