{"id":51826,"date":"2023-04-20T19:41:56","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T19:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=51826"},"modified":"2023-04-20T20:20:27","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T20:20:27","slug":"a-lot-of-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/51826","title":{"rendered":"A Lot of Satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"900\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1800 \/ 900;\" width=\"1800\" controls loop src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/04\/satellite-locations_08hours_animated.mp4\"><\/video><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Computed Satellite Positions for 3 hours on 6 April 2023<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There are more than 7300 satellites in orbit above the Earth, and the mp4 animation above (from Rick Kohrs, SSEC; <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/04\/satellite-locations_08hours_animated.gif\">click here for an animated gif<\/a>) shows their locations during about 3 hours on 6 April 2023.  The points were computed using TLE data from <a href=\"http:\/\/celestrak.org\/\">https:\/\/celestrak.org<\/a>.  Some satellites are in geostationary orbit along the equator and show little movement; various polar orbiters and starlink orbits are apparent as well.  That&#8217;s a lot of satellites!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are more than 7300 satellites in orbit above the Earth, and the mp4 animation above (from Rick Kohrs, SSEC; click here for an animated gif) shows their locations during about 3 hours on 6 April 2023. The points were computed using TLE data from https:\/\/celestrak.org. Some satellites are in geostationary orbit along the equator [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":51835,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-satellites"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51826"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51845,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51826\/revisions\/51845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}