itgrrl 4d ago

for any #SpaceNerds 👋 in #Aus who are looking for info about #ArtemisII mission timings, the ~6-minute #TLI burn is scheduled for 10:49 #AEDT today (2026-03-02 19:49 EDT)

all public mission timings that I’ve seen are only given in EDT, which is annoying af – I know that #NASA uses UTC as their canonical time standard for all mission timings but I guess they see themselves as mostly communicating publicly to a US audience so ¯_(ツ)_/¯ (yeah, yeah, their tax dollars, whatev)

anyways, my go-to site for TZ conversions is the Time and Date website so here’s the link for the planned TLI burn time -> https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20260401T234900&p1=tz_et&p2=tz_aet

you can of course use the site to convert any other EDT datetimes to your local TZ 💁‍♀️

Time Zone Converter – Time Difference Calculator

Find the exact time difference with the Time Zone Converter – Time Difference Calculator which converts the time difference between places and time zones all over the world.

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for any #NASA folks still monitoring the #NASAsocial hashtag, please please PLEASE:

– make it SOP to put up a super simple straightforward one-page mission timeline that has every significant mission event with a built-in TZ converter so folks playing along at home can set their local time zone & get accurate updated timings 🙏

– make it as low-tech as you can – mostly text, minimal “fancy” crap (JS, WebGL, user-tracking frameworks 🤮, etc.)

– link to it prominently at / near the top of the mission homepage, maybe with a handy “Next up: $MissionEventName” label as well

– publish an iCal feed that folks can either subscribe to or download^

– update the timings as they slip or advance as best you can (and have a single source of truth that’s used to update both the mission timings page & the iCal feed, obvs.)

– yes, I’m def open to a fully-remote position on your #SciComms team so long as I can mostly work UTC+10ish-friendly hours 😜

#kthxbai
 
 
 
^ and then also maintain a canonical page with all your mission iCal feeds in one place – something like nasa[.]gov/SpaceNerds/MissionData/feeds/iCal/ would be appropriate 😜

Apr 2 at 10:39pmWeb