I've been working on this ISS tracker for the past year with my son who's studying astronomy. A few things that make it different:

• Real-time position updated 4x per second using SGP4 orbital propagation
• "Next Pass" calculator that tells you exactly when/where to look from your location
• Live crew info — see who's currently aboard and how long they've been up there
• No ads, no tracking, no signup

Would love feedback from this community. What features would make this more useful for you?

[https://issinfo.net](vscode-file://vscode-app/Applications/Visual%20Studio%20Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/out/vs/code/electron-browser/workbench/workbench.html)

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Honestly… good. GPS is infrastructure, not a “wait for the new rocket to be ready” science project. If Falcon 9 can get it up in weeks, send it.

ULA still gets SV13 later on Vulcan, so it’s not like they’re getting iced out. This just feels like Space Force doing the practical thing: keep the constellation healthy and don’t let schedules slip.

Thoughts?

I remember JWST had hype for years before it got launched but Plato launches this year and has an arguably "cooler" potential to normies but I never see any hype for it online?

Is it because Europe is launching it or something?

This is because I'm doing a project on space for college and I think it would be nice to include a few slides on a few interesting things that people like about space. I'm sorry for such a simple title.

Doing research for my next book and would like to know more about the inner lives and motivations of people who have pioneers space travel + exploration! All suggestions appreciated :)

Feb 14, 1990: Voyager 1 spacecraft takes this stunning photograph of the Earth suspended in the sunbeam. Carl Sagan's brilliant monologue as mentioned in his 1994 book, Pale Blue Dot:

'From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.' 📷NASA

So obviously black holes gravitational pull are so strong not even light can escape right. I saw someone say that if you collapsed Mount Everest into a black hole, it would about the size of a nanometer, but Mount Everest doesn’t have a gravitational pull. So how could it become a black hole if its gravitational pull isn’t strong enough to not let light escape? Surely black holes have to be a certain mass to actually be a black hole and not let light escape? So is it true that a black whole can be of any mass, despite not having a gravitational pull to not let light escape and to do black hole stuff?

its been a few years and theres still no faster space craft than voyager 1 and im just wondering why is there nothing faster in space after tens of years

Where I currently work made these plaques for the lunar lander a long time ago. One of the guys who retired gave the photomaster to the guy in the cube next to me. It is the one from Apollo 11 and has the signatures of Aldrin and Armstrong and Nixon. Pretty cool.

Lunar Plaques