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Show HN: ISS in Real Time - 25 Years Aboard the International Space
Station
Today my collaborator and I are releasing issinrealtime.org, a
multimedia project that plays back every day onboard the ISS.
Feedback welcomed. Here's an article that was just released about
it: https://www.collectspace.com/news/news-102725a-iss-in-real-t...
I also wrote a "making of" post about it here:
https://benfeist.com/posts/iss-in-real-time/
Author : bfeist
Score : 128 points
Date : 2025-10-27 14:25 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (issinrealtime.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (issinrealtime.org)
| jamesmontalvo3 wrote:
| Awesome work! Surely a huge labor of love to dig up that much
| content out of the public domain. Congrats on the launch!
| FredPret wrote:
| This is unbelievably amazing. Instant favourite, along with the
| Apollo 11 replay site https://apolloinrealtime.org/11/
| jamesmontalvo3 wrote:
| Is stated in the linked article but in case anyone missed it:
| same creators as Apollo in Real Time
| etiennebausson wrote:
| Nice work, love the access to all the comms history.
| ta1243 wrote:
| 25 years and -5 days?
| exitb wrote:
| In five days we will mark 25 years since Expedition 1 begun.
| Areading314 wrote:
| Is there a list of useful science/inventions that this project
| has led to?
| callumprentice wrote:
| https://callumprentice.github.io/apps/iss_photo_explorer/ind...
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| My daughter and I made this 10 years ago for the NASA Space Apps
| Challenge and I notified a whole bunch of folk at NASA but never
| heard anything back. Laughably amateurish compared to this
| magnificent work but it was fun to make.
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| We actually started work on the next version - a tool that lets
| you mark begin/end photo frames from those incredible fly-bys and
| save them off as video but it's maybe not worth it now.
| bfeist wrote:
| Very cool! Your idea about auto-generating timelapse videos was
| taken up by NASA.
| https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/BeyondThePhotography/CrewEarthObser...
| dylan604 wrote:
| I've always found the timelapse videos from ISS much more
| interesting than from satellites in geosync at least
| artistically. The angles are more interesting. I love the
| ones at night where you can see the city lights, the stars in
| the background, the Karman line, auroras, and lightning.
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| One of the first projects I when I was learning how to be a
| proper hacker by using curl (at least according to certain
| states) was from NASA images which I would then turn into
| timelapse videos as well. I used imagery from SOHO to watch
| the sun on a weekly basis with a cronjob that would run once
| a week and deliver a video.
| callumprentice wrote:
| Wow - that's incredible. I can't wait to take a look. Thanks
| for the pointer.
| lloydatkinson wrote:
| Such a shame they want to burn this up
| tagami wrote:
| Extraordinary work. We're able to go back to the dates and times
| when our labs were operational. This context is profound for our
| engagement with schools around the world. Well done!
| extraduder_ire wrote:
| Is there a historical record of the data that appears through the
| ISS stats tracker?
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| https://iss-mimic.github.io/Mimic/
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| Lots of interesting information in there, like how much water is
| getting used, and which direction all the panels are facing.
| bfeist wrote:
| Yes and no. I have 7+ years and counting of telemetry
| recordings but I don't know of a resource that would let me get
| all of it historically. If you know of one, please let me know.
| The recordings that I do have will be integrated into the
| website at some point. I was going to do it as part of the
| initial launch but I ran out of time.
| 9dev wrote:
| I turned the awesome work of the ISS Mimic into a
| Prometheus+Grafana stack a while ago:
| https://github.com/radiergummi/iss-metrics
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| Never got around to create bespoke visualisations for all the
| different kinds of metrics, but having all that data in Grafana
| made it a lot easier to play around and get insights.
| mwigdahl wrote:
| Incredible, such a clear labor of love! Thank you for sharing it
| with the world!
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