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jamesmontalvo3
Awesome work! Surely a huge labor of love to dig up that much content out of the public domain. Congrats on the launch!
etiennebausson
Nice work, love the access to all the comms history.
ta1243
25 years and -5 days?
Areading314
Is there a list of useful science/inventions that this project has led to?
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callumprentice
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.

tagami
Extraordinary work. We’re able to go back to the dates and times when our labs were operational. This context is profound for our engagement with schools around the world. Well done!
extraduder_ire
Is there a historical record of the data that appears through the ISS stats tracker?

https://iss-mimic.github.io/Mimic/

Lots of interesting information in there, like how much water is getting used, and which direction all the panels are facing.

mwigdahl
Incredible, such a clear labor of love! Thank you for sharing it with the world!
phendrenad2
I'd love to have a real 24-hour feed of the Earth from the ISS on my wall. But in reality, the ISS loses ground connection constantly.
jamesmontalvo3
Not really constantly. For 20 seconds every 30 minutes or so when it changes what satellite it’s pointed at, plus longer outages throughout the day depending on satellite usage by other systems. This may be just a minute or so every hour on a high-coverage day, or it may include 15-minute outages occasionally at low-coverage times (typically when the crew are asleep)
ericcumbee
hard to believe its been 25 years. I remember watching CSPAN at my grandmothers on a friday night watching the live coverage of STS-88 Mating the Russian Zarya Module to the US Unity node.