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SpaceX Stats
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- quackware 11y agoCool stats and description. One issue, in "Merlin 1D Inflight Operating Time" the paragraph text is cut off and I'm unable to scroll to see the rest of it.
- CapitalistCartr 11y agoI get to see the Website for a brief second, then, "You need Javascript enabled to view this website. Try again... " even though it displays at first. Nonsense.
- Zikes 11y agoFlash Of Styled Content?
- lukealization 11y agoDev here. Good luck creating a countdown site without JS (and no, meta-refresh doesn't count).
- rst 11y agoAt least one stat shown is already out of date; the quickest turnaround so far was 19 days, from launch 15 (DSCOVER) to launch 16 (two comsats). They will improve on this if they get the TurkmenAlem launch off today. Agreed with others on the funky scrolling, btw: violating user expectations about how common UI actions ought to work is a bug in your site, not a feature.
- lukealization 11y agoDev here. Quickest turnaround was actually 14 days last year, but yep, that needs fixing. Scrolling will be removed in next release.
- jaggederest 11y agoThat javascript slideshow style is really un-user-friendly, especially with largely static content. It's not enhancing anything more than simply assembling the whole thing into a single page with normal scrolling.
- joshuapants 11y agoEven worse than simply changing the way it normally scrolls, it hijacks some gestures on OSX, so instead of being able to do a two finger sweep to get back to HN, I had to try a few times just to discover it was advancing the slides and not due to user error, then go to the back button.
- madeofpalk 11y agoMy favourite part is how scrolling loops around - scrolling past the bottom takes you back to the top
- vonseel 11y agoThank you. I hate these things... fancy UI shit that does nothing but degrade the UX.
- DeBraid 11y agoSomebody cocked the UX on this one, might as well be a PDF. I was going to post the same thing as above. Don't assume you know how fast I can read. Anything associated with Elon that wastes time is disrespectful of the man and his achievements.
- BinaryIdiot 11y agoUgh, yes. The only way I made it usable was to use the arrow keys on my keyboard but even then it's so slow.
- SoftwareMaven 11y agoAt least the headline wasn't, "He started SpaceX. What he did next made me want do dance."
- riffraff 11y agonice idea and looks pretty, but I hate the weird scroll hijacking.
- vinay427 11y agoYes, it's rather awkward on non-discrete scrolling systems like trackpads and trackpoints.
- Gravityloss 11y agoMore stats here for context, also in perhaps a better format: http://www.spacelaunchreport.com/log2014.html#rate http://www.spacelaunchreport.com/log2014.html#rate
- lutorm 11y agoThe number of dragon missions of 6 is incorrect, there has so far been 6 CRS flights plus 2 demo flights. "Vehicles landed" of 0 isn't technically correct. There have been several grasshopper and F9R-dev landings. The "quickest turnaround" also says -62 days for me...
- Mizza 11y agoThis is cool! It'd be cool to have a .json version of this page as well to see what other people could do with it! Stats are better with context - if you could do the same thing with NASA/ULA/China/India/ESA/etc it'd be even more illustrative. Also, +1 for getting rid of the scroll-assist. Kind of annoying. Slightly off topic: does anybody know if they're going to try controlled recovery of today's launch vehicle?
- lukealization 11y agoDev here. Will remove scroll assist in next release :). API, allowing you to pull raw data planned. No landing today, too heavy and going too far.
- jacquesm 11y agoWhen you report stats you normally also report losses, not just wins, that may be something to add.
- lukealization 11y agoAnd what losses have SpaceX had with Falcon 9 exactly?
- jacquesm 11y agoSecondary payload, the orbcomm satellite.
- cryptoz 11y ago[I'm not the dev] That's an incredibly small nit to pick, I don't really think SpaceXStats needs to go so far into the details there. Specifically, and especially because the decision to cut off OG2 was NASA's decision, not SpaceX's. While the initial SpaceX Falcon 9 engine failure led to the decision being made, the F9 could technically have delivered the payload to the desired orbit for Orbcomm. I think it's more fair to call that a bureaucracy failure than a SpaceX failure. Edit: Woah, okay, maybe I'm wrong. [Unable to reply below (no button)]
- roneesh 11y agoAnother example of great design married to great content almost totally marred by scroll hijacking.
- lordnacho 11y agoAre there astronauts in training?
- jacquesm 11y agoyes: http://www.americaspace.com/?p=16783 http://www.americaspace.com/?p=16783
- codeonfire 11y agoIt's easy to count hours worked, so it's not countless. It's also not a positive. Did space shuttle workers work unlimited hours?
- lukealization 11y agoDev here. Stop taking such a literal interpretation. Unless you're being purposefully dense, it's obvious that it's meant to be a figurative statistic to represent the hard work that's gone into building SpaceX. Many workers who I know work their asses off there.
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- mpweiher 11y agoThis is very cool. +1 on making it as static as possible, updated manually with a refresh and an optional small JS to update a figure inline. What I don't quite understand is the number of launches: When I have it set to "total", the large counter says 22, but the text says "As of August 2014, SpaceX has launched 17 rockets (all from its sole rocket family". Is the big number more current than the text? These should probably agree, or maybe a text explaining why they are different. When set to Falcon 9, the large counter is at 17, the text says "To date, it has launched on 11 occasions". So here there's no specific date, and the difference between the numbers is 6, whereas for the total it is 5. Looks odd.
- suanmeiguo 11y agoCan anyone tell me what web framework is used to create a website like this? I've seen many websites in this "scrolling" style, and I want to create one myself!
- usaphp 11y agoI think there should be a width limit on text content, it's incredibly hard to read text on a big monitor.
- manigandham 11y agoNice site and stats. Horrible UX with that scrolling...
- npunt 11y agoThis site isn't the only scrolljacking offender, even NYTimes has a subtle accelerate/decelerate that is counterproductive and annoying. Is there a greasemonkey script or the like that can disable scrolljacking? I recognize that means it'll probably break layout for many cases, but at least to avoid some (like NYTimes).
- butwhy 11y agoGood luck keeping your domain name.
- icc97 11y ago@lukealization: I like the site, I didn't even have problems with the scrolling, but your RSS link is broken and my email to contact@spacexstats.com bounced: Final-Recipient: rfc822;contact@spacexstats.com Action: failed Status: 5.7.1 Diagnostic-Code: smtp;550 5.7.1 Relaying denied
- lixman 11y agoLooks pretty, clean design