ISU research project on Space Traffic Management:
http://www.isunet.edu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=374&Itemid=251
• NASA Ames has a research project based off of this for a year (Thx to Will Marshall for link!)
How Much Junk Orbits Around the Earth?
http://flowingdata.com/2009/02/23/how-much-junk-orbits-around-the-earth/
• "The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) tracks anything in orbit that's bigger than a softball and then disseminates that information in the form of an orbit descriptor called a Two Line Element (TLE). Matthew Kozak visualizes this data on an interactive 3D globe. It's implemented in Processing, and maybe best of all, the source code is available."
changed March 19, 2009