Show HN: Made a little Artemis II tracker

46 pointsposted 4 hours ago
by codingmoh
(artemis-ii-tracker.com)

19 Comments

0x38B

an hour ago

It says the distance from Earth right now is 154,000km, but the other trackers, including NASA, say 30,000km (numbers rounded). The velocity is different as well, 7km/s vs NASA's 4km/s.

dvt

2 hours ago

To me, what's super interesting about this is the fact that my brain instantly recognized it's AI coded (not sure why, it might be the spacing, the font, the text glow, etc.).

noman-land

22 minutes ago

Claude always makes sites look this way.

YCprince

2 hours ago

The First thought that came to mind was It's AI coded. Maybe it's because they follow a similar design pattern. Or maybe we have some supernatural powers

Polizeiposaune

16 minutes ago

The closest they get to the moon is about 8000km/5000 miles above the surface over the far side

The trajectory depicted has them hitting the moon; it should instead show them passing 2+ lunar diameters behind the moon.

rozab

an hour ago

This has always been a peeve of mine, but the lack of scale diagrams in coverage of this is maddening. We know what the Earth and the Moon look like, there is no need to make them 20 times bigger. Surely the point of these diagrams is to show the unbelievable scale of the journey. I'm yet to see one this news cycle, from NASA or anyone else

zamadatix

a minute ago

False scale gives a direct way to see which body is which and where the craft is between them without having to work it out backwards from the rest of the context (while real scale makes both sides just looks like dots on typical sized screens and you need to know/read the rest before you can figure out which is which otherwise).

groggo

42 minutes ago

Someone should make a website or project and post it on HN, and then set up an AI agent takes the top comments and just implements them.

Gagarin1917

an hour ago

I don’t think the current position of Orion is accurate. It shows them about halfway to the moon, but they’re just leaving Earth orbit right now.

washbasin

3 hours ago

This is cool! NASA uses Imperial units (well, unless the it's the Mars Climate Orbiter). Can we get a version that follows the units they are using with their public feeds?

GrifMD

2 hours ago

This is cool! I do want to ask, did you have AI design the page for you? It looks like a design pattern I've seen spit out by LLMs pretty frequently.

I'm not hear to talk down to you about the site, I love this little thing that gives me just enough info to satisfy my curiosity.

dap

an hour ago

Is the MET right? They launched about 29 hours ago but it says 1d18h

arnav7717

2 hours ago

very cool! How did you get the data?

jamesbfb

3 hours ago

Bless! Absolutely love this, and an absolutely no disrespect, this is vibe code goodness! These are the kinds of things I have an absolute ball building, usually when I’m sitting on the couch at the end of the day duel screening.

What’s the data source? Assuming NASA being NASA they have a public API for the mission?

Smoosh

3 hours ago

Nice, thanks.