Space Dashboard
July 11, 2016 11:06 AM Subscribe
Wondering what's going on in space right now? Space Dashboard.
Featuring
Featuring
- two streams from the International Space Station in
- ESA's Where is the International Space Station?
- NOAA Space Weather Conditions
- JPL
- Solar System Dynamics Orbit diagrams
- Deep Space Network Now
I have cleverly timed this post so that it coincides with an ISS
posted by zamboni at 11:10 AM on July 11, 2016 [9 favorites]
loss of signalevent, which means that there's no video from the ISS right now.
posted by zamboni at 11:10 AM on July 11, 2016 [9 favorites]
what i really want to know is which pokemons can be caught on the ISS
posted by poffin boffin at 11:10 AM on July 11, 2016 [4 favorites]
posted by poffin boffin at 11:10 AM on July 11, 2016 [4 favorites]
Space has a terrible power!
*stands by the stairs*
posted by Smedleyman at 11:17 AM on July 11, 2016 [4 favorites]
*stands by the stairs*
posted by Smedleyman at 11:17 AM on July 11, 2016 [4 favorites]
what i really want to know is which pokemons can be caught on the ISS
Because I am no fun, the sad answer is probably none - no pokemons. The civilian GPS chip on a phone will refuse to give a position above 59000 feet (18 km) or 1000 knots (515 m/s) , and the ISS is travelling at ~7.66km/s, at an altitude somewhere between 330 and 435 km.
posted by zamboni at 11:23 AM on July 11, 2016 [6 favorites]
Because I am no fun, the sad answer is probably none - no pokemons. The civilian GPS chip on a phone will refuse to give a position above 59000 feet (18 km) or 1000 knots (515 m/s) , and the ISS is travelling at ~7.66km/s, at an altitude somewhere between 330 and 435 km.
posted by zamboni at 11:23 AM on July 11, 2016 [6 favorites]
SPACECRAFT
NAME
Voyager 2
RANGE
16.58 billion km
ROUND-TRIP LIGHT TIME
1.28 days
posted by aught at 11:41 AM on July 11, 2016 [5 favorites]
NAME
Voyager 2
RANGE
16.58 billion km
ROUND-TRIP LIGHT TIME
1.28 days
posted by aught at 11:41 AM on July 11, 2016 [5 favorites]
I'm in the office and our web gateway is flagging this as porn. Which is weird because in my case it's not necessarily wrong.
posted by JaredSeth at 11:55 AM on July 11, 2016 [9 favorites]
posted by JaredSeth at 11:55 AM on July 11, 2016 [9 favorites]
"ISS is travelling at ~7.66km/s, at an altitude somewhere between 330 and 435 km."
I desperately want to see a coordinated effort between the people managing the camera on
DSCOVR
and the people managing the attitude of the ISS or the angle of its solar panels and reflectors to angle them just as it crosses the terminator -- heck, if they're perpendicular to incoming sunlight, then they already ought to be in the right position, so all we'd need is careful timing taking the picture
to make a glint show up in the DSCOVR imagery
which would be a tiny bright pixel just slightly outside of that extremely thin layer of atmosphere.
Why?
Because we need to remind people how much farther there is to go.
And because satellite glints are a thing already, you can get forecasts of where and when to look to see them from the ground.
posted by hank at 12:02 PM on July 11, 2016
I desperately want to see a coordinated effort between the people managing the camera on
DSCOVR
and the people managing the attitude of the ISS or the angle of its solar panels and reflectors to angle them just as it crosses the terminator -- heck, if they're perpendicular to incoming sunlight, then they already ought to be in the right position, so all we'd need is careful timing taking the picture
to make a glint show up in the DSCOVR imagery
which would be a tiny bright pixel just slightly outside of that extremely thin layer of atmosphere.
Why?
Because we need to remind people how much farther there is to go.
And because satellite glints are a thing already, you can get forecasts of where and when to look to see them from the ground.
posted by hank at 12:02 PM on July 11, 2016
Alas for the required Flash plugin! Otherwise, looks really neat - would love to have this continuously showing on a big monitor on the wall.
posted by Celsius1414 at 12:07 PM on July 11, 2016
posted by Celsius1414 at 12:07 PM on July 11, 2016
You know, they say sometimes people go crazy on these long trips. They get the... SPACE DASHBOARD.
posted by Naberius at 12:26 PM on July 11, 2016
posted by Naberius at 12:26 PM on July 11, 2016
Alas for the required Flash plugin!
UStream claims they're nearly done with switching the player over to HTML5.
I guess you should watch this space… in order to watch that Space.
posted by zamboni at 1:08 PM on July 11, 2016 [1 favorite]
UStream claims they're nearly done with switching the player over to HTML5.
I guess you should watch this space… in order to watch that Space.
posted by zamboni at 1:08 PM on July 11, 2016 [1 favorite]
Neat! I would rather there was less bandwidth-intensive streaming, though. Also, needs more www.howmanypeopleareinspacerightnow.com.
posted by phooky at 2:40 PM on July 11, 2016 [2 favorites]
posted by phooky at 2:40 PM on July 11, 2016 [2 favorites]
If you're on an iPad, scroll down. Most of it works.
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 5:07 PM on July 11, 2016
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 5:07 PM on July 11, 2016
Nice, although I'll always be a little disappointed when I click on the Deep Space telescopes and the display doesn't read
posted by Halloween Jack at 8:31 PM on July 11, 2016
'sup dudesposted by Halloween Jack at 8:31 PM on July 11, 2016
I always get a little... funny when I look at the DSN Now screen and see VGR1 or VGR2 - up now at Canberra. And Madrid's got JNO.
Perhaps just a small wall-hanging screen with a RasPi bolted behind it...
posted by Devonian at 7:59 AM on July 12, 2016
Perhaps just a small wall-hanging screen with a RasPi bolted behind it...
posted by Devonian at 7:59 AM on July 12, 2016
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