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Look up tonight

ORBITALNET

Differential Diagnosis for the Sky

A film aboutOrbitalNetOpen-world planning for distributed space observatories

Starring10,109 Starlink satellitesas themselves, from public TLEs, 7 April 2026

AndNGC 4993at RA 13h09m48s, Dec −23°23′

Inspired byGW170817 · GRB 170817A · AT 2017gfoLIGO, Virgo, and the observatories that raced to watch

PhysicsSGP4-derived orbits · real Sun and Earth rotation · Earth's shadow · line of sight

IllustrativeMerger timing · light curves · battery levels · the decision sketches

ScoreProgrammed live in your browserorgan, clock, strings, choir, brass and a Shepard tone; no recordings

Earth imageryNASA, via the three.js examples

Built withThree.js · Vite · Web Audio · Lenis

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ORBITALNET

A constellation that decides, together, where to look.

Running Live simulation: SGP4 orbits, Redis bus, CNP auction, 3D globe.
Built Open-world planner with h₀, plus closed-world and heuristic baselines, on synthetic events.
Building Replay against real archival events.
Ahead Pre-registered tests. Results come from the experiment files, never typed by hand.

Read the paper See the code Research home

Orbits from 10,109 real Starlink TLEs · Sun and Earth rotation computed for 2026-04-07 · NGC 4993 at its true position · Merger, light curves and decision sketches are illustrative · Score synthesised live in your browser