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🛰️ Space Navigation: 2D Solar System Maneuver Planner

Interactive top-down solar system navigator: drag a burn handle to plan a maneuver, see the predicted trajectory and closest approach to a target planet, run Hohmann transfers and gravity assists, and fly the spacecraft under the Sun and planets' gravity.

Space & Astronomy2DAdvanced60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 3D version

Details

CategorySpace & Astronomy

RenderingCanvas 2D

DifficultyAdvanced

Target FPS60

ControlsDrag the yellow burn handle (prograde and radial) or use sliders including out-of-plane burn; click a planet to target it; scenario presets for Mars, Venus, Mercury and Jupiter transfers and a Jupiter flyby, time warp, prediction horizon, planet-gravity toggle, optimize-aim button, wheel/pinch zoom and pan.

space navigationHohmann transfergravity assistorbital mechanicsdelta-vsolar system

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⚙ Under the hood

space navigationHohmann transfergravity assistorbital mechanicsdelta-vsolar system

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