About LowEarth

See what's overhead.

LowEarth tracks every cataloged object in orbit around Earth — about 15,000 active satellites and notable debris fragments — and turns each one into a deep, beautifully designed reference page. Free for everyone. No paywalls on the core experience.

Who built this and why

Built by Brian L. The lane has been empty since Stuff in Space went offline in early 2022. Public satellite trackers are either ugly (CelesTrak, Heavens-Above, N2YO) or locked behind enterprise pricing ($1K–$4,500 per satellite per month). LowEarth is the beautiful, free, journalist-friendly middle.

How we're honest about the data

We don't claim “real-time.” Every position you see is propagated from a TLE (Two-Line Element set) — the standard format CelesTrak and Space-Track publish multiple times a day. Propagation gets less accurate the further past the TLE epoch you go. We display the epoch on every page so you know exactly how stale the underlying data is.

Data sources

The embed widget

Every per-object page has an embeddable live globe view. Free for editorial use, with required attribution. Find the snippet near the bottom of any satellite page.