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Track the Artemis II mission from your Mac
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A macOS menu bar app built with SwiftUI that tracks NASA’s Artemis II mission in real time, showing mission phases, countdowns to key lunar flyby and return events, mission elapsed time, crew, live telemetry context, and a space-themed Earth-Moon-Orion timeline. Uses publicly available NASA mission data and timeline updates.
PH · launched Apr 6, 2026 · 439 upvotes (top 12%) · 1 view
Niche: macos menu bar utilities · 312 launches, 20 in the last 7 days ▼ -33% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Space
- GitHub
- Menu Bar Apps
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Could you build this?
Yes This is a standard native macOS menu bar utility built in SwiftUI that queries publicly accessible NASA APIs and telemetry endpoints to display timers and mission milestones.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 130 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #30 of 131 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 88 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Artemis.fyi · hn · 2026-04-04 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- Artemis II Moon Mission Simulator in the Browser · hn · 2026-04-05 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Where Is Artemis? · hn · 2026-04-05 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- NASA's Swift telescope's 22 years in orbit, rebuilt from its archive · hn · 2026-11-06 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Live Sun and Moon Dashboard with NASA Footage · hn · 2026-04-28 · 224 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- ISS Live Tracker · ph · 2026-09-14 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Made a little Artemis II tracker · hn · 2026-04-02 · 154 upvotes · similarity 0.43
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