Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to The Orbital Index hits issue #30
Curated space news and links. Weekly, brief, and technical.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. The Orbital Index hits issue #30 launched in 2019; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Curated space news and links. Weekly, brief, and technical.
2019 · orbitalindex.com · its alternatives →
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Curated space news and links. Weekly, brief, and technical.
2019 · orbitalindex.com · its alternatives →
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Gravity by Orbit▲262A free magazine about building & scaling communities
2022 · orbit.love · its alternatives →
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Atlas of Spacefree▲770Hello HN! Sharing a recent side project of mine, the Atlas of Space, that I built out to explore the Solar System. As a long-time space nerd, I realized recently that I didn't have a good intuition on the scale, speed, and relative orientation of the celestial bodies around us. So over the break I built out a kind of spatial Wikipedia to click around and learn about planets, moons, asteroids, and other bodies orbiting the Sun. The physics is all simulated in the browser using simple Newtonian mechanics. There's a lot left to do from here, including modeling objects in non-Keplerian orbits…
2025 · atlasof.space · its alternatives →
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Space Probes▲81A catalog of space probes at the Moon and beyond
2015 · spaceprob.es · its alternatives →
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Hello HN! My partner and I just published issue #5 of The Orbital Index, our brief & technical weekly newsletter about space science and the space industry, and so we've taken the project out of beta. The process of finding a voice and fine tuning the level of technical detail is ongoing, but we feel like we've arrived at something succinct, interesting, and technical, in a large part because of the great feedback that we have received from HN subscribers from our last Show HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19227434) a month ago. Here's our website, where you can signup…
2019 · its alternatives →
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🛰️🚀A list of awesome space-related packages and resources maintained by The Orbital Index - orbitalindex/awesome-space
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Spatium▲182Hi there, humans! I'm excited to announce Spatium! I'm a big fan of any topic related to our universe. I'm also a developer, so I've put these things together and I built this new tab Chrome Extension for space lovers, astronomy fans, and science geeks like me. If you enjoyed it, please spread some love <3 FEATURES • Space images • Every day, get a fascinating image of our universe. Enjoy pictures of stars, planets, moons, galaxies, nebulae, comets and more right on your browser tab. • Sun Widget • Find out when the sunrise, sunset, first and last light times will be precisely at your…
2021 · spatium.earth · its alternatives →
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PixelSpace▲68A tediously accurate scale model of the solar system
2014 · joshworth.com · its alternatives →
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A weekly digest of all things enterprise technology
2015 · work-bench.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I made Orbit, an iOS app that allows you to see the satellites, planets, and constellations above you in AR, on a 2D map, and on a 3D globe. The app includes more than 15,000 objects tracked by CelesTrack, together with their pass predictions, descriptions, and detailed orbital data. A searchable catalog of all objects is also available, as well as a built-in chatbot designed to answer any space-related questions you might have. This is my first published iOS app, so any feedback is greatly appreciated! App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6772174570
Jul 2026 · nagylukas.github.io · its alternatives →
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The past and the future of space exploration.
2015 · waitbutwhy.com · its alternatives →
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Orbital 1K▲97Launch a $1K project + community in four weeks
2015 · orbitalnyc.com · its alternatives →
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A curated newsletter of everything interesting in tech
2015 · radarnewsletter.weebly.com · its alternatives →
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