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🚀 Solar System Tour Planner: 2D Map

Plan a trip around the Solar System: click a planet to choose your destination, pick a ship speed and watch the straight-line flight meet a moving world. See trip time, light delay, gravity and your weight on arrival.

Space Explorers2DEasy60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 3D version

Details

CategorySpace Explorers

RenderingCanvas 2D

DifficultyEasy

Target FPS60

ControlsClick a planet to set the destination or origin; sliders for ship speed (10 km/s to 98% of light speed), time speed, traveller mass, distance compression and planet size; Launch ship, Jump to best launch, pause and +10 days; seven trip presets; drag to pan, wheel or pinch to zoom; click the launch-window graph to travel in time.

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⚙ Under the hood

Top-down interactive map of the Solar System for planning a trip: click a planet to choose the destination, set the ship speed and watch a straight-line flight meet a moving world, with trip time, light delay, gravity, your weight on arrival and a launch-window graph.

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