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Booster Catch 2D: Flight-Path & Telemetry Console

2D side-view booster-catch console: fly a reusable Super Heavy-class booster into a tower's chopstick arms using throttle and gimbal sliders, watch a live flight-path panel plus a scrolling telemetry chart with catch-tolerance bands for vertical and lateral speed, and drag or scroll the flight panel to pan and zoom the camera.

Aerospace Engineering & Orbital Mechanics2DAdvanced60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 3D version

The 2D companion to the tower-cam version of this landing problem: a side-view flight panel shows the booster falling toward a pair of chopstick catch arms while a scrolling telemetry chart plots vertical and lateral speed against the exact ±3 m/s / ±1.5 m/s catch tolerances, so you can see numerically — not just by eye — how close you are to a clean rendezvous. Throttle and gimbal sliders drive the same rocket-equation mass model, gravity and crosswind as the 3D version; the catch-arm gap slider now visibly resizes both the on-screen capture zone and the chart's tolerance band. Drag or scroll the flight panel to pan and zoom the camera manually, or leave auto-follow on to keep the booster centered automatically.

⚙ Under the hood

2D side-view rocket landing simulator: throttle and gimbal a Super Heavy-class booster down to a chopstick catch tower, reading live vertical-speed and lateral-offset strip charts and a corridor gauge instead of a 3D camera to judge the catch.

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2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install