Satellite Tracker – Live Map of Starlink and 30k Satellites

rolph 53 points 13 comments July 14, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (8 comments)

mrspacejam

cool site! i appreciate satellite trackers and sometimes leave satellite.love up in the background in orbit mode with the music on at home.

Eduard

the geosynchronous satellites fall on and bounce off earth

delichon

If you zoom in you can see them moving. Click on them to see their tracks. I'm surprised how random the orbits seem. It's too cloudy at the moment but maybe on a clear night I can check the accuracy by looking up.

Quiza12

Seeing them "slowly" move (but in reality incredibly quickly) reminds me of reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_(novel)

ultimoo

are their orbits and trajectories computed ahead of time to avoid collisions?

ikari_pl

I'm surprised that getting our low space to this state was even legal

hn111

Half a year ago, I captured a photograph of a long train of satellites. However, when I navigate to that location using this tool, I don’t see any satellite train present at that specific timestamp. I wonder if there are other satellites not included in this dataset, or if I should search way further from the location on the map

scrollop

Why are there demarcations towards the poles where the satellite density drops off? Seems Norway, Sweden and Finland have a much lower density of satellites .

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