Mastodawn

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.

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Geoffrey Giebelhaus 1d 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.

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Lea

@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

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Geoffrey Giebelhaus 1d ago

@leadore @chad @cdnspace

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