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Show HN: ISS in Real Time – 25 Years Aboard the International Space Station

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Post by bfeist » Mon, Oct 27, 2025, 2:25 PM UTC

Today my collaborator and I are releasing issinrealtime.org, a multimedia project that plays back every day onboard the ISS. Feedback welcomed.

Here's an article that was just released about it: https://www.collectspace.com/news/news-102725a-iss-in-real-t...

I also wrote a "making of" post about it here: https://benfeist.com/posts/iss-in-real-time/

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Oct 27, 2025, 2:27 PM UTC

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Post by jamesmontalvo3 » Mon, Oct 27, 2025, 3:32 PM UTC

Awesome work! Surely a huge labor of love to dig up that much content out of the public domain. Congrats on the launch!

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Post by FredPret » Tue, Oct 28, 2025, 2:07 PM UTC

This is unbelievably amazing. Instant favourite, along with the Apollo 11 replay site https://apolloinrealtime.org/11/

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Post by etiennebausson » Tue, Oct 28, 2025, 2:10 PM UTC

Nice work, love the access to all the comms history.

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Post by ta1243 » Tue, Oct 28, 2025, 3:23 PM UTC

25 years and -5 days?

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Post by Areading314 » Tue, Oct 28, 2025, 3:24 PM UTC

Is there a list of useful science/inventions that this project has led to?

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Oct 28, 2025, 3:29 PM UTC

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Post by exitb » Tue, Oct 28, 2025, 3:47 PM UTC

ta1243 wrote: post #6

25 years and -5 days?

In five days we will mark 25 years since Expedition 1 begun.

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Post by callumprentice » Tue, Oct 28, 2025, 4:24 PM UTC

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.

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