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Bob Gould 9h ago

It's no secret that I've been struggling, and my therapist said I need to find things to keep me busy, so I created the @cdnspace Artemis II dashboard.

I reverse-engineered the Unity Engine powering the NASA AROW visualization and found an absolute treasure trove of data to display.

Little did I expect that it's now being seen by anywhere from 200 to 600 people at any given time with 130,000 people having looked at it in the last 24 hours. People are even building projects around my API.

Yesterday, I received a message on LinkedIn from someone working in Mission Control in Houston... and they're using my dashboard! He even sent me a photo, but I can't share it until after the crew has splashed down.

Mind blown, and an absolute pick-me-up. The best part? It's being served from my basement.

https://artemis.cdnspace.ca/

#artemis #artemis2 #artemisII #nasa #csa

Artemis II Tracker — Live Mission Control

Real-time mission control dashboard tracking NASA's Artemis II crewed lunar flyby. Live telemetry, DSN comms, orbit visualization, and crew activities.

Canadian Space

like this is wild.

I'm glad folks are seeing usefulness in this tool!

Ad astra Artemis II!

Cameron MacLeod 11h ago

@chad This is really gorgeous, Chad. Great work! Where did you get the Apollo 8 events, are those hard coded from somewhere? Very nifty.

@c_9 thanks Cam!
It comes from the Apollo Flight Journal, NASA data, and the Apollo in Real Time.

Nuwagaba Gift 10h ago

@chad
Am really impressed by the way you produced something great out of nothing. Something that was meant to keep you busy has instead made you more important and increased your value. Can I share with you about my project?

@nuwagaba2 Yes please!

ZenHeathen 🇨🇦10h ago

@chad @cdnspace This is a great and very sexy tool. I've been hyping it all over.

@ZenHeathen I've been absolutely obsessed about this mission. When I reverse engineered the hidden API I couldn't help but lock in.

Tom Czarniecki 10h ago

@chad It's brilliant!

@t0mcz LOOK AT THAT 😍

Bytebro 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇬🇱9h ago

Amazing, and congratulations!

@chad @cdnspace Wow. Phenomenal work. ❤️👏🏆

@chad This is extraordinary, and exactly what I was looking for! I totally get why NASA went with the graphics thing, to help people visualize what's going on. But numbers do it for me, and this is that and then some.

@tehstu numbers do it for me too which is why I went to figure out how to reverse engineer their visualization!

BeeCycling 9h ago

@chad @cdnspace This is great! Instantly added a shortcut to my phone for that.

The "Toilet: 🟢 Go" reading made me chuckle. Nothing but trouble, that toilet!

Flash Mob Of One 9h ago

@chad @cdnspace Good on you for having good coping strategies.

Super important stuff, and it's neat that something you built is being used to accomplish an amazing feat.

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸9h ago

@chad @cdnspace my son found this tool and I’ve been running it 24/7 on any screen I can find! Great work Chad!!

@chad @cdnspace I've been checking in with this tracker throughout the week and just happened to see this post in trending. Good work and thank you!

Flaming Cheeto 8h ago

@chad @cdnspace I love the little flags. I read it as "if any of the astronauts defect mid-mission, we will let you know"

Mark Daniels-Wr. 🟢8h ago

@chad marvellous 🤩 thank you for making this visualisation 👍

@chad @cdnspace best UI I've seen in a long time!

Dr. Eric J. Fielding, PhD 8h ago

@chad @cdnspace This is excellent! The NASA AROW page does not even load on my iPhone. Yours looks good on a small screen. One of the space YouTube channels said that the TLI burn was only 300 m/s of delta-V, which seemed far too small. Your dashboard lists a far more reasonable delta-V over 3000 m/s.

@chad @cdnspace Looks great in iPhone too!

A.Z. Device |8h ago

@chad @cdnspace this is absolutely amazing! Great work!!

@chad But is there a toilet API?!

@chad Oh there is! How did I miss it right at the top.

Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta 8h ago

@chad @cdnspace that is incredibly cool! Congratulations and thank you!

germanio 8h ago

@chad @cdnspace absolutely great work! Someone shared it at work a few days ago and we were all amazed. Thanks for sharing it, man

taijidude 8h ago

@chad @cdnspace Looks amazing. How did you build it?

Ramnarayan Kalyanaraman 8h ago

@chad @cdnspace

This is brilliant

I have been reading but not tracking

This has changed that - so many things to look at and ponder.

Secondly, what an amazing coping technique absolutely good on you and for you, while the rest of us benefit

Thank you

Rockmaster Mike 8h ago

@chad this really is an impressive display. the layout is logical, intuitive, and easy to read. very nicely done

Joseph Shoer 8h ago

@chad @cdnspace This dashboard is amazing! I'm a spacecraft engineer and my colleagues have been using it.

@jpshoer that's wild!

Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦7h ago

@chad I'm glad to hear you're being constructive amid the chaos. I wish you well.

Thaumatomane 7h ago

@chad @cdnspace

Beyond Amazing!

TheNovemberFella ✊🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦☸️🛰️🚀7h ago

@chad @cdnspace Thanks! So very cool!

Per Nystrom 7h ago

@chad @cdnspace

Thank you for a reminder of all the best the Internet can offer. Thanks to you and countless others like you, the dream is still alive!

Meznor UNGRATEFUL MIDDLE POWER 7h ago

@chad @cdnspace 😀 ♥️ 👏

@chad @cdnspace I love the use of sparklines, and ... its not clear when they start? Obviously speed doesn't start high and then drop ... maybe have them start at MET 0, and stretch across the open space?

Also, I know you're probably getting a gajillion suggestions right now, sorry if this comes across as pile-on.

@chad Beautiful work! @cdnspace

Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta 7h ago

@chad @cdnspace I think we’re hugging your server to overload right now

PapyrusBrigade 7h ago

@chad Congratulations, Chad. That's really great to see.

Kyle Memoir 🍉🐧7h ago

@chad @cdnspace

Wow, that's just awesome!

Ross Wintle 7h ago

@chad @cdnspace This is really awesome. Thank you for making and sharing it.

Peace is Not A Fable

@chad @cdnspace
Right On Chad ! Super Cool 😎

Cabbanis 6h ago

@chad @cdnspace wow amazing

@chad so cool great work

pedro 🍉6h ago

@chad @cdnspace Thank you so much for this, it looks absolutely gorgeous! BTW, just a small detail - is the TLI correctly drawn on the diagram? It looks as if the spaceship went backwards, which, at least in my experience playing KSP, shouldn't be the case?

@ubik thanks! Yes - it's a 2D representation, so there's some liberties taken, but as @leadore mentions, it's the viewing angle: https://sunny.garden/@leadore/116353338083741484

Lea (@[email protected])

@[email protected] It's the viewing angle. If you could rotate/tilt the image toward or away from you, you'd see the path from "above" or "below" and would see the gradual curve. @[email protected] @[email protected]

Sunny Garden

Geoffrey Giebelhaus 6h ago

@chad @cdnspace

Any chance you could explain this pointed bit above the Earth where it says TLI? It makes it look like they did a 180 and then shot off to the moon. But I thought they did a Gravity assist? Maybe it's just a result of 3D translated to 2D?

Would love more explanation if you or anyone else could provide.

@geoff_eg
It's the viewing angle. If you could rotate/tilt the image toward or away from you, you'd see the path from "above" or "below" and would see the gradual curve.

@chad @cdnspace

Geoffrey Giebelhaus 5h ago

@leadore @chad @cdnspace

Awesome, that's what I assumed as well, but wanted to make sure I wasn't misunderstanding it.

Jo:rg Weingrill 6h ago

@chad @cdnspace great webpage with all the nice details. But I wonder if the units for the pitch roll and yaw rates were correct? I would assume them to be below 1°/s otherwise the spacecraft would be tumbling heavily.

@weingrill thanks for this catch! Just fixed it. The raw data was rad/s and I was off in my conversion logic.

The Febrile Muse 6h ago

So cool!