Orbital Radar uses a consistent color system to distinguish active satellites from dead hardware, debris from payloads, and special objects from the everyday traffic. Learning the palette is the fastest way to read the sky.
Orbital Radar uses a consistent color system to distinguish active satellites from dead hardware, debris from payloads, and special objects from the everyday traffic. Learning the palette is the fastest way to read the sky.
Beyond the basic three, Orbital Radar highlights several categories of particular interest.
The majority of catalogued objects are debris fragments. Active payloads are actually the minority — which is why filtering matters so much when navigating the globe.
Patterns in the dot density tell you something about what's going on in that region of space.
Next up: clicking an object to reveal everything Orbital Radar knows about it — the data panel.