Credits & Attributions
Earth from a Space Station
Last updated: February 16, 2026
Earth Imagery
Moon Imagery
- NASA CGI Moon Kit — lunar surface texture from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) color map. NASA imagery is in the public domain.
Orbital Data
- Space-Track.org — Orbit Mean-Elements Message (OMM) data for the ISS and CSS, provided by the 18th Space Defense Squadron, U.S. Space Command. USSPACECOM provides blanket approval for redistribution of basic SSA data with appropriate citation.
Star Catalog
- HYG Star Database (v4.2) — star positions and magnitudes for the naked-eye starfield (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Geographic & Geopolitical Data
- United Nations Clear Map — country boundaries, international border lines, and country polygons. Produced by United Nations Geospatial (UNCLASSIFIED), © UNITED NATIONS 2018.
- Flanders Marine Institute (2018). IHO Sea Areas, version 3. Available online at marineregions.org. doi:10.14284/323
- HydroLAKES — Messager, M.L., Lehner, B., Grill, G., Nedeva, I., Schmitt, O. (2016). Estimating the volume and age of water stored in global lakes using a geo-statistical approach. Nature Communications, 7: 13603. doi:10.1038/ncomms13603
- Timezone Boundary Builder — IANA timezone boundaries (MIT License).
- flagcdn.com — country flag images (public domain).
- Wikipedia — city population data and classifications used in point-of-interest labels (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Libraries
- Three.js — 3D rendering and WebXR support (MIT License).
- satellite.js — SGP4 orbital propagation (MIT License).
- troika-three-text — SDF text rendering for VR (MIT License).
- Vite — build tool (MIT License).
Infrastructure
- Cloudflare — application hosting (Pages), asset storage and delivery (R2), and orbital data caching (Workers).
- KTX-Software — GPU texture compression tooling by the Khronos Group.
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