Updates

New features, improvements and fixes added to Satelog, with dates.

• 2026-10-24 The catalog and map now include about 9,000 more small near-Earth asteroids, plus famous objects such as Apophis, Bennu, Ryugu, Itokawa, 2024 YR4, Pluto, Eris, Sedna and Arrokoth.
• 2026-10-24 Catalog and information pages use a calmer neutral black background instead of dark blue.
• 2026-10-24 Catalog filter buttons no longer squeeze into several lines on tablets, the three catalog tabs fit on phones, and a search puts the best name match first.
• 2026-10-24 A Close approaches page lists the asteroids and comets passing closest to Earth in the next year, with date, distance in lunar distances, speed and size.
• 2026-10-24 The catalog now covers the whole Solar System: planets, moons, spacecraft and 36,000 asteroids and comets, with filters by what they orbit, year of discovery, size and upcoming close approach, plus an Everything view.
• 2026-10-24 Keep orbit now acts on the object whose card is open, and the side panel highlights that object, even when you add orbits with Shift or a second click.
• 2026-10-24 Spacecraft around the Moon, Mars and Jupiter now use the same 3D satellite model as satellites around Earth instead of a yellow square.
• 2026-10-24 A Launches page lists upcoming rocket launches and a re-entry watch of the objects in the lowest orbits, in all eight languages.
• 2026-10-24 A free embeddable ISS tracker widget shows the live position and ground track of the station on any website.
• 2026-10-24 Nereid, the eccentric moon of Neptune, joins the map with its true stretched orbit.
• 2026-10-24 Satellites in high, slow orbits such as geostationary ones now show their path in space when selected, instead of a single point.
• 2026-10-24 On touch screens, tap with two fingers to keep the selected orbit and add more.
• 2026-10-24 Comet cards show the year of discovery for many more numbered periodic comets.
• 2026-10-24 Moon cards opened from a link no longer show a distance of 0 km from Earth, and links to a body wait longer for the 3D map on slow devices.
• 2026-10-24 A Keep orbit button on object cards lets you compare several orbits without a keyboard (also on phones), with an Orbits kept counter and a Clear button.
• 2026-10-24 Orbit lines now show only for what you select: click an object to see its orbit and hold Shift to add more objects. The show-all-orbits button is gone.
• 2026-10-24 Clicking a satellite dot no longer selects a small body that happens to lie behind it.
• 2026-10-24 Fourteen more moons: Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Dione, Rhea, Titan and Iapetus of Saturn, Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania and Oberon of Uranus, Triton and Proteus of Neptune, each with its own page.
• 2026-10-24 A Display section in the side panel switches planet orbits and labels on and off.
• 2026-10-24 Copy a link to your tracked list and open it on another device, and jump to a tracked body from the body menu.
• 2026-10-24 Asteroid and comet cards show the year of discovery, and the Tonight view uses precession, phase and planet brightness.
• 2026-10-24 Track asteroids, comets and planets: a Track button on their cards lists them in the Solar System panel with the closest approach to Earth, the next comet perihelion, whether they are up tonight and a calendar file, and flags when their orbit data is updated.
• 2026-10-24 The Show on the 3D map button on a body page now opens the map and flies to that body.
• 2026-10-24 Country names in the catalog and on object pages link to the country page.
• 2026-10-24 Near-Earth asteroids now show their true minimum distance to Earth's orbit, and the camera shows the planet behind a spacecraft you select.
• 2026-10-24 Asteroid, comet and spacecraft cards now show perihelion, aphelion, inclination, absolute magnitude, the next perihelion of comets, how close a near-Earth asteroid gets to Earth's orbit, launch year and agency of spacecraft, a close button and a link to the body page.
• 2026-10-24 In the Solar System view you can now list and fly to every spacecraft, and time can run at 1 hour, 1 day or 30 days per second to watch planets move.
• 2026-10-24 Choosing a moon, planet or spacecraft in the side panel opens its card, and on phones the panel folds away so the map stays visible.
• 2026-10-24 Overlapping planet and spacecraft labels are hidden, and Earth-only buttons are hidden when you look at other bodies.
• 2026-10-24 The first click on an asteroid or comet now shows its name, Escape closes a card without flying to Earth, and spacecraft buttons no longer fly to Earth while spacecraft are hidden.
• 2026-10-24 Comet cards no longer show an invented diameter, and estimated asteroid sizes are marked as estimates.
• 2026-10-23 A page for each country (for example /country/spain) with its satellites, rocket bodies and space debris, newest satellites and links to the map and the catalog.
• 2026-10-23 Choosing a country in the catalog now also finds its space debris, not only its active satellites and rocket bodies.
• 2026-10-23 The side panel now follows what you are looking at: pick Earth, the Moon, Mars, Jupiter or the whole Solar System and it shows that body's moons and what orbits it.
• 2026-10-23 When zoomed far out, the Sun and planets shrink so the Sun no longer covers the inner planets.
• 2026-10-23 A new Solar System section in the side panel turns distant asteroids, near-Earth asteroids, comets and spacecraft on and off separately.
• 2026-10-23 The Sun is drawn larger, and its glow now fades out smoothly.
• 2026-10-23 The Sun now has a larger, brighter glow.
• 2026-10-23 Background stars are now thin and faint, so they no longer look like planets or get in the way of them.
• 2026-10-23 A new Updates page lists what has changed on Satelog, with dates.
• 2026-10-23 The About page now matches the rest of the site, works in every language address (for example /es/about) and covers the Solar System.
• 2026-10-23 Solar System bodies: a table of about 36,000 planets, moons, asteroids, comets and spacecraft at /bodies, and a page for each body.
• 2026-10-23 Click a planet, moon, asteroid, comet or spacecraft to see an info card with its size, distance, orbital period and more.
• 2026-10-23 Spacecraft around Mars, Jupiter and the Moon (Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Mars Express, Juno, LRO and others), with hover, click and a pulsing orbit.
• 2026-10-23 The map now opens with all active satellites and orbit lines off.
• 2026-10-23 Satellites, planets, labels and orbit lines now fade in and out smoothly as you zoom, instead of switching on and off.
• 2026-10-23 The old rayed Sun is replaced by the real Sun, and planets are dimmer near Earth so they no longer compete with satellites.
• 2026-10-22 About 36,000 asteroids and comets on the map. Click one to see its orbit with a pulse, and zoom in to see a 3D rock.
• 2026-10-22 The real Sun and planets are visible in the sky while you rotate the globe around Earth.
• 2026-10-22 Hover highlights planets and the Moon; click the Moon from far away to focus on it and see its orbit around Earth.
• 2026-10-22 Planet textures load in steps (small, medium, full size) and are released again when you zoom out.
• 2026-10-22 Satellite calculations pause while satellites are hidden, saving battery and processing power.
• 2026-10-22 Clicking Earth after zooming out now flies back to it.
• 2026-10-22 Planet labels no longer jitter while the camera follows a planet.
• 2026-10-22 Earth is now visible as a blue dot when you are far away.
• 2026-10-21 Zoom out from Earth to Neptune: planets, the Sun, Saturn's rings and the moons of Mars and Jupiter, with real textures. Click a planet to fly to it, press E to return.
• 2026-10-21 The star background is no longer cut off in a circle when zoomed far out.