Sachin Kamdar

Every satellite that photographed your house this week

Screenshot of watched.earth

Watched.earth is a simple tool: type in any place on Earth and it shows every satellite that passed over it in the last seven days, along with the actual pictures they took.

I tried my house first, obviously. It was something like 264 satellites in a single week. Crazy. I knew in the abstract that there's a lot of imaging capacity in orbit, but seeing a count makes it seem overkill.

That number is only going to grow exponentially as launches get cheaper and more companies put sensors up there.

Read it at watched.earth →