Different tracking engine
Earth satellites use CelesTrak orbital elements and SGP4. Interplanetary spacecraft use NASA/JPL Horizons vectors because TLE/SGP4 is not the correct model for deep-space trajectories.
Explore Voyager, JWST and active interplanetary missions using NASA/JPL Horizons ephemerides. Deep-space spacecraft are kept separate from Earth-orbit SGP4 tracking.
The most distant human-made spacecraft, continuing its interstellar mission beyond the heliopause.
The only spacecraft to have visited Uranus and Neptune, now continuing through interstellar space.
A large infrared observatory operating in a halo orbit around the Sun–Earth L2 region.
The Pluto and Kuiper Belt mission continuing through the outer solar system.
A solar mission repeatedly flying through the Sun’s outer corona to study the solar wind and energetic particles.
A solar observatory studying the Sun and heliosphere, including high-latitude views of the solar poles.
A joint ESA/JAXA mission in its Mercury arrival phase, designed to study the innermost planet.
The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer is travelling to the Jupiter system to study Ganymede, Callisto and Europa.
A mission travelling to Jupiter for repeated close flybys of Europa.
A multi-target mission to primitive asteroids, including Jupiter’s Trojan populations.
A mission travelling to the metal-rich asteroid Psyche in the main asteroid belt.
ESA’s planetary-defence mission travelling to survey the Didymos binary asteroid system after the DART impact.
Earth satellites use CelesTrak orbital elements and SGP4. Interplanetary spacecraft use NASA/JPL Horizons vectors because TLE/SGP4 is not the correct model for deep-space trajectories.
Deep-space coordinates are retrieved server-side and cached to reduce load. Distances and vectors are presented as ephemeris-derived values, not direct spacecraft telemetry.
The interactive scene uses a compressed visual scale so nearby and extremely distant missions can be viewed on one screen. Numeric distances remain the authoritative values.