If you want to create awesome D3 Satellite maps, you're going to need to fiddle with the parameters to get the zoom and angles right. This tool allows you to do that more quickly. If you want to read up more on the names of each of these (below) check out the D3 geo projections documentation.
Made by Daniel Wood.

Start by clicking this:

Parameters (I would recommend fiddling mostly with distance, scale, rotation, and the graticules)
distance: scale:
Rotation of the globe: yaw (λ): pitch (φ): roll (γ):
Center (x): Center (y):
tilt: precision:
Clip to Horizon: YesNo
If no, select a ClipAngle between 0 and 180:
Longitude Graticule intreval: Latitude Graticule intreval:

Click to redraw the map.

Check out these preset examples: Fork me on GitHub