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Chikyu Earth地球

A line-drawn globe of the world's countries that turns at the Earth's own rate, with an optional realistic Earth from space and markers for any place.

Chikyu is the Japanese word 地球 for the Earth. About the name

Contents

Reference · The Earth-orbit catalogue: orbit class, object kind, colours, fleets and the packed file format (no data)

CLASS_LIMITSconstant

The numbers behind the classes: the highest point a low orbit may have (2,000 km), the eccentricity from which an orbit is highly elliptical (0.25), and how far from 35,786 km the lowest and highest points of a geostationary orbit may be (1,500 km).

Import it

import { CLASS_LIMITS } from "@johnmorrisdotca/chikyu-earth/catalogue";

Definition

const CLASS_LIMITS: { readonly leoApogeeKm: 2000; readonly heoEccentricity: 0.25; readonly geoBandKm: 1500; } = { leoApogeeKm: 2000, heoEccentricity: 0.25, geoBandKm: 1500 } as const

Members

NameTypeDescription
leoApogeeKm2000
heoEccentricity0.25
geoBandKm1500

Examples

import { CLASS_LIMITS } from "@johnmorrisdotca/chikyu-earth/catalogue";

console.log(CLASS_LIMITS.leoApogeeKm, CLASS_LIMITS.heoEccentricity, CLASS_LIMITS.geoBandKm);
2000 0.25 1500

What it prints (run when this page was built)

View sourceEdit on GitHubMade from the source of @johnmorrisdotca/chikyu-earth 0.51.1.