Project Kessler-X is an autonomous, high-performance orbital mechanics tracking and collision-prediction system. The project is designed to monitor Low Earth Orbit (LEO) space debris and predict cascading collision events—conceptually mitigating the "Kessler Syndrome" scenario where orbital debris render space travel impossible.
Devlog 3 - 6/19/2026
okay, ik its only been like 15 minutes since my last devlog but i GOT to show yall my finished base engine file and the results it gave me, its beautiful
Devlog 3 - 6/19/2026
alrighty, today was a pretty packed day, finished orbital math and started filtering down on the raw csv data i pulled in from celestrak and now working on a base engine and am building a parser to convert a lot of the data in the original csvs from celestrak from degrees to radians to later on pass through to my models cuz models work better with radians
had a bit of a mess with python module errors but got it sorted out by fixing the import paths and running things as modules from the root folder. now the whole project is super clean and molded well. main.py is the conductor, data_fetcher gets the data, orbital_math does the physics, and the base engine loops through all the files
also upgraded the backend to use pandas instead of trying to split text strings by hand. it automatically drops any rows missing data so the math doesnt break. then it passes the columns through the radian formulas and calculates the semi-major axis
the biggest win is that it fully hooks up to the 3d formulas now. the engine loops through every single csv file in the folder and spits out clean X, Y, Z spatial coordinates for thousands of satellites all at once. the pipeline is officially alive and ready for the ai models next.
Devlog 2 - 6/18/2026
sorry i havent been able to devlog yesterday, school just ended for me and i got my finals over with so i will be doing more consistent devlogs but so far, i have finished my data_fetcher.py and started to work on my orbital trajectory math calculator.
the screenshot is a little confirmation of data_fetcher.py working!
ik this was a short devlog but there will be more to come, till then, onward!
Devlog 1 - 6/16/2026
hi ppl! this is my first devlog of project kessler, essentially, project kessler is… WAIT! before i tell you, i want you to imagine the scenario below ⬇️
‘Imagine low Earth orbit (where the International Space Station and thousands of satellites live) getting incredibly crowded. If two large satellites collide, they don’t just stop working; they shatter into thousands of tiny, razor-sharp pieces of space junk traveling at over 17,500 miles per hour.’
sounds terrible right? project kessler is a collision avoidance and trajectory predictor for those low and high orbit objects so we dont have another iridum or cosmos collision event in space (here is source for those 2 events if your curious: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20100002023)
to get back to the point of my devlog, so far i have extracted satellite epoch positional data from CelesTrak and am currently working on a data fetcher to get the most accurate data for my project as i will have to train a machine learning data model on that data to make predictions and yeah thats lwk it for todays devlog, feel free to follow if this topic interests you!
till the next time, onward.
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