Watch every satellite that flew above your house in the last week

An open-source web tool lets anyone track every satellite that has passed over their specific location in the last seven days, complete with automatically downloaded imagery from those satellites. It uses the SGP4 orbital model to calculate passes and runs entirely locally in your browser, with an option for self-hosting via forking the project on a platform like Vercel.

Beyond satisfying a space geek's curiosity, the tool provides practical benefits. Radio operators can use it to time contacts with satellite repeaters, while astronomers and the public can better understand the growing constellation of objects overhead. It democratizes access to satellite data, making the once-rarified world of orbital tracking accessible from any web browser. This is a clever hack that turns your computer into a personal mission control center.