Tool Maps Every Satellite Pass Over a Location in the Past Week
A developer built a browser-based tool that lets users enter any location and find every satellite that passed over it in the previous seven days. It uses SGP4 orbital calculations on the CelesTrak catalog, which runs in about half a second, and then retrieves real imagery from Sentinel-2, Landsat, and NASA. The developer reports that the pass search was checked against a brute-force method in edge cases such as the poles and the antimeridian, with no passes missed. The project is open source on GitHub, and the author is seeking feedback on additional data sources to include.
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