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The University of Southampton
Data Image Lab

Space junk

A project to map accumulations of orbital debris

 

Visualisations show the number of STARLINK satellites in earth's orbit and the likelihood of collision.

 

SOCRATES 31052020 STARLINK --1 KM

Black dot represents average minimum miss distance (km), 0.1 = 0.1km

Yellow circle represents number of STARLINK satellites in orbit

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