Heimdall
See the real-time telemetry for objects in Earth's orbit
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See the real-time telemetry for objects in Earth's orbit
100 followers
Space is getting crowded—fast. By 2030, over 100,000 satellites will orbit Earth alongside millions of debris fragments. Heimdall is a real-time satellite intelligence platform that aggregates, processes, and renders telemetry for every public traceable object in Earth's sphere of influence—accessible anytime, anywhere.
Heimdall
👋 Hi Product Hunt!
I'm Kevin, one of the founding engineers at Heimdall. This is our team's first official launch, and we couldn't be more excited to share it.
We built Heimdall because we believe space has a problem that isn't talked about enough. Space is getting crowded. By 2030, over 100,000 active satellites are projected to orbit Earth, up from just 3,000 in 2020. As congestion grows, two questions become critical: how do we prevent satellite collisions, and how do we comprehensively track everything up there?
We believe the answer starts with giving people the right tools. Our vision is a satellite observability platform, one that gives operators complete, real-time insight into their assets and the environment around them. Today we are laying the foundation: a satellite intelligence platform that aggregates, processes, and renders the full public space catalog in real time. We are still early in our journey, but today we are excited to offer:
• Real time satellite position tracking using TLE data
• Aggregation of satellite information from all major public sources
• Comprehensive satellite search and filtering
• In depth 3D visualization of orbital positions and predicted paths.
We'd love your feedback. What data/features would you like to see? We're building this in the open and your input shapes the roadmap.
Thanks for checking us out! 🛰️
This is so cool. I would like to reorientate the earth based on input from the arrow keys. I enjoy seeing the path of each of the objects in orbit.
Heimdall
@jaredepicpower Hey Jared, thanks for trying out Heimdall! For sure I will make sure that gets implemented. Really appreciate the feedback!
I love the idea of a “Flightradar for space.” Congrats 🚀
Maybe you could take some inspiration from the Flightradar app itself. When a user clicks on a specific satellite, showing a photo or a simple visual model of it could make the details panel more visually appealing and easier to explore – assuming satellites actually differ visually 😅
Heimdall
@teddyberzatto Thanks for the feedback! Yeah, its something we've considered for our roadmap and plan to add in the near future. We want to do it in a way that looks clean and fits our design scheme. Appreciate you for checking us out!
Swytchcode
Really amazing and amazed to see how crowded the space is. Is this a real-time data feed?
Heimdall
@chilarai The data feed on the landing page is merely a visualization and not real-time :). Thanks for checking it out!
Heimdall
@chilarai Hey thanks for checking out Heimdall, currently the dashboard itself is updating satellite positions in real time using the latest available TLE data we are receiving.
Swytchcode
@ycheng_li thats nice. wonderful
How are you validating real user behavior at Heimdall right now?
Heimdall
@danilpond Hey there, we’re using PostHog to track user interactions and analyze session duration and repeated visits to distinguish casual curiosity from meaningful engagement. We also track which features are actively used and which satellite datasets create the most interest, hopefully identify what users actually find valuable in the platform.
Heimdall
@danilpond Hi Danil! Thanks for the comment. We have analytics hooked up across our stack, using tools like Posthog, Sentry, and Grafana for user insights, error monitoring, and backend observability.
Curious about your plans to expand into a marketplace for third-party data layers or analytics. Very cool product idea - and would be fascinating to learn more about how you can scale data collection to be even more real-time