SATMAP7, short for "Satellite Map 7", is a full-stack, real-time 3D satellite tracker web application. Visualize planet Earth and explore thousands of orbiting satellites to scale in real-time. Key features include visualizing artificial constellations, visualizing satellite orbit paths, and discovering satellite statistics or semantic descriptors. This application is intended for education purposes only.

The primary data source of this application is CelesTrak which is a 501(c)(3) non-profit (link: http://www.celestrak.org/). SATMAP7 sources all of its satellite tracking data from CelesTrak in TLE format. Secondary data sources are: NASA Earth Observatory for the Earth textures, and Satcat or WikiMedia for satellite or constellation specific media.

SATMAP7 is a Next application that uses React Three Fiber and Three.js for the graphics engine, Zustand for global state management, Redis for server-side caching, satellite.js for SGP4 propagation, WebGL/GLSL for custom shaders, and Tailwind for the HUD UI. SATMAP7 is primarily written in Typescript.

I'm Abiel Kim, a CS graduate (AI specialization) from Simon Fraser University. I'm very friendly! Find me at my personal website here: https://abielkim.vercel.app/.