around-earth

Around Earth will provide space enthusiasts & curious with ‘daily news' about Space. From the real-time ISS position to the next broadcasted rocket launching, every exciting events above your head will be made available right in your pocket!

This project is solving the Space Station Telemetry App challenge.
Description
A web app that provides space enthusiasts & curious with ‘daily news’ on the latest operations in and about Space (launching, docking, spacewalks, exploration discoveries, etc.) based on information available from public pages at NASA, the European Space Agency, the Japanese Space Agency, as well as a realtime view of the actual orbit of the ISS (velocity, altitude, trajectory) The web-app will notify the users with upcoming space station sighting opportunities for their location, important news about solar system exploration, upcoming space related events, etc.

http://dev.byteout.com/ivanstan/around-earth/public/

Project Information

License: GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPL-3.0)

Source Code/Project URL: https://github.com/ivanstan/around-earth

Resources

Pyorbital - https://pyorbital.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
Twitter Bootstrap - http://getbootstrap.com/2.3.2/
Google Maps - https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/tutorial
Google Maps Addons - https://github.com/marmat/google-maps-api-addons
Preview - http://dev.byteout.com/around-earth/

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