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Geostationary Slot Coordination Simulator

Place satellites around the geostationary ring and see why the Outer Space Treaty's silence on orbital traffic matters: pack them closer than the ITU coordination angle and ground-antenna interference (carrier-to-interference ratio) collapses.

Space & Astronomy3DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 2D version
space-governance ↗ Open standalone

The 1967 Outer Space Treaty bans national sovereignty claims over the geostationary belt but never says who gets to park a satellite where — that gap was filled by ITU coordination procedure, built around a single quantity: the angular separation between neighboring satellites. This simulator places operators around a real-scale geostationary ring (42,164 km radius, one Earth-day period) and computes the carrier-to-interference ratio a ground dish would see between every pair, using the ITU-R S.580 reference antenna pattern. File slots at the standard 2° coordination arc and the ring stays clean; squeeze in an uncoordinated "paper satellite" and watch a pair's C/I collapse below the threshold operators need for a usable downlink.

⚙ Under the hood

Place satellites around a real-scale geostationary ring and watch ITU coordination in action: satellites spaced at the standard 2-degree arc stay clear, but squeeze in an uncoordinated "paper satellite" and the carrier-to-interference ratio between neighbors collapses below the usable threshold.

space lawgeostationary orbitITU coordinationsatellite interferenceorbital mechanicsspace governance

3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install

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