[OC] I built a 3D globe that visualises global infrastructure in real time — satellites, aircraft, ships, undersea cables, gas pipelines, internet outages, wildfires, earthquakes, volcanoes and more

Solo project, built in about 5 days. I wanted one place to see the physical and digital infrastructure of the world moving in real time — not a conflict tracker, not a news feed, just the systems that keep everything running.

What's live right now:

– ~25,000 satellites (TLE-based, Cesium-rendered orbits)

– Live commercial & military aircraft (OpenSky Network)

– Vessel traffic (AISStream)

– Fire hotspots (NASA FIRMS)

– Active volcanoes & eruptions (Smithsonian GVP)

– Earthquakes (USGS)

– Active cyclones (RAMMB/SLIDER)

– Internet outages (IODA)

– Submarine cables & landing points

– Gas pipeline network

– GPS jamming/spoofing zones

– Airspace restrictions & TFRs

– Internet Freedom Index by country

Built with: Cesium.js (globe), PostgreSQL + PostGIS, Python parsers for each data source, FastAPI backend.

Data sources: NASA, USGS, OpenSky Network, IODA (Georgia Tech), Smithsonian GVP, RAMMB, and various open government datasets.

Happy to answer questions