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by jeyoder 3999 days ago
Site creator here, thanks for the suggestion! I added a bit of rotation before the user clicks on anything.
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Oddly, I built something very similar a while ago. I haven't pushed an updated version anytime recently, so there isn't any UI, but here is an example of it:

http://spacejunk.herokuapp.com/

I used the subset of the decaying data from spacetrack.

Can you add some sort way to keep an object centered as it moves?
How do you restart the spin? It stops once you query a specific item and while I can manually turn the presentation the automatic spin never resumes