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About ExoAtlas

The Solar System, Made Interactive.

ExoAtlas is a web-based space-visualization platform that turns live scientific data from NASA, the U.S. Space Force, and the IAU Minor Planet Center into tools anyone can use from your phone, in your browser, for free.

Why We Exist

Our Mission and Purpose

To make the Solar System and humanity's growing footprint within it, visible, understandable, and useful. We built ExoAtlas to bridge the gap between raw orbital data and intuitive tools because we believe that awareness of our space environment is the first step. By empowering people to learn from, plan with, and build upon this knowledge, we are fostering the knowledge needed to protect Earth today while developing the framework for an interplanetary tomorrow.

How it's built

An Independent, First-Principles Project

ExoAtlas is built and maintained by a small team with backgrounds in astrodynamics. Rather than stitching together off-the-shelf widgets, its orbital mechanics, ephemerides, and visualizations are implemented from first principles — the same physics used for mission planning, recomputed live in your browser. The platform deliberately avoids heavy front-end frameworks and third-party tracking SDKs, so pages stay fast, lightweight, and privacy-respecting. Live data is pulled directly from primary scientific sources — NASA JPL, the U.S. Space Force, and the IAU Minor Planet Center — and refreshed on automated schedules. It’s an independent project, shipped in public and improved continuously based on what the community asks for.

Where we're going

Our Development Roadmap

ExoAtlas grows in public. Here's a high-level view of what's shipping, what's next, and what's on the horizon.

Now

Available Today

  • ExoAtlas Explorer (3D Solar System real-time visualizer)
  • ExoAtlas Orbit Visualizer and Simulation Engine
  • Tonight's Sky (Weather, Sky Chart, and Celestial Target List)
  • Launch Calendar and Neighborhood Watch (close approaches)
  • Developer REST API & ExoAtlas Pro subscription
Next

Shipping Soon

  • Expanded Session Planner for astrophotographers
  • Deeper cislunar & lunar-surface tooling for Artemis-era missions
  • Embeddable widgets for educators and planetariums
  • Mobile-optimized experiences across the platform
  • Richer object pages with mission history & imagery
Future

On the horizon

  • Interplanetary mission spacecraft tracking and simulation
  • Space weather monitoring and prediction
  • Citizen science initiatives
  • Native apps for mobile/tablets and large-format displays
  • Community contributions and open observation logs
How we stay accurate

Powered by Trusted Scientific Sources

NASA JPL Horizons
IAU Minor Planet Center
U.S. Space Force
NOAA Public Weather Services

Every dataset on ExoAtlas comes from publicly-available scientific archives — never scraped from third parties. Planetary and small-body positions are derived from NASA JPL Horizons; asteroid and comet orbits track the IAU Minor Planet Center; satellite and debris states come from U.S. Space Force tracking; and observing conditions use NOAA public weather services. Each feed is ingested on its own automated cadence — from minutes for fast-moving launch and close-approach data to daily or weekly for slowly-evolving orbital catalogs — and every figure on the site carries a freshness indicator so you always know exactly how current it is. When a source is delayed or unavailable, ExoAtlas shows the last verified value rather than guessing.

Questions, feedback, or ideas?

ExoAtlas is shaped by the people who use it. If you’ve found a bug, want a feature, or just want to say hello, we’d love to hear from you.