I made a site where you can travel in space in your browser

In plain words

This is a browser-based space exploration site built with React Three Fiber and Three.js. Users can navigate through 3D space and interact with celestial bodies and models like the International Space Station. The site is designed for web browsers that support WebGL2.0 and works best on desktop displays. It functions as a technical demonstration of 3D rendering capabilities in the browser using modern JavaScript libraries.

written from the facts on this page · September 2026

From the sources

In the maker’s words, at launch

I made this site using R3F (https://github.com/pmndrs/react-three-fiber), a React renderer for 3JS (https://threejs.org/). The celestial bodies are Three.JS meshes. I used loaders (namely 'useLoader' from R3F and 'GLTFLoader' from 3JS) to import 3D models, such as International…

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