View and propagate the full CelesTrak satellite catalog in realtime.
The following packages have to be installed prior to compilation: gcc pkg-config gtk+-3.0 libcurl epoxy meson. On Debian-based systems, run the following command to install them:
apt-get install gcc pkg-config libgtk-3-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libepoxy-dev meson
To compile:
meson setup builddir
meson compile -C builddir
To run the program:
cd builddir
./orbvis
Copyright (c) 2022-2025 Wojciech Graj
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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Portions of this software are copyright of their respective authors:
- stb, Licensed under the MIT License; Copyright (c) 2017 Sean Barrett
- hashmap.c, Licensed under the MIT License; Copyright (c) 2020 Joshua J Baker
- sgp4, Licensed under the Unlicense
- satcat, Licensed under the MIT License; Copyright (c) 2022-2025 Wojciech Graj
- libcurl, Licensed under the curl license; Copyright (c) 1996 - 2022, Daniel Stenberg, and many contributors
- cglm, Licensed under the MIT License; Copyright (c) 2015 Recep Aslantas
- epoxy, Licensed under the MIT License; Copyright (c) 2013-2014 Intel Corporation
- Khronos OpenGL API; Copyright (c) 2013 The Khronos Group Inc.
- Gtk+3, Licensed under the LGPL-2.1+ License