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Stories tagged “open source”

Every story in the journal tagged “open source”, newest first.

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Space Radar 2.0.0: the Perseverance rover driving across orange ground in Jezero crater on Mars under a hazy sky, with a panel of rise and set times for the Sun, Earth, Phobos and Deimos

Space Radar 2.0.0: What’s New in the Free 3D Map of Space

Stand on the Moon and Mars, read the sky stories of eight peoples, fly among 2.4 million more stars and watch them drift for ten thousand years, and make your own flights, films and paper models. The short tour of the biggest release yet, and what it still does not do.

10 Nov 20269 min read

Saturn and its rings, lit from behind, against black space

How It's Built

A live satellite map that tells you when it is guessing

Space Radar draws everything in orbit where it really is, for people who have never heard of an orbital element. Why I think a map of space has to be honest and kind at once, what that costs, and why it is free and open.

17 Oct 202611 min read