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Re: Explore ISS on Google Maps

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Post by dotancohen »

nitrix wrote: post #21
freedomben wrote: post #16

Really surprised by all the loose cables. That seems like a safety issue. When I was in the military, cable management was a huge thing. We would get in trouble unless every cable was secure. Having someone trip over a cable and heaven forbid break it or yank it free, could lose lives. I would imagine stakes are similarly high in space.

What you don't see on the virtual map is that the station is very much alive. There's constantly experiments, maintenance and whatnot going on. What may look like loose cabling/equipment here and there is probably someone that was in the middle of their work and had to get out of the shot. The more critical systems (like life support) are all behind the panels for the same reasons your realized.

It seems that this simulation wasn't filmed on the ISS in orbit, but rather at the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility. The view out the cupola is fake.

Re: Explore ISS on Google Maps

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Post by rdschouw »

7373737373 wrote: post #10
callumprentice wrote: post #6

I was expecting the earth to be moving out of the windows, displaying what the ISS is passing over, albeit not real time. I think that's possible - you can get current location of ISS and use that to grab images from Google, distort in the right way and display. Maybe a nice evenings project with my space-crazy 7 year old daughter.. Also, I thought the "Cupola" label you see when the page opens was highlighting a pla…

A public HD livestream would be world changing. Right now access to real time, high resolution satellite imagery is still restricted to large organizations. Only some rocket launches have some views from above.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBG3dHuzlbM

I've it running continuously on an Ipad Pro 12.9 in my living room.

Re: Explore ISS on Google Maps

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Post by 52-6F-62 »

agildehaus wrote: post #30
unsignedint wrote: post #17

ESA ISS Virtual Tour is also great. http://esamultimedia.esa.int/multimedia/virtual-tour-iss/

Also this VR recreation is pretty nice: https://www.oculus.com/experiences/rift/1178419975552187/

I loved that one.

BBC Home was also great— though it’s less of a tour of the station and more a dramatic spacewalk experience.

It made me dizzy the first time through. I found a beer helped level me out for the Canadarm scene.

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Post by greglindahl »

ronsor wrote: post #44
org3432 wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had an engineer from Boeing reach out to me once for help with the store and forwarding of Ethernet frames from the science experiment outputs. At the time he had a laptop running Qnx that would capture the frames, then when the ISS was over Houston it would replay them for the down link. I wonder if they have a better system in place now.

I think the ISS networks over a geosynchronous satellite now (ISS -> satelite -> Houston)

The TDRSS system predates the ISS. It’s more expensive than a direct downlink.
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