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A hands-on space experiment that turns orbital motion into a simple and fun physics puzzle.

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Orbital Testbed

A unity project where you can visualize orbits using the terms used by the professionals making orbits for real satellites.

Why I made this project

I made this project because in school I am participating in a "compition" where we create satellite orbits using the softaware the real engineers use. So to learn all of the aspects of the I created this project I did lots of resaarch, that I probably wouldn't do if I wasn't making this project, so I could implement all of the parts to be as accurate as possible compared to STK (the professional software I am acctually using).

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  • A side window with all of the values to cahnge the orbit
    • Apogee
    • Perigee
    • Incination
    • RAAN
    • Argument of Perigee
  • Hovering over the names of these values will show a small text giving the definition of these values
  • Right Click and drag to rotate around the Earth
  • Scrollbar to zoom in and out
  • A sphere representing a satellite follwing the orbit

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A hands-on space experiment that turns orbital motion into a simple and fun physics puzzle.

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