satellite-js
awesome-space
| satellite-js | awesome-space | |
|---|---|---|
| 7 | 28 | |
| 862 | 1,771 | |
| - | 0.7% | |
| 0.0 | 5.7 | |
| 4 months ago | 14 days ago | |
| JavaScript | Ruby | |
| MIT License | - |
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
satellite-js
- Real-time map of every Starlink satellite in orbit
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Reentry of International Space Station Batteries into Earth's Atmosphere
Looks like related events. An orange fireball at 19:00 in NE Bangkok and then a green fireball in SE Bangkok at 21:00.
I'll add https://www.keeptrack.space/app/ to the list of suggestions. Although it may be more intimidating than helpful.
Neat site though, has 3D globe height tracking and in the upper right you can filter with the layer menu for "rocket bodies" and "debris". Very few sites I've found that can filter for debris objects.
Also, satellite.js and https://github.com/shashwatak/satellite-js/wiki/Sites-using-... which is where I found KeepTrack
- Low Earth Orbit Visualization
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Orbital patterns of the ISS - Interactive [OC]
I used the satellite.js javascript package and the ISS TLE file to calculate the position of the ISS. The visualization was made using the d3.js open source graphing library and HTML/CSS/Javascript code for the interactivity and UI.
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Create a satellite tracker completely in JavaScript
https://github.com/shashwatak/satellite-js#introduction -> https://pypi.org/project/sgp4/#description -> https://celestrak.com/ -> https://celestrak.com/NORAD/documentation/gp-data-formats.php
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Create a satellite tracker from scratch in 30 lines of JavaScript
We'll use satellite-js to predict the orbit of the satellite given the TLE's (this is the rocket science part).
awesome-space
- Intuitive Machines successfully lands on the Moon
- Orbital Index
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NY Times Rides in Waymo Robotaxis in SF
Reminds me that SpaceX has now landed rocket boosters successfully over 200 times. Landing just a single rocket was huge news a few years ago.
The US is launching things into space about 20 times as frequently compared to 10 years ago [1]. Now, most rocket launches don't make mainstream news—I only keep up with things by subscribing to a niche newsletter [2].
[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/yearly-number-of-objects-...
[2] https://orbitalindex.com
- New Tatooine-like exoplanet found orbiting twin suns
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Jeff Bezos announces $3.4B NASA contract to land astronauts on lunar surface
NASA needs multiple lander options; putting all their cards on a lunar Starship landing was always a bit ridiculous, even if it seems reasonably likely to happen. So if you want the Artemis program to actually happen, this is likely a good thing. However, with congress in a deadlock around the debt ceiling, and SLS costing $4B per launch, this is only going to add to Artemis's serious funding challenges.
If you're interested in the space industry in general, I'll cover this more next week in the weekly Orbital Index newsletter (https://orbitalindex.com) which I co-author with blach.
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The Starship Startups - H+ Weekly - Issue #408
This week on H+ Weekly - the first guest post! Ben and Andrew from The Orbital Index highlight an exciting development in the space industry - the rise of startups betting hard on SpaceX’s Starship to succeed.
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Show HN: Moonshine – open-source, pretrained ML models for satellite
You should definitely submit this to https://github.com/orbitalindex/awesome-space#earth!
- Ask HN: What RSS Reader do you use in 2022?
- Ask HN: Which mailing lists would you recommend to subscribe to?
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Ask HN: What newsletters do you subscribe to?
A couple that I get:
- aeon and Psyche: https://aeon.co
- Benedict Evans: https://www.ben-evans.com
- The Orbital Index: https://orbitalindex.com
What are some alternatives?
Cesium - An open-source JavaScript library for world-class 3D globes and maps :earth_americas:
illumos-gate - An open-source Unix operating system
Photons - Particle system for Three.js
orbiter - Open-source repository of Orbiter Space Flight Simulator
yamcs - A framework for mission control
Open MCT - A web based mission control framework.
Torque3D - MIT Licensed Open Source version of Torque 3D from GarageGames
awesome-security-newsletters - Periodic cyber security newsletters that capture the latest news, summaries of conference talks, research, best practices, tools, events, vulnerabilities, and analysis of trending threats and attacks
celestiary - Astronomical simulator of solar system and local stars
sfsim - Space flight simulator (under development)
Readrops - Android multi-services RSS client
readeef - Readeef feed agregator