Live orbital index
Explore crew ↓Humans beyond Earth / Right now
Who’s up
there?
Earth has company. Meet every human currently living above our atmosphere.
Enter orbit↘Current human count10 Off world
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Agencies04
Nations04
RegionLEO
SignalLaunch Library 2
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At this exact moment, 10 humans are falling around Earth instead of standing on it.
Orbital velocity~28,000 km/h
Fast enough to circle home roughly every 90 minutes.
Current manifest
Meet the off-world crew.
Every portrait is a person who is above the atmosphere right now. Choose a signal to inspect their flight record.
No crew match this signal.
The overview effect
One planet.
No borders.
From orbit, every argument about where one place ends and another begins disappears. There is just the bright, fragile thing we all came from.
Transmission / 03
“You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world.”Edgar Mitchell · Apollo 14