Satscape - Free satellite tracking program
satellite tracking for windows, linux and mac os

Introduction

Satscape is a donation-ware program written in Java which will display the position and predict passes over your town of any satellite in orbit around the earth.


Anything from an astronaut’s misplaced spanner to the international space station can be tracked very precisely using your computer alone.


It runs on any of these operating systems:


  1. Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP and Vista

  2. Linux (Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Suse etc)

  3. Mac OS (requires Java 6)

  4. FreeBSD

  5. Sun Solaris

Satscape (the 'classic' version) was created about 1997 onwards, I wrote it because I couldn't find a satellite tracker that worked the way I wanted it to work, and ended up sharing the program on the internet. Little did I know that it was to become so popular. I've now discontinued work on this version to produce a new-improved version written in the JAVA programming language, the advantage is that this is a modern language that is much more stable, and the really big advantage is that it will run on Windows, Linux and Mac OS, and any future operating systems that will run Java. It should even be possible to run it on various portable devices and phones eventually.

Donation-ware ?

First of all ‘Satscape’ is not a big multi-million dollar corporation. Its just me (Scott Hather), a computer, some spare time, and enthusiasm to create good software.


Donation-ware means that you can use Satscape forever and never pay for it. So, if you don’t like Satscape, then delete it and try something else. If you do like it, use it and tell everyone you know about it. If you really like it, then please make a donation.


No donation is too small or too big. If you want to donate one UK pound (about half a US dollar), that’s fine. If you want to donate £250,000 that’s VERY fine with me! Anything in-between is gratefully received, so thank you in advanced for your support. Your donation will go towards hosting the web site, my internet connection, up-keep of my computer (which is now an Apple mac), and most of all, incentive to carry on developing the program.

You can view the satellite positions on a 2D map of the world, which you can zoom in on or centre on the satellite.


You can also view the satellites in a 3D view to get a proper perspective of where they are.


You can also predict weeks in advance when they are due to pass over any place on earth.

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