Show HN: Made a little Artemis II tracker (artemis-ii-tracker.com)

Nice, thanks.

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?

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?

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.).

very cool! How did you get the data?

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.

Nice job

A few more trackers:

https://artemistracker.com/

https://artemislivetracker.com/

https://www.nasa.gov/missions/artemis-ii/arow/

Aside... so impressed with the UI on the posted version.

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.

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.

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

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

Here's the official one, presumably with correct data: https://www.nasa.gov/missions/artemis-ii/arow/

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.

This got vibed coded AF

Did they not just launch yesterday and they are already half way there? Am I wrong?

Super vibe coded, but love how it works. And here's the correct data source for reference btw: https://www.nasa.gov/missions/artemis-ii/arow/

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I can't see crap. Fonts too small, everything too dark.

I recommend https://issinfo.net/artemis over the surge of vibe coded Artemis II trackers. Seen two others so far and they've all had major inaccuracies either regarding trajectory, current distance, or current mission state. One even said the remaining mission time was over 400 days. They all obviously used Claude Code.

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Why is a horizontal line constantly falling down? It’s so distracting, I feel like I can focus on the content

is it updating live data via

Very cool! Nice to put it as a side window for live status (which do not take too much attention compared to YT)

Pretty cool! This mission has me very excited, but it didn't even occur to me the I could keep track of all this data about it in real time, so thanks for sharing.

BTW, 90% of the comments being about whether this was made with AI or not (and personal opinions on it) is much MUCH worse than it being made with AI. The lack of downvotes for submissions is not an invitation to bring negativity to the comments; if the submission doesn't provide value to you, just move along. Make another post with your opinions on AI and see how many care to read it.