How it works

Real satellites. A rendered camera. One of them assigned to you.

The sky is real. Every point on the globe is a real, active satellite from CelesTrak's public catalogue (16,697 right now, 11,127 of them Starlink), moving along its real orbit. Orbits are computed with SGP4, the model the catalogue's elements are made for, in your browser. Our server downloads the elements from CelesTrak at most every 6 hours and every page reads our copy.
Every holder has one. Hold at least 1,000 $SKYLOCK and your wallet is assigned one real satellite, unique to you, for as long as you hold. The top holders fly the flagships by rank: #1 the ISS, #2 Tiangong, #3 Hubble, then Vanguard 1 (launched 1958), GOES-19, Landsat 9 and the rest of a list of 30. Everybody else gets a satellite picked from their wallet address: a hash into the catalogue, skipping the ones already taken. Sell everything and it is decommissioned: it fades out, and 24 hours later the slot is free again. Buy back before then and it is yours again.
Every buy locks one. Each buy locks onto a real satellite at that second: the buyer's own, or a flagship for a big buy (1 SOL and up; 5 SOL and up for the ISS, Tiangong or Hubble). Locks play one at a time, a few seconds apart, for everyone watching, with where it is, how high, how fast and what is below. Each lock gets its own page and share card.
The cams. Every holder's satellite shows its "cam" on the Earth: a thin cone of light down to the patch of ground it is over. The Sat cam on your satellite's page is our rendering of the Earth from its real position and altitude. "Today below you" is real imagery of the ground under it from NASA GIBS (VIIRS and MODIS, taken on the date shown, usually today or yesterday).
Up close. When the camera rides with a satellite (yours, a locked one, one you click) it flies in to a 3D model of it at true scale, a few hundred metres away (a few metres for a CubeSat), with the Earth below lit as it is at that second. The ISS and Hubble are NASA's own 3D models. Every other satellite gets a model of its type, picked from its catalogue name and orbit: Starlink, OneWeb, navigation (GPS, Galileo, GLONASS, BeiDou), geostationary communications and weather, Earth observation, Tiangong, Iridium, CubeSats, and a generic one. Satellites within about 200 km of it are drawn too, at their real distance: most are a few pixels, which is honest.

What "yours" means, plainly

"Yours" means assigned to your wallet on this website, and nothing else. Nobody here owns, controls, operates or talks to any satellite. The satellites' operators (NASA, SpaceX, ESA, CMSA and the rest) have nothing to do with this coin and do not endorse it. The ISS is not for sale.

What is real and what is rendered

Real: the satellites, their names, catalogue numbers and orbits; where each one is at every second; the Sun and Earth's shadow; the country or ocean below; the next pass over a city; NASA's imagery of the ground and its date.
Rendered: the globe, the light cones and footprints, the Sat cam and the 3D models. They are drawings from real positions, not pictures taken by the satellites or of them.
Estimated: how a satellite is turned (its attitude). Catalogues give positions, not orientations, so we use each type's usual rule: pointed at the Earth and along its path, solar arrays turned to face the Sun; navigation satellites yaw to keep their arrays square to the Sun; Hubble holds a target in the sky with its arrays to the Sun. The models of types are representative, not the exact spacecraft (except NASA's ISS and Hubble). The light on them is real: the Sun from where it really is, the Earth's shadow, and the Earth's own glow below.
Written: each satellite's one-line description, marked AI when written once by Claude from the catalogue's facts, or Catalogue when put together from the catalogue alone.

Accuracy

SGP4 from fresh elements places a low satellite within about a kilometre, drifting a few kilometres a day as the elements age; the page shows how old they are. Satellites change orbits, and a few each week re-enter. A holder whose satellite leaves the catalogue gets the next free one.

Preview

Until the coin exists the site runs a preview: holders and buys are simulated and marked PREVIEW. The satellites are real.

What this is not

Not an investment, no yield, no promise. $SKYLOCK is a memecoin.