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Tiangong-1 Re-Entry Live Updates

69 points by lunchbreak 9y ago

lunchbreak 9y ago
The re-entry dashboard has the live details, but its preventing direct links, so I've linked to the main page.
- sduclos 9y ago
  get this, at 22:52:28 UTC, the time to reentry is 1.6h +- 1.7h
  - davrosthedalek 9y ago
    I think that's because it's currently not tracked. I.e., the station could have reentered a couple of minuted ago, and they wouldn't know.
    - sduclos 9y ago
      correct, also extrapolating on bunch of equation systems is bound to lead to this sort math aberration
  - mkempe 9y ago
    It was, confusingly, a computed dashboard -- not an actual tracker.
- digi_owl 9y ago
  Seems to me that the dashboard is basically a png that is refreshed ever so often.
  - lunchbreak 9y ago
    Exactly
- exikyut 9y ago
  I'm able to load http://www.aerospace.org/CORDSuploads/TiangongStoryboard.png http://www.aerospace.org/CORDSuploads/TiangongStoryboard.png just fine, including via wget.
akavel 9y ago
A reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/88bsyf/tiangong1_reentry_megathread/?ref=share&ref_source=link https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/88bsyf/tiangong1_ree...
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exikyut 9y ago
What other live data is there for this? (Besides the PNG which I am now downloading every 30 seconds using this in an empty dir:) while true; do wget http://www.aerospace.org/CORDSuploads/TiangongStoryboard.png -O $(date +%s).png; sleep 30; done Seems to update every 5 minutes at the moment; I'm overengineering incase they increase it at some point.
- anothergoogler 9y ago
  <snipped crappy script>
  - soneil 9y ago
    not just wget -N in a polite loop?
    - anothergoogler 9y ago
      I've been vanquished!
rch 9y ago
Looks like it's done.
- deleted 9y ago
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pksadiq 9y ago
Even more recent updates from China Manned Space Agency: http://en.cmse.gov.cn/col/col1763/index.html http://en.cmse.gov.cn/col/col1763/index.html
okket 9y ago
"#JFSCC confirmed #Tiangong1 reentered the atmosphere over the southern Pacific Ocean at ~5:16 p.m. (PST) April 1." https://twitter.com/18SPCS/status/980614448745406465 https://twitter.com/18SPCS/status/980614448745406465 I also recommend to follow Jonathan McDowell (@planet4589) for more informal updates on space activity.
exikyut 9y ago
After a multi-hour fight with imgur, which has some of the most BROKEN website design I have experienced (so. many. bugs.), I uploaded the tiny album of snapshots I took. https://imgur.com/a/CWkeP https://imgur.com/a/CWkeP

69 points by lunchbreak 9y ago

lunchbreak 9y ago

The re-entry dashboard has the live details, but its preventing direct links, so I've linked to the main page.

sduclos 9y ago
get this, at 22:52:28 UTC, the time to reentry is 1.6h +- 1.7h
- davrosthedalek 9y ago
  I think that's because it's currently not tracked. I.e., the station could have reentered a couple of minuted ago, and they wouldn't know.
  - sduclos 9y ago
    correct, also extrapolating on bunch of equation systems is bound to lead to this sort math aberration
- mkempe 9y ago
  It was, confusingly, a computed dashboard -- not an actual tracker.
digi_owl 9y ago
Seems to me that the dashboard is basically a png that is refreshed ever so often.
- lunchbreak 9y ago
  Exactly
exikyut 9y ago
I'm able to load http://www.aerospace.org/CORDSuploads/TiangongStoryboard.png http://www.aerospace.org/CORDSuploads/TiangongStoryboard.png just fine, including via wget.

akavel 9y ago

A reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/88bsyf/tiangong1_reentry_megathread/?ref=share&ref_source=link https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/88bsyf/tiangong1_ree...

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exikyut 9y ago

What other live data is there for this? (Besides the PNG which I am now downloading every 30 seconds using this in an empty dir:) while true; do wget http://www.aerospace.org/CORDSuploads/TiangongStoryboard.png -O $(date +%s).png; sleep 30; done Seems to update every 5 minutes at the moment; I'm overengineering incase they increase it at some point.

anothergoogler 9y ago
<snipped crappy script>
- soneil 9y ago
  not just wget -N in a polite loop?
  - anothergoogler 9y ago
    I've been vanquished!

rch 9y ago

Looks like it's done.

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pksadiq 9y ago

Even more recent updates from China Manned Space Agency: http://en.cmse.gov.cn/col/col1763/index.html http://en.cmse.gov.cn/col/col1763/index.html

okket 9y ago

"#JFSCC confirmed #Tiangong1 reentered the atmosphere over the southern Pacific Ocean at ~5:16 p.m. (PST) April 1." https://twitter.com/18SPCS/status/980614448745406465 https://twitter.com/18SPCS/status/980614448745406465 I also recommend to follow Jonathan McDowell (@planet4589) for more informal updates on space activity.

exikyut 9y ago

After a multi-hour fight with imgur, which has some of the most BROKEN website design I have experienced (so. many. bugs.), I uploaded the tiny album of snapshots I took. https://imgur.com/a/CWkeP https://imgur.com/a/CWkeP