Bolide Detection

StarFall is now publicly released! This open‑source project, developed by the Space Dynamics Laboratory with support from NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office, provides a near real‑time bolide detection and alert system.

What is StarFall?

StarFall ingests Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) L2 netCDF data from NOAA’s GOES satellites. Although the GLM sensors were originally built to detect lightning, they also capture the distinctive signatures of bolides.