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Re: Explore ISS on Google Maps

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Post by widforss »

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.

It is rather easy to get access to real-time satellite imagery. I use it daily.

https://scihub.copernicus.eu/

Re: Explore ISS on Google Maps

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Post by skilled »

sbr464 wrote: post #35
sbr464 wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can also ping this every second/few seconds. http://api.open-notify.org/iss-now.json

Or my personal favorite, who’s in space right now: http://api.open-notify.org/astros.json To save you from googling, it's these 3 people: [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Saint-Jacques [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ypiWwh_JEY [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_McClain [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iZhMOsc6nQ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleg_Kononenko [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=…

Thanks for the links, this picture [1] stunned me a little. Have to say I am a little jealous of all the people who have managed to get that level of direct experience.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleg_Kononenko#/media/File:ISS...

Re: Explore ISS on Google Maps

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Post by ronsor »

org3432 wrote: post #32
houstonGuy wrote: post #29

Yes thinkpads and Ethernet cable and routers and web servers (IIS and Apache Tomcat) are part of the Operational local network (OpsLan) onboard the ISS - they are used primarily for astronaut (crew) mission planning, procedures and electronic communition - systems that are deemed not to be flight critical and are not directly used in command and control of the spacecraft (think email, documents and other messaging an…

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)

Re: Explore ISS on Google Maps

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Post by dewey »

dzhiurgis wrote: post #37

This is cool, but Google goes all the way to build this rather useless gimmick instead of solving actual support problems that come up here once a week.

The people who are working on that are probably not the same ones who would deal with some unrelated issues on other products. It’s not like they decided to not improve the gmail UI because they were working on the ISS project.

Re: Explore ISS on Google Maps

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Post by potiuper »

navs wrote: post #33
aportnoy wrote: post #4

So the ThinkPad is the NASA laptop of choice?

I can’t tell if that’s a Lenovo era Thinkpad. Would NASA still use thinkpads considering all the hoo-ha when it comes to Chinese tech companies?

They are T61p https://www.techrepublic.com/article/from-windows-10-linux-i... Most computer parts are made in China regardless of the vendor not including the CPU. Doubtful that they are using Libreboot, but that would be a good justification for using them.

Re: Explore ISS on Google Maps

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Post by sherincall »

houstonGuy wrote: post #29

Yes thinkpads and Ethernet cable and routers and web servers (IIS and Apache Tomcat) are part of the Operational local network (OpsLan) onboard the ISS - they are used primarily for astronaut (crew) mission planning, procedures and electronic communition - systems that are deemed not to be flight critical and are not directly used in command and control of the spacecraft (think email, documents and other messaging an…

One of my favorite bug reports was a hardware issue on a thinkpad on the ISS. The report had a line like "There are no repro systems on earth".
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