This is another cool website from NASA: Satellite Tracking
If you click on the button saying "J-TRACK 3D" a window will pop up showing the earth with hundreds of white dots at various positions. Clicking on each of these will show the name of the satelite and its orbit around the earth. To find out more about the satellite you can go to "View Satellite Position" though this just gives you a whole bunch of numbers relating to how far away it is and how fast it is going. I have not worked out how to use the site to give any information about what the satellite is actually up to. Though, if you got to "Satellite Select" you can choose satellites on the basis of their origin and purpose which I suppose is good enough...
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