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[Dan Dixon]

Here's a great simulation of around 400 geosynchronous satellites that are orbiting our Earth.

This was created by Steve Hasselberg from data on this site:
http://celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/

It will likely run slow. Press 'T' on your keyboard to turn off trails.

Or select some of the satellites with box selection mode and delete them.

The download link is right above the image (below this line).

[smjjames]

Talk about crowded all right O.O I already knew it was crowded up there (and thats not counting the dead sattelites and oribital debris zooming about), but that's a pretty good representation of how crowded it is.

[FiahOwl]

Muahahahahaha

[APODman]

Here's a great simulation of around 400 geosynchronous satellites that are orbiting our Earth.

Great simulation !!!

Can I present it to the satellite observers of the discussion board Seesat-L ? 

Curiously yesterday I did one simulation of the ("mysterious") orbit failed Phobos Grunt probe with the last TLE published by USSTRACOM (see image).

Dan, it´s possible to develop some way, in future versions of US, to insert directly the TLE of satellites in its original format of two lines (to maintain the high accuracy of the data) ?

[Dan Dixon]

Dan, it´s possible to develop some way, in future versions of US, to insert directly the TLE of satellites in its original format of two lines (to maintain the high accuracy of the data) ?

Adding support for this is something I want to add, yes.

And please share it with whoever you want.

[Yannos]

I am really curious why the vast majority of those satellites have a similar inclination value. I can only suppose it has to do with getting the best info in some manner.

If I find anything googling or asking at the university I will post it.

EDIT: Ok I found it: it is because these sats or may I say most of these sats are not just geosynchronous but actually geostationary. Which means they are placed on the equator so that it is easier for us on earth to place antenas facing fixed points.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geosynchronous_orbit