http://cesium.agi.com/LotsOfSatellites/ Think you need a fairly modern browser for it to work but this is really interesting. Just seeing how many there are, where they are, who put them there and what their mission is.
yeh I think Kepler is more interesting than SETI really. My family used to do SETI years ago... did they ever find anything? Its a shame the Kepler satellite recently failed but they still have a massive amount of data to analyse. www.planethunters.org
That is a lot of satellites. Makes you wonder how they manage to get a spacecraft to go to the Moon or to Mars or wherever without hitting one.
yeh I thought that but I think actually there is still a lot of space when you go down to the scale of a rocket. I was surprised at just how BIG some of them are though. I expected them all to be about the size of a desktop PC or something
True, there are bigger gaps but trajectory calculations have to be very precise for going to the moon never mind mars (what am I saying lol...), so must be a logistical nightmare to work them out so that satellites aren't hit as many of them are going in different directions at different speeds.
