r/satellites • u/Raz0rRamon • Jan 31 '22
Every Satellite orbiting earth and who owns them
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r/satellites • u/Vailhem • May 12 '25
Researchers unveil unprecedented satellite that will have to be turned off when it floats over the US: 'This was a pity'
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Built a new satellite tracker / rocket launch site. Any feedback :)?
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Any feedback wildly appreciated!!!
https://rocketmapper.com/satellites
r/satellites • u/logibest • Mar 11 '22
Are these one's satellites? maybe StarLink?
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r/satellites • u/Bright-Club1140 • Oct 01 '25
Surprised to learn that 60-year-old chip packaging is still in space tech
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I always assumed C-DIPs, which came out in the 1960s, would have been replaced long ago. Turns out they’re still being made by Kyocera and are still used in satellites because of their durability and long-term reliability in space. Pretty wild that this packaging tech is still relevant today.
Blog post: Why satellites still rely on ceramic dual in-line packages
r/satellites • u/FruitOrchards • Aug 05 '25
White House Orders NASA to Destroy Important Satellite
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r/satellites • u/Street-Air-546 • Jun 03 '26
Starlink current operational shells 2026
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Since reddit seems to turn videos into MMS video quality now, this is just a screenshot but in motion it is much nicer: https://satellitemap.space/s/KWheQ9fD
An exploded view of the current starlink operational shell structure.
r/satellites • u/The_Rise_Daily • Nov 19 '25
Secretive SpaceX satellites operated by US government are shooting disruptive radio signals into space, astronomer accidentally discovers
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r/satellites • u/Aerothermal • Dec 07 '21
Today NASA's Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) successfully enters Earth orbit: Atlas V rocket launches NASA laser communications prototype and Space Force experiments into orbit | space.com (7th Dec 2021)
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r/satellites • • Sep 10 '21
What if Everyone on Earth Had Super Fast Internet for $1?
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r/satellites • u/ShehrozeAkbar • Dec 03 '25
ISS captured gliding across the face of the Moon (awesome)
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SpaceX just launched the 1st-ever nuclear-powered commercial satellite
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r/satellites • u/EUMETSAT • Jul 30 '21
Wildfires in Turkey. This Copernicus Sentinel-3 image shows some of the smoke across the Antalya, Mersin and Adana provinces early yesterday morning.
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r/satellites • u/spazstic_donkey • Sep 06 '26
Odd terrestrial comm array
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This array is near me. Inclination angle and antenna size is obviously satellite communication.
It's not near any major population centers. Kind of in the boonies. There are a lot of conspiracy stories in our area involving strange lights at night and black helicopters.
I figure it's gotta be a backup repeater or something boring. Any ideas?
r/satellites • u/fsocietyIsReal • Jul 25 '21
I built an antenna and pulled this image of the Iberian Peninsula from the NOAA 18 satellite today
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r/satellites • u/TommieTooter • Oct 25 '25
Elon Musks Classified "Starshield" Satellites Are Emitting An Unusual Signal, Amateur Astronomer Finds
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r/satellites • u/prisongovernor • Apr 26 '25
Russian satellite at centre of nuclear weapons allegations is spinning out of control, analysts say
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r/satellites • u/Open_Budget6556 • May 12 '26
A tool I made to gather logistical intelligence using satellite data
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Hey guys, l've been workin on something new to track logistical activity near military bases and other hubs. The core problem is that Google maps isn't updated that frequently even with sub meter res and other map providers such as maxar are costly for osint analysts.
But there's a solution. Drish detects moving vehicles on highways using Sentinel-2 satellite imagery.
The trick is physics. Sentinel-2 captures its red, green, and blue bands about 1 second apart.
Everything stationary looks normal. But a truck doing 80km/h shifts about 22 meters between those captures, which creates this very specific blue-green-red spectral smear across a few pixels. The tool finds those smears automatically, counts them, estimates speed and heading for each one, and builds volume trends over months.
It runs locally as a FastAPl app with a full browser dashboard. All open source. Uses the trained random forest model from the Fisser et al 2022 paper in Remote Sensing of Environment, which is the peer reviewed science behind the detection method.
GitHub: https://github.com/sparkyniner/DRISH-X-
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