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Show HN: ISS in Real Time – 25 Years Aboard the International Space Station

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152 points bfeist | 5 comments | 27 Oct 25 14:25 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

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/

1. extraduder_ire ◴[28 Oct 25 17:12 UTC] No.45735672[source]▶
Is there a historical record of the data that appears through the ISS stats tracker?

https://iss-mimic.github.io/Mimic/

Lots of interesting information in there, like how much water is getting used, and which direction all the panels are facing.

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2. bfeist ◴[28 Oct 25 19:16 UTC] No.45737551[source]▶
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.
3. 9dev ◴[28 Oct 25 20:20 UTC] No.45738563[source]▶
I turned the awesome work of the ISS Mimic into a Prometheus+Grafana stack a while ago: https://github.com/radiergummi/iss-metrics

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.

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4. bfeist ◴[29 Oct 25 01:11 UTC] No.45741432[source]▶
Awesome. You don’t happen to have 25 years of recorded telemetry, do you?
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5. 9dev ◴[29 Oct 25 06:44 UTC] No.45743421{3}[source]▶
Nope, sorry. But I'd try a friendly request to Lightstreamer (they handle the Telemetry feed), or the NASA and ESA public relations offices; they must keep a database somewhere.