"When once you have tasted flight,
you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward,
for there you have been, and there you will always long to return. There shall be wings!
If the accomplishment be not for me, 'tis for some other."
- DaVinci

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The Satellite Catalog (5M text file) Crowded Skies (6.8M movie file showing all the satellites in orbit)
Excellent Satellite Information Websites: Celestrak Gunter's Space Page Space Track (Restricted Access)
See the "sky track" for the next satellites that will be passing over you!
Once there, after entering Zip Code, click on the button, then "Control" then select "All Satellites".
Watch a spectacular video of the re-entry of a defunct ESA Transfer Vehicle.

This is how satellites die.