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Orbit Codex
Type of site
Online database, spaceflight reference
Available inEnglish
FounderBret van Putten
URLhttps://orbitcodex.com
CommercialYes

Orbit Codex is an online reference database and interactive three-dimensional visualization platform for spaceflight. It catalogues launch vehicles, spacecraft, satellites, space debris, launch and landing sites, propulsion systems, space agencies, astronauts, and missions, and pairs each entry with a real-time 3D view of the corresponding object or location.[1]

History

Orbit Codex was founded by Bret van Putten, an artificial intelligence consultant, in response to the fragmented state of publicly available spaceflight data.[1]

Content

The platform organises its records across 18 categories and contains more than 14,000 entries covering objects throughout the Solar System.[1] The dataset includes over 8,000 satellites, more than 350 launch and landing sites, more than 350 organisations active in the space sector, and profiles of over 800 astronauts.[1] It also tracks over 20,000 Earth-orbiting satellites and debris objects, with physical properties such as mass and dimensions drawn from the European Space Agency's DISCOS database.[1]

Each entity has a dedicated entry from which users can transition into a three-dimensional view of the object in context — for example a satellite's current orbit, a base's launch pads, or a planet's surface.[1]

Data sources

Orbit Codex aggregates data from public datasets including The Space Devs API, the JPL Horizons system for trajectory data, and the CelesTrak and Space-Track two-line element catalogues for satellite tracking.[1] Records are supplemented by a manually curated dataset and by an automated enrichment pipeline built on Google Vertex AI with search grounding, which retrieves and structures historical information from cited sources.[1]

Visualization

Three-dimensional visualizations are rendered with CesiumJS, which the platform uses both as a visualization engine and as a spatial index for navigating its datasets.[1] Off-Earth terrain and imagery are supplied by the Cesium Mars and Cesium Moon datasets, and the site contains models of all eight planets in the Solar System.[1] The 3D environment is time-dynamic: users can move forward and backward in time along the trajectories of tracked objects.[1] Lunar surface operations, including the locations of Moon rovers, are visualized on Cesium Moon terrain.[1]

During the Artemis II mission, Orbit Codex operated a real-time tracker of the Orion spacecraft using trajectory data from the JPL Horizons API.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Chow, Sarah (9 April 2026). "Orbit Codex Tracks Flight of Artemis II in CesiumJS". Cesium. Cesium GS, Inc. Retrieved 9 June 2026.

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