CST — Central Time (America/Chicago) as Baseline — Live Constellation
All clocks use CST (America/Chicago). 30 satellites orbit with variable speed. Engine has
watchdog + fallback so the page keeps running even if the browser throttles.
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Local CST (America/Chicago)
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Elapsed since CST midnight
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Comparison drift rates
GEO: +45 μs/day · GPS (net): +38 μs/day
Nominal orbital radius
r ≈ 26,571 km (Earth center → GPS satellite)
Engine
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Watchdog
armed
How the phase numbers should look
Δns GPS ranges from ~0 ns (at CST midnight) to ~38,000 ns (before next midnight).
Δns GEO ranges from ~0 ns to ~45,000 ns across the CST day.
If you see ~6× those values, it means a phase was accidentally applied more than once (fixed here).
Globe — satellites orbiting (illustrative)
Satellites — moving; Angle & Speed vary — all clocks in CST