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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 · The Sun, Moon and planets: pure parts

satelliteKindfunction

Which kind of drawing a satellite gets, from its name: a large constellation (STARLINK, ONEWEB, KUIPER) is flat, a cubesat (FLOCK, DOVE, LEMUR, SPIRE and similar names) is cubesat, a station (ISS, ZARYA, TIANGONG, CSS) is station, a communications satellite (by the common operators' names) has a dish, and anything else is a plain bus.

Import it

import { satelliteKind } from "@johnmorrisdotca/chikyu-earth/space";

Definition

function satelliteKind(name: string): SatelliteKind

Parameters

NameTypeDescription
namestring

The satellite's name (the element set's OBJECT_NAME).

Returns

SatelliteKind

The kind.

Examples

import { satelliteKind } from "@johnmorrisdotca/chikyu-earth/space";

console.log(satelliteKind("STARLINK-1007"), satelliteKind("ISS (ZARYA)"), satelliteKind("INTELSAT 39"), satelliteKind("NOAA 19"));
flat station communications bus

What it prints (run when this page was built)

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