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The solar system, today

Real positions of the planets for right now, the journey through my chapters, and the belt. Pick a destination on the right, or drag the map.

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Mars and Earth right now

Earth–Mars1.635au244.6 million km

Light time13 min 36 sone way, Mars → Earth

Mars window61daysidealised departure 5 Dec 2026 · in 61 days

Opposition137days19 Feb 2027, Mars closest and brightest

No Starship goes to Mars this window; the next chance is late 2028. NASA's twin ESCAPADE orbiters, with Rocket Lab spacecraft, leave for Mars in November.

Readable scale: distances are compressed so Neptune fits on the screen.

Worlds in the belt

01SpaceXMothership and launch tower
02Hosted AIA power-grid station of GPU cells
03BraiveCrew habitat and life support
04Relativity SpaceA Mars-bound science orbiter and its relay
05North PropulsionThrusters for the transfer burn
06xAIA data-centre moon orbiting SpaceX
07AndurilA fortified shipyard, linked into one network
08GroqA relay beacon; the signal has already left
09EreborA gold vault inside a metal asteroid
11Rocket LabThe portfolio hardware actually going to Mars this window

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JPL approximate planetary positions · asteroid belt from JPL SBDB · positions for 2026-10-05

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