For schools, colleges & education centres
Orbitale is a real-time 3D Solar System that runs in a web browser. Real planetary positions, guided missions, a walk-through International Space Station and a “What if?” lab — designed for the screen at the front of your classroom.
The challenge
A textbook diagram can’t show the Moon moving, the seasons turning or how empty space really is. A planetarium trip is rare, and a telescope only works on clear nights.
The solution
So students don’t just read about space. They go there — together, at the pace of your lesson.
From diagram to universe
This is how most students first meet the Solar System.
But the planets never stand in a line.
They travel real orbits — and this is where they are today.
This is Orbitale.
Directions around the Sun computed for today’s date by Orbitale’s own ephemeris code. Distances compressed to fit the screen.
Orbitale in numbers
bodies to explore — the Sun, eight planets, moons, dwarf worlds and the ISS
guided missions, 8–12 minutes each
“What if?” experiments
worlds you can cut open, layer by layer
largest planet-position error, measured against NASA JPL Horizons
installs, plug-ins or student logins
The experience
01 / 06 · Origins
Orbitale Origins compresses billions of years into a few cinematic minutes — from a collapsing cloud of gas to a newborn Sun and the first worlds. Pause it mid-sentence and ask the class what happens next.
A scientific visualization compressed across billions of years. Sizes and distances are not to scale.
Stars forge the ingredients of worlds. A cloud of gas and dust collapses. Our Sun is born. Dust becomes worlds.
02 / 06 · Explore
Every planet is where it really is today, calculated from published orbital elements. Speed time up to watch a year pass in seconds, or slow it down to see the ISS glide over the clouds in real time. Click any world to learn; double-click to fly there.
03 / 06 · Learn
Learning cards answer the questions students actually ask — What am I looking at? Why does it matter? — with a fun fact, real figures and a line written just for kids. Deeper science is always one tap away.
04 / 06 · Look Inside
Slice open the Sun, Earth, the Moon, Mars and Jupiter. Step from crust to inner core with real depths, temperatures and materials — and an honest note wherever the 3D view has to exaggerate a layer so you can see it.
05 / 06 · The ISS
Watch the station circle Earth every 92.7 minutes, then go inside. Built from NASA’s publicly released 3D models, the interior connects real modules — Node 1, Destiny, Columbus, Kibō and the Cupola’s seven windows — all the way to the Quest airlock. A guided station tour does the navigating while you teach.
ISS 3D model source: NASA. Orbitale is an independent educational visualization and is not endorsed by NASA.
At the Quest airlock
At the far end of the station the Quest airlock depressurises, and the hatch opens onto real footage of Earth filmed from the ISS.
Footage: NASA, “Earth Views” (Johnson Space Center, 2021).
06 / 06 · What If?
Spin Earth faster, grow the Sun, take away the Moon. Each experiment changes one variable and explains, live, what changed and what would happen — under a clear “What-if view — not real” badge, so nobody mistakes the experiment for reality.
Guided missions
Each mission sets out its learning objectives up front, walks the class through every step, and can be paused, resumed and restarted.
Explore how Earth and the Moon move, shine, and pull on each other as one connected system.
Explore the International Space Station from the outside in — how it gets its power, how it repairs itself, how astronauts sustain themselves in orbit, and what it feels like to live there.
Replay the story of our Solar System’s birth, then connect it to the Sun and Earth as they are today.
Journey beyond the planets, into the belts, swarms, and distant populations that make up most of the Solar System.
Built for the classroom
A type scale the back row can read — one click, or Shift+P.
One action clears mission progress and returns the camera and clock to the start.
Pause Origins or a mission mid-step to discuss, then pick up exactly where you left off.
Click, tap, long-press or use the keyboard — with a visible focus ring on every control.
A preflight check tunes detail to each computer, with Cinematic, Balanced and Performance profiles for older machines.
Reduced Motion calms non-essential movement while keeping the complete experience.
English and Shqip throughout, switchable at any moment.
No student accounts. Anonymous analytics only if you allow it.
One click to fill the projector.
Designed for laptops, desktops, interactive whiteboards and large tablets in landscape, with a screen of at least 1024 × 600.
Curriculum fit
Every explanation is layered: a line for younger learners first, deeper science one tap away. The same lesson works across age groups.
Honest by design
Planet positions, orbital periods, axial tilts and the Moon’s tidal lock come from real data — so what students see is what the sky is doing.
Sizes and distances are compressed so every world is visible — and Orbitale says so. Fast demo speeds and what-if views are always marked.
Positions are tested against NASA JPL Horizons reference data, inside a suite of more than 3,000 automated tests.
One platform, many worlds
Orbitale is built as a platform of explorable worlds — each one a subject students can step inside.
Live now
Explore, learn and ask "What if". Then fly to our home in space, the ISS.
A future world about how living things work.
A future world about what makes machines tick.
Public Alpha · Founding schools
Orbitale is in Public Alpha. We’re inviting a first group of schools, colleges and education centres to use it in real lessons and help shape what comes next.