ORCA Flyer — Web v1.0

CONTROL GRID

ORCA FLYER — KEYBOARD REFERENCE · PRESS H TO TOGGLE

SIM TIME

SPACEPLAY / PAUSE

.TIME FASTER 1× → 10× → 1 MIN/S → … → 1 HR/S

,TIME SLOWER steps back down to 1× real-time

GLOBAL

CLICKSELECT OBJECT

DRAGROTATE VIEW

WHEELZOOM

/SEARCH name or NORAD ID

GZOOM TO TARGET selection, Moon, L-point — or Earth if none

DBL-CLICKSELECT + ZOOM

MMOON ON / OFF

HTHIS GUIDE

ESCCLOSE / DESELECT / EXIT MODE

FLIGHT take the helm — orbital thrust

WSPROGRADE / RETROGRADE

ADNORMAL + / −

ZXRADIAL OUT / IN

FFOLLOW CAMERA

HOLDTHRUST WHILE HELD burns propellant — watch the Δv gauge

EXPLORER the starship — arcade 6DOF

WSTHRUST FORWARD / BACK

ADSTRAFE LEFT / RIGHT

RFTHRUST UP / DOWN

QEROLL LEFT / RIGHT

DRAG↑↓←→PITCH / YAW

WHEELCHASE-CAM DISTANCE

FREECAM fly the camera — desktop parity

WASDMOVE forward / left / back / right

RFMOVE UP / DOWN

QEROLL

↑↓←→DRAGPITCH / YAW

SHIFTSPEED TIER 0.25× → 1000× of 1,000 km/s

WHEELTRIM SPEED ± fine control between tiers

FLIGHT · EXPLORER · FREECAM ENGAGE FROM THE BOTTOM CONSOLE — CLICK ANYWHERE OUTSIDE A PANEL TO DISMISS

SATRANS — SATELLITE TRANSIT ANALYSIS

TARGET LAT °

TARGET LON °

SCOPE

NAME FILTER (≤60 SATS)

WINDOW (FROM SIM TIME)

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CRITERION: LINE-OF-SIGHT, MIN ELEVATION 10.0° (ORCA RED PARITY) · SGP4/TLE PROPAGATION · COARSE 30 s SCAN, 1 s BISECTION AT AOS/LOS · NOT FOR OPERATIONAL USE

ORCA FLYER — CREDITS & LICENSES

ORCA FLYER — WEB

© 2025–2026 Cameron Cunningham. All rights reserved.
Part of the ORCA Suite. Proprietary freeware — free to use, not to modify or redistribute.

ORBITAL DATA

Two-line element sets and satellite catalog data courtesy of CelesTrak (celestrak.org), created and curated by Dr. T.S. Kelso.
Used with gratitude — CelesTrak has served the space community since 1985.

IMAGERY

Earth texture — NASA Blue Marble (NASA Earth Observatory). Public domain.
Moon texture — NASA / Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO/LROC). Public domain.
CDN fallback textures served from the three.js examples planet set.

MUSIC

Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com).
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 — creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

LIBRARIES

three.js — © three.js authors, MIT License.
satellite.js — © Shashwat Kandadai & contributors, MIT License (SGP4/SDP4 propagation).

EPHEMERIS NOTES

Moon: truncated Meeus/ELP analytic series (~0.3°). Sun: low-precision solar ephemeris. Cislunar & Lagrange-point spacecraft are SEEDED analytic approximations — plausible geometry and scale, deterministic phases — NOT live SPICE data. Not for operational use.

FLIGHT — TAKE THE HELM

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W/S — FORWARD / BACK · A/D — STRAFE · R/F — UP / DOWN
Q/E — ROLL · DRAG or ARROWS — PITCH / YAW
WHEEL — CHASE DISTANCE · SLIDER — MAYHEM

PROPULSION · ENGINE PRESETS

THRUST F5 N

SPECIFIC IMPULSE Isp65 s

ACCEL a = F/m—

BURN ṁ = F/(Isp·g₀)—

THRUST DIRECTION · HOLD KEY OR BUTTON

PHYSICS · CAMERA · SHIP (ALL SHIPS FICTIONAL)

INFINITE FUEL · SANDBOX

SPACECRAFT MASS—

FUEL—

Δv REMAINING—

TOTAL Δv BURNED0 m/s

PROPELLANT USED0.0 kg

SPEED—

ALTITUDE—

APOAPSIS—

PERIAPSIS—

SATELLITES—

CAM ALT—

CAM SPD—

REFRESH—

FPS—

LEO MEO GEO HEO

CLICK — SELECT · DBL-CLICK / G — ZOOM TO TARGET · DRAG — ROTATE · H — KEY GUIDE

NO TLE DATA AVAILABLE

The live CelesTrak fetch failed and no cached catalog, local snapshot, or prior data was found. Note: CelesTrak blocks repeat downloads of the same file within ~2 hours — if you were just rate-limited, waiting is the fix, and RETRY will extend the block. Recommended: run orca_satcat_prep.py in this folder (writes active.tle), then reload. Or download manually:

https://celestrak.org/NORAD/elements/gp.php?GROUP=active&FORMAT=tle

Save the result as active.tle (or any .txt) and select it: