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- Such a shame they want to burn this up
- hard to believe its been 25 years. I remember watching CSPAN at my grandmothers on a friday night watching the live coverage of STS-88 Mating the Russian Zarya Module to the US Unity node.by ericcumbee
- Is there a list of useful science/inventions that this project has led to?by Areading314
- Incredible, such a clear labor of love! Thank you for sharing it with the world!by mwigdahl
- Nice work, love the access to all the comms history.
- I'd love to have a real 24-hour feed of the Earth from the ISS on my wall. But in reality, the ISS loses ground connection constantly.by phendrenad2
- Not really constantly. For 20 seconds every 30 minutes or so when it changes what satellite it’s pointed at, plus longer outages throughout the day depending on satellite usage by other systems. This may be just a minute or so every hour on a high-coverage day, or it may include 15-minute outages occasionally at low-coverage times (typically when the crew are asleep)
- Is there a historical record of the data that appears through the ISS stats tracker?
https://iss-mimic.github.io/Mimic/
Lots of interesting information in there, like how much water is getting used, and which direction all the panels are facing.
- Yes and no. I have 7+ years and counting of telemetry recordings but I don't know of a resource that would let me get all of it historically. If you know of one, please let me know. The recordings that I do have will be integrated into the website at some point. I was going to do it as part of the initial launch but I ran out of time.by bfeist
- I turned the awesome work of the ISS Mimic into a Prometheus+Grafana stack a while ago: https://github.com/radiergummi/iss-metrics
Never got around to create bespoke visualisations for all the different kinds of metrics, but having all that data in Grafana made it a lot easier to play around and get insights.
by 9dev - Extraordinary work. We’re able to go back to the dates and times when our labs were operational. This context is profound for our engagement with schools around the world. Well done!by tagami
- Awesome work! Surely a huge labor of love to dig up that much content out of the public domain. Congrats on the launch!
- This is unbelievably amazing. Instant favourite, along with the Apollo 11 replay site https://apolloinrealtime.org/11/by FredPret
- Is stated in the linked article but in case anyone missed it: same creators as Apollo in Real Time
- https://callumprentice.github.io/apps/iss_photo_explorer/ind...
My daughter and I made this 10 years ago for the NASA Space Apps Challenge and I notified a whole bunch of folk at NASA but never heard anything back. Laughably amateurish compared to this magnificent work but it was fun to make.
We actually started work on the next version - a tool that lets you mark begin/end photo frames from those incredible fly-bys and save them off as video but it's maybe not worth it now.
- Go around them and radio the astronauts on the ISS about it.by Kye
- Very cool! Your idea about auto-generating timelapse videos was taken up by NASA. https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/BeyondThePhotography/CrewEarthObser...by bfeist