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Positions computed live in your browser from Celestrak orbital elements (SGP4 propagation), refreshed every 2 seconds. Click any satellite for its live dossier.
📡 SCAN THIS AREAAUTO REFRESH 20span anywhere on Earth, then scan · 250 nm sweep · live ADS-B
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Rewind replays every sweep recorded during this visit. Deep multi-year flight history requires licensed archives (FR24 / OpenSky research access); public APIs only serve live traffic, so this radar records its own time lapse while you watch. Click any aircraft for its dossier and route.
This is the azimuthal equidistant projection: the round Earth mathematically unrolled onto a flat disc centered on the North Pole. It is a real, rigorously defined map used in polar navigation and on the United Nations emblem, and it is the image most flat-Earth maps are copied from. Every data point on it is plotted with exact projection math from true latitude and longitude. Distances from the pole are exact; shapes and distances stretch toward the rim, which is why Antarctica smears into a ring: that ring is a projection artifact, not an ice wall.
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The academic record is clear. Scholars have known Earth is spherical since antiquity: Eratosthenes measured its circumference around 240 BC to within a few percent. Historians such as Jeffrey Burton Russell (Inventing the Flat Earth, 1991) document that the idea of a medieval flat-Earth belief is a 19th-century myth. Modern flat-Earth models make testable predictions that fail: they cannot reproduce time zones, southern-hemisphere flight times, lunar eclipse geometry, or satellite motion. This very site is a live experiment: the satellite tracker computes positions with SGP4 orbital mechanics around a spherical Earth, and the ISS telemetry matches it second by second. Those numbers only work on a globe.
projection: azimuthal equidistant (EPSG:104031 family) · coastlines: Natural Earth · references: Russell 1991, Cleomedes on Eratosthenes, NOAA geodesy
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Curated toggles show landmark finds. LIVE DATABASE chips stream real records from the Paleobiology Database and Wikidata (350k+ archaeological sites, 300k+ fossils by group) — press ＋ LOAD MORE to pull the next batch. Every marker opens a dossier with a full Wikipedia description.
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Live robotics manufacturers and labs worldwide from Wikidata (Boston Dynamics, KUKA, iRobot, FANUC, ABB and more). Drag the timeline to reveal companies founded up to a year; ⏳ animates the industry's growth. Click a marker for the company dossier with a full Wikipedia profile.