
Zoom in close on where you live, pick your favorite hemisphere, or pick somewhere else beautiful!
SATELITE DOWNLINK FULL
Fixed rendering issues causing a mismatched background color between full disk images and the rest of your desktop.Fixed an issue that was causing non-active cropped images to be downloaded more frequently than needed.Added an option in the Settings dropdown to have the Downlink window shown or hidden on launch.Added Shuffle Mode, which randomly selects a view on each refresh interval.Fixed background color mismatch between imagery and desktop.If you notice a lot of files being cached in the directory, read this. It downloads a configuration file from this website, and images from and.
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If you’re looking for a press kit complete with logos and screenshots, you can download one here (that’s a 70 MB zip file).ĭownlink does not collect or store any data. If you need help, take a look at the help documentation. If and when one is available, it’ll be in the app. Other Views, Europe, & Africa?Īs new sources come online, they’ll be added to the app as fast as possible.Īs of yet, though, I haven’t been able to find an open and available data source for Europe and/or Africa with the image quality and refresh frequency needed.

If you enjoy my work on Downlink, I also write and podcast about all things space over at Main Engine Cut Off.


If you’d like to use the sources Downlink is built on top of, here is the file pointing to those resources. Thanks to NASA, NOAA, JMA, Lockheed Martin, Harris Corporation, ULA, MHI, and everyone else who designed, built, launched, and operate GOES-16, GOES-17, and Himawari-8. You can even create your own views-zoom in close on where you live, pick your favorite hemisphere, or pick somewhere else beautiful! Thank You Watch sunlight and weather patterns move across Earth throughout the day, and bask in the glory of our blue marble in real time.Įvery 20 minutes (or every hour, you pick), Downlink updates your desktop background with the freshest images of Earth.Ĭhoose from different views of Earth, from close ups of the tropics, to the continental US, to the absolutely stunning full disk images from 3 different geostationary satellites. Downlink Real-time satellite imagery on your desktop.
