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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

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Reference · Satellites: orbital elements in, positions out

CatalogueEntrytype

One satellite worth naming: its NORAD catalogue number (the number every source uses), its usual name, the group it is shown in, its orbit and a line on what it is.

Import it

import type { CatalogueEntry } from "@johnmorrisdotca/chikyu-earth/satellites";

Definition

interface CatalogueEntry {
    noradId: number;
    name: string;
    group: string;
    orbit: OrbitKind;
    about: string;
    aboutJa: string;
}

Members

NameTypeDescription
noradIdnumber
namestring
groupstring
orbitOrbitKind
aboutstring
aboutJastring

Examples

import { CATALOGUE } from "@johnmorrisdotca/chikyu-earth/satellites";

const oldest = CATALOGUE.find((entry) => entry.noradId === 5);
console.log(oldest?.name, oldest?.about);
VANGUARD 1 A grapefruit-sized sphere launched on 17 March 1958: the oldest satellite still in orbit, on a long oval that takes it about 3,800 km out.

What it prints (run when this page was built)

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