This week

Your Monday morning.

Pick the materials you answer for. Each one gets a status, what changed in the last seven days and its next deadline, and the whole view turns into a seven-slide board pack you can download.

Exposure

From the mine to the missile.

Pick a system or paste a parts list. See every stage between the ground and the finished part, how concentrated each one is, and where the chain breaks first.

Stress test

Stress-test the supply.

Stop one or several materials, close the Red Sea or the Strait of Malacca, for as long as you choose. See the EU imports at stake, the systems that lose a material, the alternatives that exist today and the deadlines that fall inside the window. No price forecasts.

Assessment

Your supply chain, assessed.

List the products you make and the parts that carry these ten materials, with where they come from and how many weeks of stock you hold. You get a risk rating for every part, a stress test against real export controls and a mapping you can take to your board. It follows the supply-chain risk assessment that the EU Critical Raw Materials Act asks large manufacturers of strategic technologies to make every three years. Everything stays in this browser.

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Briefing

What moved this week.

Every Monday the atlas puts together a short summary from its own data and the week's headlines: the next deadline, heat at the plants, conflict near the supply chain, tenders, imports and the top stories. It is assembled automatically; no person or AI writes or checks it. The stories below update every few hours.

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Next deadlines

Against the EU's 2030 targets.

The Critical Raw Materials Act sets four goals for each strategic raw material. The cap that matters most: no more than 65% of EU supply from any one country outside the EU. Where one country already makes more than 65% of world output at a stage, Europe can only meet it by buying from the rest of the market or building that stage at home.

10%of EU demand mined in the EU

40%processed in the EU

25%from recycling

65%at most from one non-EU country

Signals

What the open data says now.

EU import statistics, ship counts at the chokepoints, armed-conflict records, defence tenders and research on substitutes. Each panel names its source and how fresh it is.

Rules and money

The deadline and the money.

A US rule that reaches back to the mine on 1 January 2027, the public money now flowing into supply outside China, and how buyers check where tungsten was smelted.

For teams

Take it to your board.

OreOrbit is free to use. For defence and space manufacturers who need an answer they can defend, we also work with your team directly.

Test your instinct

Guess the share.

Five questions about who controls the supply. Drag to your best guess, then see the real figure and where it comes from.

Method

Public data, dated and linked.

How to read it

Colour is the material. On the globe, a circle is a mine, a square a processing plant, a diamond a magnet plant and a ring a planned project. Sites marked "approx." sit at the town or district. Trade routes follow typical sea lanes; dashed legs travel by road or rail.

Shares are the top country's share of world output at each stage. The 3D minerals are stylized models, not scans.

Sources

How it stays current

Every morning a scheduled Claude task searches for new stories and deadlines and adds them with their links. Every Monday another writes the brief. Sites light up on the globe when they were in the news in the last 14 days.

Live layer: satellite positions are computed in your browser with the SGP4 model (satellite.js) from CelesTrak orbit data. Earthquakes come from the USGS and disaster alerts from GDACS (UN and European Commission). A scheduled task refreshes them every 3 hours.

Mine images: Copernicus Sentinel-2, found through Earth Search by Element 84 and Microsoft Planetary Computer, with one clear picture a year since 2017 for the time-lapses. Radar: Sentinel-1, terrain-corrected. Heat: Landsat 8 and 9 surface temperature. Both come through Microsoft Planetary Computer. 3D terrain: Copernicus DEM GLO-30, from TanDEM-X radar data of 2011 to 2015, so it predates recent digging. Globe imagery: NASA Blue Marble and Black Marble; clouds: yesterday's NASA VIIRS true-colour mosaic.

Since 1986: Landsat 4, 5, 7, 8 and 9 surface reflectance, about one clear picture every four years, through Microsoft Planetary Computer. Minerals: NASA's EMIT imaging spectrometer on the International Space Station, mineral identification at 60 m for bare ground only, with vegetation and water masked using Sentinel-2. It shows minerals at the surface, not ore at depth.

Ships: AIS positions from AISStream.io near chokepoints and ports every three hours, moved on along their reported course and speed for up to an hour; the 3D models are typical of the AIS ship type, not the ship itself. Status trends compare with a weekly snapshot kept every Monday. The Strait of Malacca detour is an atlas estimate from its own sea-lane waypoints.

Heat and gas: NASA VIIRS 375 m thermal anomalies every day and Sentinel-5P sulphur dioxide every week (NOAA-20 OMPS when Sentinel-5P is unavailable), both read from NASA GIBS map tiles. Trade: Eurostat Comext for EU imports. The stress test scales last year's imports by the months chosen; it does not forecast prices.

Signals: ship counts refresh weekly, EU imports, tenders and conflict records monthly, all through the same scheduled task. Owners, public funding and the US rule are checked by hand and dated. Water stress, tree-cover loss and research counts are fixed snapshots.

Changelog

25 Oct 2026Version 15. Your supply chain, assessed: a register of your products, parts, origins and stock with a risk rating for each part, a stress test that shows which parts run out and when, a mapping by material with activity at the sites seen from orbit, and a report to download or print. All of it stays in your browser. On the globe: lit 3D models for mines, plants, magnet factories and satellites, sharper earth maps on laptops, softer clouds, and the same detailed ships on every trade route. New: a section for teams.
24 Oct 2026New name: OreOrbit. A public copy now runs on bohemiadefense.com/atlas and updates itself every three hours.
24 Oct 2026Forty years of Landsat at every mine, surface minerals from NASA's EMIT, real ships in 3D that keep moving between reports, a sections menu, trend arrows against a weekly memory, a seven-slide Monday board pack built every week, stress tests for several materials and the Strait of Malacca, European capacity against imports, Claude reading parts lists, a data health panel, sound, sharper clouds and a new night sky. Fixed: the vegetation-loss maps used the wrong reflectance offset for newer Sentinel-2 scenes.
24 Oct 2026Your Monday morning with a five-slide board pack, mine-to-missile exposure, stress tests, the gap to 2030, compare and presentation modes. From orbit: mine time-lapses since 2017, radar through cloud, heat at the plants, sulphur dioxide over smelters, today's clouds and sharper 3D terrain. Trade: China's exports as the buyers report them, and cargo dots sized by tonnage.
23 Oct 2026Signals and Rules: EU imports by origin, ship traffic, armed conflict, tenders, research on substitutes, the 2027 US rule, public funding, owners, water and forest around each site, reading lenses, a one-page brief, a team watchlist and comments.
23 Oct 2026Mine change maps in hectares, weekly new images, hazard alerts by email and push, Ask the atlas, metal prices, Czech version.
23 Oct 2026Live satellites, hazards, weather and 3D terrain at every mine.
22 Oct 2026First version: globe, 31 sites, 9 routes, quiz, scenarios and a daily news wire.

Data health

Is the data fresh?

Every feed on this page, when it last arrived and when the next one is due. A feed that fails keeps its last good data on the page, marked with its age.

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Europe's defence runs on ten minerals.