[dgrin91]

> There’s traffic in space.

Is there? I mean obviously there are other satellites, but typically the framing has been that space and LEO is so big that it doesn't matter. That even with all the other satellites you typically don't need any sort of course correction except in very rare circumstances.

Isn't the better analogy 'I used to never need to do any swerving at all on my morning commute, but now I need to do it 600 times'?

[axus]

There's a space object and debris tracking visualization at http://astria.tacc.utexas.edu/AstriaGraph/

You can filter to "Low Earth Orbit" and play at 100x speed to get an idea of how things are moving around. There's a lot of intersecting paths, a lot of them Starlink satellite trains.

[SketchySeaBeast]

In those visualization aren't those orange spheres kilometers wide? I feel like we're still missing just how big space and the gap between the tiny objects is and that visualization blows it all out of proportion.

[dgrin91]

These visualizations are great to give you a basic sense of whats going on up there, but they do not represent any sort of realistic scale. If they did then the visualization would be boring because everything would be WAY too small.

Also it is stuck with a relatively 2D format. Are the satellites really intersecting or is there 10km of vertical distance between them? Its hard to tell with these forms of visualization.