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Re: SpaceProbes

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Post by throwaway_yy2Di » Sun, Jul 12, 2015, 2:27 PM UTC

flurdy wrote: post #19

51Cards wrote: post #16

Did I miss the Hubble? Would it not qualify for some reason?

Hubble orbits the Earth. Spaceprob.es seems to be for all current man made probes/landers/etc sent beyond that. Was going to put last weeks link that neatly showed all the hundreds, if not thousands, of man made objects orbiting Earth, but I can't find it just now (will edit if I do)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9841831

Re: SpaceProbes

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Post by flurdy » Sun, Jul 12, 2015, 2:33 PM UTC

throwaway_yy2Di wrote: post #21

flurdy wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hubble orbits the Earth. Spaceprob.es seems to be for all current man made probes/landers/etc sent beyond that. Was going to put last weeks link that neatly showed all the hundreds, if not thousands, of man made objects orbiting Earth, but I can't find it just now (will edit if I do)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9841831

That is the one. Thanks :) Basically http://stuffin.space/

Re: SpaceProbes

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Post by amelius » Sun, Jul 12, 2015, 2:46 PM UTC

jtemplin wrote: post #4

Terrific site. A visualization of the relative locations of the probes would be a helpful addition.

I thought of the same thing. It would also be nice to see the last time of contact.

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Post by ForHackernews » Sun, Jul 12, 2015, 3:38 PM UTC

Why aren't the Pioneer probes on this list?

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Post by klyburke » Sun, Jul 12, 2015, 3:43 PM UTC

Really nice design. It invites people to read.

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Post by Thorondor » Sun, Jul 12, 2015, 3:54 PM UTC

ForHackernews wrote: post #24

Why aren't the Pioneer probes on this list?

The list only shows active spacecraft. We lost contact with Pioneer 10 and 11 in 2003 and 1995 respectively.

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Post by motoboi » Sun, Jul 12, 2015, 4:40 PM UTC

A video of Sun coronal ejections made of images from STEREO probes: https://vimeo.com/3921306

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Post by ahayschi » Sun, Jul 12, 2015, 7:48 PM UTC

Check out the playlist linked in the Voyagers of the Golden Records sounds http://web.mit.edu/lilybui/www/

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Post by jccooper » Sun, Jul 12, 2015, 10:09 PM UTC

aidos wrote: post #2

That's such a lovely website. What a great project! Totally ignorant question – is that an exhaustive list? Wow, such mind bogglingly incredible machines.

Of active craft, yes. I had to double check; I became suspicious when I saw nothing Russian, but indeed there are no active Russian probes.