Show HN: NASA Artemis II Mission Timeline Tracker (sunnywingsvirtual.com)

by AustinDev 17 comments 93 points
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[−] joemi 44d ago
That's really awesome! One feature request though: Can you make it so mousing over (or clicking on) an acronym tells you what it means? There are so many acronyms, it's hard for a layperson like myself to understand much of it.
[−] AustinDev 43d ago
I didn't build it. I just found it on a live stream (https://www.twitch.tv/ej_sa) of the mission. Maybe Show HN: was the wrong prefix.
[−] joemi 42d ago
Ah, yeah, Show HN is for things you made. Interesting links such as the one you shared are just shared without any special prefix.

From the HN FAQ:

> What are Ask HN and Show HN?

> Ask HN lists questions and other text submissions. Show HN is for sharing your personal work and has special rules.

[−] tigerlily 44d ago
Thanks, nice detailed overview. I've found this sort of info hard to find. There's also this seeming broadcast schedule which I can't follow for the life of me:

https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/artemis-ii-b...

Also live views from Orion: https://youtube.com/watch?v=6RwfNBtepa4

[−] damnitbuilds 44d ago
I wanted a top-down view of Earth and Moon with Artemis' current live position shown on it.

Google AI couldn't do it, ChatGPT told me it couldn't do it because Artemis 2 hadn't launched yet.

Seems to me like an obvious view to want to see. Seems to me like a NASA contractor could have squeezed its production into the $4 billion budget for this flight.

Does such a thing exist ?

[−] trwrto 44d ago
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/artemis-ii/arow/ Click on mission view, then zoom out and rotate.
[−] damnitbuilds 44d ago
Thanks !

But I assume it was tested on a GTX5090 - unusably slow for my laptop.

[−] mrlonglong 43d ago
Works just fine on my laptop, it's got a RTX5000 Ada GPU w/16GB VRAM in it.
[−] grimm8000 44d ago
as constructive criticism the mobile version of the site is kinda clunky
[−] dvh 44d ago
A simple button to minimize blue panel would get us 90% there.
[−] i_love_retros 43d ago
Looks like loveable can't do mobile design yet!
[−] gdotdesign 44d ago
Thank you for building this.
[−] weebst 44d ago
This is awesome! Thank you!
[−] vishalvi 44d ago
Good stuff.
[−] johnhess 44d ago
decoder ring?
[−] choam2426 44d ago
awesome!
[−] nc_skilder 44d ago
nice !